In the tradition of Janet Morton’s Linden in Lace Tree, artist Penelope Durston, of Fitzroy, Australia creates these beautiful installation pieces using doilies:
She says “I did a bit of ‘doily-ing’ whilst I was down in Tasmania last August. Tasmania has incredibly very beautiful wilderness areas and (I) went down with the plan of taking a few photos in the bush but when it came down to it the moss and lichen and all were just so beautiful I had trouble doing much doilism- it seemed wrong somehow. This one I liked though… I took a rock from a beach in Devonport (north coast of Tassie), collected some doilies from an op-shop in Smithton (north-west coner of tas), stitched on in my room at Cradle Mountain (north central- world heritage wilderness area) and photographed it on a wild road just out of Cradle Mountain with rivulets of ice cold snow melt pouring over stones.”
Images courtesy of Penelope Durston
Stunning.
