{"id":4311,"date":"2018-05-24T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2018-05-24T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T17:06:04","slug":"frida-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/frida-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost twenty years ago I made an art quilt about Frida Kahlo, hoping it would be accepted into a show at the then Thirteen Moons Gallery in Sante Fe, NM, which at the time was the premier gallery for art quilts in the country. I did a lot of research about Kahlo in preparation and, like so many others, became fascinated by her story, her strength, and her art.<\/p>\n

\"Xochitl\"

Xochitl<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92000 Elizabeth Fram, 46 x 37 inches, Silk and Cotton\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The name Xochitl comes from the Aztec.\u00a0 Xochitl was the princess of flowers and art.<\/p><\/div>\n

Making the piece was more than a little challenging, earning its share of blood, sweat, & tears. It was a lot of tricky work to figure out how I could best combine machine and hand-work in order to achieve the effects I was going for, and I learned a tremendous amount in the process.<\/p>\n

\"Xochitl

Xochitl, detail<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92000 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

The happy ending is that it was accepted into the exhibit and became the first textile piece I ever sold.<\/p>\n

\"Xochitl

Xochitl, detail\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a92000 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Week before last, our model at life drawing came dressed as Kahlo. She is an unabashed fan, making no secret of her admiration for the artist while setting a striking likeness.<\/p>\n

But as the session wore on it was Kathryn’s spirit, not Frida’s, that had us all under its spell as we drew and talked about the mythic painter.<\/p>\n

\"Kathryn\"

Kathryn<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92018 Elizabeth Fram, 24 x 18 inches, Graphite on paper<\/p><\/div>\n

On A Different Note_________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I appreciate the sentiment of this blog post from Modern Mrs. Darcy<\/a>\u00a0and think you might too. It’s so easy to keep one’s nose to the grindstone, making each day a perpetual puzzle of trying to fit more in around everything else, maybe it’s time to rethink that approach.
\nPlus, her helpfully annotated\u00a0Summer Reading Guide 2018<\/a>\u00a0 is now available.<\/p>\n

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