Sing by Laurie Dorrell

Sing by Laurie Dorrell, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Collage painting on plaster by Laurie Dorrell

Let Go

Let Go, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Collage/ painting by Laurie Dorrell

bone locker by Laurie Dorrell

bone locker, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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The Bone Locker
This is an old metal cabinet I bought for 2 dollars at a yard sale. I needed a place to keep my bone collection that I use in my assemblages. I have two dogs that are always eying my collection! I spray painted over found objects to give the cabinet the 3-D look. I think it turned out pretty cool!!

digital journal April 1

digital journal April 1, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Digital journal pages by Laurie Dorrell

I am working on a digital journal using a day’s impressions and a photo-collage image. This is April 1, 2012

Prayer Flags

flags flickr, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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These are the flags from my Somerset Workshop Article 2009 Laurie Dorrell

The offering

The offering, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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collage/ painting

Among the Branches

Among the Branches , originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Among the Branches

This is another assemblage in my Fairytale series. Often find my art is influenced by the fairy tales that I heard in my childhood. I am making a series of assemblage created from my own fairytales that are told with my artwork. This fairytale assemblage is “The girl who lived with birds”.
There are mosses, roots, twigs, lichen in this piece that I have collected. The tree that the girl in the nest lives in is actually a dried cabbage root! I love to collect and dry roots and stalks from my garden. They are often very sculptural and durable.
The photograph used in the nest of a long forgotten little girl. I think she is glad to be out of the box and back in the world. She clutches a little purse and a handful of posies and is wearing a little pearl necklace. I added text from odd words to create a little poem that I added to the work it reads: among the branches of the tree, memory of voices recede.
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The Kafka Tree

The Kafka Tree, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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The Kafka Tree
This is an assemblage made of found items and images. I altered an image of Kafka and put it in side a tin box that is turned in to a window with the help of my metal cutting tool. With wire I secured it to a tree limb. I added strips of text from a book on the psychology of Kafka and used vintage bulbs that hang from the branches like strange fruit. On the top is a Metamorphosis beetle that I embellished with metal paints. The piece is ready to hang with a wire on the back. The size is12 inches tall and 8 inches at the widest point.

Seek detail

Seek detail, originally uploaded by moonwild.

Seek

I added a string of turquoise stone gems and a tiny metal Buddha figure. I added the mica covered text… Seek…on the base of the tiny statue.

Seek

Seek, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Seek

This is another from my raft series. I used pieces of nature that I find in my walks. I am very conscious of nature’s ecology so only use pieces that are in logged areas. The works include mosses, lichen, twigs, feathers and other little pieces from the woods. I mounted the bundle on a raft of alder bark and then tied around the piece with vines and string. I added a string of turquoise stone gems and a metal Buddha figure. I added the mica covered text… Seek…on the base of the tiny statue. Check out the close up detail photo too!

Simply on Earth

Simply on Earth, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Simply on the earth

This is another from my raft series. I used pieces of nature that I find in my walks. I am very conscious of nature’s ecology so only use pieces that are in logged areas. The works include mosses, lichen, twigs, feathers and other little pieces from the woods. I mounted the bundle on a raft of found wood and then tied around the piece with vines and raveled twine. I added a string of stone gems and a tiny white stag deer that I once found floating in the ocean. I added the text… simply on the earth…on to the bottom. The piece is easily displayed with a copper wine hanger on the back. It is 8 inches tall, 3 inches wide at the base and the branches flare out at the middle to 8 inches wide.

Oh World Egg Hear Me

Oh World Egg Hear Me, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Oh World Egg… Hear Me
This is an assemblage I created from great old industrial stop/ start switch box with old wire curling from the top. I painted the cloth covered wire with red, black and white paint. I added weird rusted wires and coils to the work and a little doll hand reaches out of the top. I have added strange text and images from a crumbling remnant of a book that I found on the street. The side has prickly iron thorny pieces I found in a old burnt house. The work stands strongly on its heavy metal coils

Darkness Peering

Darkness peering, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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Darkness Peering
This is an assemblage/ found object necklace made from antique velvet fabrics, silver chain, rosary beads, a tiny key and other interesting findings. An image of Edgar Allan Poe with the text quote “Darkness Peering” is covered with silver edged mica.
I crocheted the soft chain from a burgundy silk ribbon. .

She Preferred the Company of Ravens

She Preferred the Company of Ravens, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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This is an assemblage/ found object necklace made from antique velvet tapestry fabric, rosary beads, buttons, strings, beads and leaf findings. An image from one of my collages, of a girl with a raven on her head, is covered with mica and sewn on to the work. This piece was all hand stitched.
The sewn piece is a 3 by 3 ½ square. It is 14 inches long as it hangs from the rosary beads. The piece pulls over the head.

Window Tree

Window Tree, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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The Window Tree
This is an assemblage/ found object necklace made from antique velvet fabrics, brass chain, strings, and bird and findings. An image from one of my photographs of a lonesome winter tree is covered with little house made of mica and sewn on to the work. This piece was all hand stitched.
. To wear the necklace I crocheted a chain from soft variegated ribbon. The piece can be tied on with the ribbon to whatever length you like. The focal piece is a 3 square. The necklace is 18 inches long as it hangs from the ribbon.

The Bird Tried to Wake Him

The Bird Tried to Wake Him , originally uploaded by moonwild.

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This is an assemblage mounted on a 7 inch rusted and aged metal cog. I uses plaster molded doll and a little bird and a chippy painted frame the main focal piece. A jewelry piece hangs from the bottom of the frame. I backed the doll piece with a cool holey round piece of metal. I backed that with a page from a vintage physics book so that the numbers show through I used more text from the book around the metal piece.

I Wonder Sometimes

I Wonder Sometimes, originally uploaded by moonwild.

collaged head!

A flash that revealed the invisible world…Rilke

A flash that revealed the invisible world…Rilke, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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This is from my new series of assemblages/ icons created with antique decorative metal door plates. I made a Frozen Charlotte like doll with a Plaster of Paris mold. I used great antique jewelry pieces and gold gilt paint. I used a found metal fashioned piece across the back of the work. I added the above quote by Rilke and put a tiny piece of map peeking through the key hole. The figure has tiny insect wings. The door piece is 7 inches long and 2.5 inches wide.

An Immense World of Delight

An Immense World of Delight, originally uploaded by moonwild.

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This is an assemblage I created from great found metal piece with a center hole just right for a window. I backed the window with a tree image framed with pieces of broken glass. I added a hinge hanger to the back for easy display. I use a real antique Frozen Charlotte German bisque doll, a piece of glimmering seashell, a tiny bottle with a secret message. Little birds, that had escaped from a wedding cake, were wire wrapped to fly around the work I wrapped the base with gauze and added a quote by Keats The work is 5 wide by 10 inch long.

We inhabit the world of dreams and mountains.

We inhabit the world of dreams and mountains., originally uploaded by moonwild.

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A fabric assemblage made with some of my hand dyed and stamped fabrics and mixed with other blues.