07.18.08
Gillian’s Starfish
When I first saw this blood starfish, I was thunderstruck, which probably says something about being a prairie person. As I looked, I sensed something showgirl-ish about this red Star flaunting her colours in the tidal pool. Even the pose said Look at Me. The barnacles transformed themselves, before my very eyes, into kleig lights, and I realized that what lay before me was:
*****And the winner is…..Ms Blood Starfish, starring in The Tidal Pool*******
I loved working Ms Starfish in variegated red silk chain stitch on teal Dupioni silk. I dressed her in red sequins and strung clear crystal beads for her jewellery. Her topknot is red seed beads. The barnacle kleig lights are shisha mirrors, the larger one stitched with coton perle and the smaller ones in cotton floss, all overstitched with silver metallic thread. The striped shells are bone and tan rayon floss in the woven spider web stitch. I found some mother of pearl lentils in my stash to add to her stage, along with French knots and seed beads.
