Urban Icons has been languishing unattended or amended for many months while I was otherwise busy with teaching, the ATHA Biennial and the 20th anniversary of the McGown Workshop that I direct. NOW, that all of those things are completed I am able to get down to some serious business on this fiber art piece. It has been on my mind and I have been able to mentally try out some of the changes I needed to make. The first photo below will show the rug as I left it nearly a year ago.
IN the next rendition you can see that I had begun to hook and sculpt the faces around the perimeter.
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You can see the progression of sculpting from the initial hooking long loops then cutting away to reveal a face in relief.
The next photos show more of that technique.
The next photos show more of that technique.
 The loops are SO long you are unable to distinguish the facial features until I begin trimming the excess away. |  Once the trimming begins then the features flesh out of that subtractive process. |
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