Patricia Maxwell

Age of Aquarius

Age of Aquarius Tote
Age of Aquarius Tote

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Statement

Description:Once in a Blue Moon one designs a work of art that defines one's passion in and for life. Knitted & felted with gorgeous colors emulating water, earth & sky coming together & existing harmoniously as the astrological belief that the world is in the Age of Aquarius-an age of love, light & humanity. This work is filled with symbolism with the bobbles around the bottom edge symbolizing the planets; up into the turquoise with the silver beads as stars in the sky & still upward to the rows with fashion buttons and a large pendant which emulates earth & then back into the bobble like planets around the top edge. The top edge is beautifully felted with two ICORD loops on each side of this piece and they hold two ICORD handle twists. The interior carries on the theme of Aquarius with two lovely pockets and a fashion fabric in purples covering a twice reinforced base for beauty, strength & durability. The entire work is surrounded with the beads, bobbles , buttons & pendants on the front & back. Everything becomes unified. All of our differences, all of our dualities mix together like the fragrances of a flower garden, with all the varieties of flowers adding their bouquet to the overall mix until they are inseparable . Each individual flower remains distinct & individual, each one's fragrance is unique & discernible yet joined together in unity with the others in a wonderful mixture that is the fragrance of life's garden with water as life's source. This work was commissioned & the colors specifically chosen but giving me creative carte blanche. Additional photos are available at my related website: textileartists.org. Thanks for stopping by.

Artist Work


Roles

Artist, Bead Artist, Designer, Fashion Designer, Fiber Artist, Knitter, Needleworker, Photographer

Related Website

http://www.TextileArtists.org/Knottyla... 

All Work

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Age of Aquarius
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Some Enchanted Evening
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Santa Fe Sunset
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Carnival
Days Of Wine And Roses
Cha Cha Cha
Black Beauty
Calypso
Lake Harriet the Bandshell and Rosegarden
Over The Rainbow
Party Doll
Blues On Parade
Flamenco
Cleopatra
Autumn Daze
Monet's Garden
Brown Bag It
Loring Park, City Lights At Twilight
Fringe Benefits Chic Shawl
ETUI (French) (Needlecases)
Broadway Melody
September Song
ETUI (French) (needlecase)
Moulin Rouge (CAN CAN DANCE) (OO-LA-LA)
Machu Picchu
Baggar Vance
Pony Express Messenger Bag
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Organic Pottery (three nested sets with trivets)
Schloss Neuschwanstein Castle (needlepoint)
English Rose Garden (organic pottery)
Delightfully Denim (bag)
How Tweed It Is
A Mother's Heart (handquilted wallhanging)
Beyond The Sea (organic pottery set)
Harvest Splendor
Puttin' On The Glitz
Daisy A Day
Aphrodite
'Out Of Africa'
'Le Vie en Rose' (organic pottery set)
Wisteria 'Lilac Rose'
St. Tropez (organic pottery)
Jellicle Cats (medium tote)
'Skimbleshanks' (medium tabby tote)
'Jennyanydots' (medium tortoiseshell tote)
'La Boheme' (felted sweater shoulder bag)
Citrus Grove (felted ruffled basket)
'La Boheme' (felted accessory case)
Rococo Revival (felted/embellished clutch)
Peaches & Cream (felted/ruffled basket)
Rococo Revival (accessory bag)
Solresol (knitted/felted/embellished bag)
Je t'adore: C'Est Magnifique
Bourbon Street (Mardi Gras Bag)
Desert Wildflowers Bag
Spring in Giverny (Monet landscape bag)
French Baguette Bag
Gypsy Tambourine Felted Bag
Rhapsody in Blues (felted bag)
Vase with Flowers (still-life felted bag)
221b Baker Street, London
'Starry Night Tote'
English Tea Garden Party
'The Great Gatsby' (bag)
Grapes of Wrap
Vines & Berries (wine sack & wine caddy)
'Covent Garden' (felted bag)
Black Tie Affair (beverage sac & caddy)
Amazing Grapes (wine sac & caddy)
Sunflowers Tote (Van Gogh still life)
Out of Africa Shawl
'Pirates of the Caribbean' Messenger Bag
Sac Au Vin (wine sac & wine caddy)
Delightfully Denim (vintage bubble bag)
Artist's Palette
Piet Mondrian Felted Bag
"A River Runs Through It"
Zuni Wedding Bowl
The Rose
Misselthwaite Manor
Moon, Marsh and Meadow
Divinely Victorian
Sophisticated Lady Shawl