RUG HOOKING, with a difference
Rug hooking has been a popular craft form in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada for generations. Most are depictions of daily life or happy recordings of the natural landscape. However, I have used this craft in order to make a commentary about our abuse of this fragile landscape. I have overlaid the rug hookings with graphic drawings on plexiglass panels that are meant to frustrate the viewing of the rug hooking beneath. I thought the humble and still rather innocent art of rug hooking, served as as strong dichotomy to the potential destruction of the subject matter depicted.
Rug hooking of the village of LaHave, N.S. Completed 2020. Overlaid with graphic drawing on Plexiglass and framed.
Wool rug hooking is 14" x 14", 2019
Car pollution is still a worldwide problem
This is a triptych of 3 separate wool rug hookings 14" wide and 9" high. The elimination of coal burning furnaces is high on the agenda for ridding our air of lung damaging pollutants.
Wool rug hooking 24" x 18", 2017
Wildfires are a threat to many world forests
Wool rug hooking 36" x 20". Felted bees with wings, 2020
Chemical formula of thiamethoxam, one of the toxic neonicotinoids used in pesticides that are killing bees worldwide.
Wool rug hooking 42" x 20", 2021
Debris and untold amounts of plastic are polluting our seas
Wool rug hooking, 38" x 50", 2018
"Bird Life", wool rug hooking, 36" x 24", 2023
Deforestation is the worst culprit in the rapidly declining number of birds on our planet, especially song birds. But tall glass buildings kill millions more, as do domestic and feral cats and even windmills.
