Echoes of Another’s Vision

This lovely image showed up in a Facebook group this past weekend and just stuck with me. Ariane Freisleben, Munich-born but a resident of Tuscany, has taken classes from all the greats. Her commitment to the medium — and how much she has learned from spending so much time with quality instructors — is quite evident in this translation of Jeffery Lloyd Dever’s backfill and construction techniques.

The design here is just fantastic. The stylized flowers make not only an interesting floral abstraction but they echo the form and surface treatment of the ‘vase.’ She has dots on the small sphere buds visually relating to the dots within dots backfill technique and the teardrop-shaped blooms are the completed form that the vase starts building toward but halts in order to open and hold the bouquet. I might have hoped for more saturated color in some of the lighter translucent teardrop blooms  but it’s a minor consideration as the joyful nature of the piece still comes across so nicely.

So lots of echoing here. A bit of Dever, a bit of dots and bit of drops. And, a great piece from it all.

Sage

3 Comments

  1. Ariane Freisleben on October 19, 2012 at 6:48 am

    Many heartfelt thanks for the beautiful words. I am very honored



  2. Sandra D. on October 20, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Amazing work!



  3. Sandra D. on October 20, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    JEFFEREY YOUR WORK IS LIKE IS COMING FROM HEAVEN TO TOUCH THE HUMAN SOUL.



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