"My Father's Shadow"

"My Father's Shadow "
by
Thom Atkins

This piece started with some photos of a late fall landscape in Wisconsin and a phrase from a book I was reading about “growing up always aware of my father’s shadow”.

Having grown up in Minnesota, I have a fondness for the muted grays, browns and lavenders of the fall woods. Finding a piece of silk for the sky proved to be a challenge. I wanted that crisp, pale blue of a late fall sky and finally settled for a piece of slipper satin which proved to be more than a little difficult to bead on and there was a lot of beading to be done on it.

The shadow is two layers of fine tulle sewn down over beads to which I added a few more beads around the edge.

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