Maumau dress...for Audrey

Description

When I turned 40, I decided to complete a series of paintings titled 40 flags. I sewed 40 canvases, grounded them with matt medium, and used oil paint to create my symbolic flags. I call them flags in need of formal representation for very informal and hidden mysteries that I encountered growing up. I started out with basic patterns to represent a each "country" of growth, then added imagery and painted layers to build onto the meaning. Each represents a part of growing up as a woman in the U.S. from the early 60’s to the present.
Maumau is about my grandmother..this blue dress was one of her favorites, the wallpaper background reminds me of our dinning room, where our Sunday dinners were eaten th a big formal dinner.
The flags hang on the wall, by two grommet openings at the top, or you can frame them.

16” W X 12.5” H
Oil on sewn and stretched canvas

Hangs like a tapestry

Added on Nov 14, 2009