Sewing 🐝 #4 experiment for possible community project.

July 7, 2019 Cindee Klement

Sewing 🐝 #4

This piece is a conversation starter. The bee on this cap is the Bombus Affinis or commonly known as the Rusty Patch bumble bee. This bee was listed on the endangered species list in 2017. It is the first U.S. bee to be listed.

No planing just winging it. It explains why that antenna is so BIG

This fuzzy little body needs some wings.

After I finished and stood back I was not pleased. It was too busy, too much. Today I took out Impact. It feels better, I will live with it and maybe take out Endangered and the pollen and plant pieces.

Nine things that can help #savethebees

1. Plant a pollinator garden

2. Pull weeds or better yet go native, as many weeds and wild flowers are food for bees.

3. Do not use herbicides to kill weeds. Bees live in the ground and neonicotinoids kill microflora in bee guts, making them less tolerant to bee disease.

4. Find natural ways to combat mosquitos. Many urban beekeepers tell me their hives suffer when city mosquito trucks spray and when their neighbors install mosquito misting systems.

5. Become an urban beekeeper.

6. Buy local honey that is not mixed with corn syrup.

7. Provide a water source.

8. Buy local organic food.

9. Spread the word.

Sewing 🐝 #4 experiment for possible community project.

July 7, 2019 Cindee Klement

Sewing 🐝 #4

Nine things that can help #savethebees

1. Plant a pollinator garden

2. Pull weeds or better yet go native, as many weeds and wild flowers are food for bees.

3. Do not use herbicides to kill weeds. Bees live in the ground and neonicotinoids kill microflora in bee guts, making them less tolerant to bee disease.

4. Find natural ways to combat mosquitos. Many urban beekeepers tell me their hives suffer when city mosquito trucks spray and when their neighbors install mosquito misting systems.

5. Become an urban beekeeper.

6. Buy local honey that is not mixed with corn syrup.

7. Provide a water source.

8. Buy local organic food.

9. Spread the word.

Houston Flood Museum

January 13, 2019 Cindee Klement

A selection of my Hurricane Harvey Heroes monotypes and one of the Humanities pieces are now exhibited in the Houston Flood Museum.

https://houstonfloodmuseum.org/hurricane-harvey-heroes-and-humanity/

Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 6 “bringing home the bacon”

January 5, 2019 Cindee Klement

Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 3 bringing home the bacon

December 27, 2018 Cindee Klement

This sculpture is about the movement and the energy of rescuing livestock (a pig) during Hurricane Harvey. Today I have to decide on where the figure's weight needs to be to best balance the sculpture and express the energy of hoisting the swine to safety. The photos I took of Griffin while he was walking helped me committe to the foot placement. For the weight, I need new reference photos taken from each side. I am fortunate that my husband is always agreeable to posing for me. We wrapped a stool in a towel to stand in for the pig. Below are the new photos.

back view

Harvey Heroes- LIVEstock - “bringing home the bacon”

November 11, 2018 Cindee Klement

I stared a new section in my Hurricane Harvey series of Harvey Heroes. These will all be LIVEstock rescues.

I made the first one today,

“Bring home the bacon.”44” X 30” watercolor monotype — “Bring home the bacon.”
44” X 30” watercolor monotype

This is my first large monotype.
I have always wanted to go larger, but the temporary location of the Glassell School of Art did not have a big press. The pieces in this part of the series will all be 44” X 30” The Glassell printmaking studio has fabulous light, is super clean, and I love working in it. Alexander Squier, the head of the department and instructor makes sure everyone keeps it spick and span. This is the fourth time I have taken the class, print making is addicting and you need a press to feed your addiction. Plus Alexander is great.

Here is the ghost print. Something happened to the ghost. I am not sure what caused the mark that runs through the middle. When it dries I will try to fix it.

Before fixing-

The ghost - “bringing home the bacon”

Fixed

My work space in the Glassell printmaking studio

Me fake working for a photo op.

Cranes- through the window

September 9, 2018 Cindee Klement

A year ago, I made two works on paper; “Cranes Through the Window I and II”. The inspiration came when I stopped at a red light. Peering through the fogged and rain drenched car window, drops trickled down into tiny rivers, carving new landscapes in the glass. Beyond the miniature rivulets, dark and dusky clouds loomed in the shadows while others stood out in rays of hope. Through the puffs of gray, rooftops were stacked, and construction cranes delicately cross stitched in saffron and goldenrod garnished their capstones.

cranes through the window I 30” X 22” — cranes through the window I
30” X 22”

cranes through the window II30” X 22” — cranes through the window II
30” X 22”

When asked if I had any cranescapes that were not monumental in size, I realized I had not posted these two pieces.

A moment with my violinist and Aretha

August 16, 2018 Cindee Klement

https://www.facebook.com/502864924/posts/10156965644439925/

thank you for sharing cousin

Photos 🙏🏽 title of work? and artist statement ?

June 14, 2018 Cindee Klement

photos by Nash Baker

Earlier this week I received the images taken of my sculpture. There is great satisfaction seeing this piece finally photographed. Many many thanks to Nash Baker for taking the time to get the perfect lighting and angles.

I am struggling with the title and the artist statement. This is where I am presently on the Artist statement for the piece. Some possible titles follow. I would appreciate any suggestions

”___________” A three deminsional depiction of the the passage of time through energy, produced by playing contemporary classical music. I was inspired by a long exposure photograph of my cousin, Arkansas Symphony Concert Master Andrew Irvin, that captured multiple images as he played his violin. I was struck by the simple back and forth movements of a bow, composed of horse hair, drawn across strings that create emotionally charged sounds. In this piece, the music radiates off the musician as he plays, as well as off the strings of the violin, sometimes like a painfully slow waltz, and sometimes with the sharpness of a quickstep. Working on the piece during the last weeks of my father’s life I examined each movement of the bow and the wire/sound that comes off the violin. Some warble and then end sharply like a tear running down a cheek. Others gently twist into a whisper that fades into a broken heart, and some linger and then pivot like a murmuration of birds and is set free, each movement triggering a unique emotion. I applied the concept of seeing multiple images, and seeing music as emotional energy in three dimensions. The piece is built on a steel armature covered in plaster, recycled wire cloth, and baling wire.

possible titles

Documents of Time’s passage

Rhythm

Oscillations

“Lost in time”

Sonata

Rhapsody

Movement

Interval

dimensions of time

Intervals in time

Sonatas of time