I’m at the annual meeting and conference of Unitarian Universalists, General Assembly: this year, in New Orleans. Instead of bringing knitting to occupy my hands through the many meetings and workshops, as I have done before, this time I brought my sketchbook. The last three might be called Variations on a Theme by Brice Marden, since seeing some of his work at SFMOMA last week clearly influenced what’s in my head.
Sermons in Stones 
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June 23, 2017 at 9:09 am
Madeleine
You brought yarn, if not knitting!
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June 23, 2017 at 1:44 pm
Ohlmann Robert
Amy,
For the twisted yarn drawings, did you actually lay down with real twisted yarn and then draw what you saw, or did you make a pencil drawing ignoring over and under yarn transitions until you were finished? Then erased the appropriate crossings and copied the whole thing in ink.
Bob
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June 24, 2017 at 6:11 am
Amy Zucker Morgenstern
Hi, Bob! I love that people are seeing yarn in these–an image I hadn’t even considered consciously. This is what is so great about putting art out there. It takes on meanings I hadn’t even perceived. So, no, there was no yarn–it was all out of my imagination. Your second description is fairly close to what I did, though I did make some decisions about the overs and unders as I went. The first one was done in ink from the start, and it was so hard to anticipate transitions that I did the next one in pencil so I could change my mind about what went over and what went under. I could do a slideshow of the process, if I keep drawing these. –Amy
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June 23, 2017 at 11:13 pm
Pamela Anderegg
I really love your work. Though I don’t always understand it, it always intrigues me.
Thank you.
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June 24, 2017 at 5:12 am
Amy Zucker Morgenstern
Thank you, Pam! I’m glad you love it. I also don’t always understand it. (Maybe that should be “I don’t ever completely understand it.”) I start with an idea or image I want to explore and it takes me to into uncharted territory.
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