Mother Nature Got It Back

I recently participated in another inspiring Media Blend class at MOCA with Donna Iona Drozda. Miss Iona just has a way of bringing out the best in all of her students, even when we don't recognize that it is there. My piece is a celebration of the recent "saving" of Pleasure House Point here in Virginia Beach. This beautiful piece of undeveloped property along the Lynnhaven River is now protected from development and open for all to enjoy it wonders of nature. My piece is titled "Mother Nature Got It Back" and I used window screen as the backing material. In it I used my hand-dyed fabrics, sliced and stitched together to show the different native plants in the existing habitats on the site, the fringed edges represent where the land meets the water. The hanging stick is red maple and mimics the curve of Shore Drive, the northern boundary of the property. Below the unbleached muslin area shows the nearest neighbor across the water, Bayville Golf Course. Colorful prayer flags spelling out the title drape from the red maple stick. Brown embroidery thread weaves through the screen representing the intensely developed area that abuts Pleasure House Point, and reminds us that because of human intervention nature hangs on by a slender thread. Mother Nature and all of us thank the myriad people and groups who helped acquire Pleasure House Point to preserve and protect it for the our future.