Corrugated Blues

Corrugated Blues is constructed of interlocking braids of sisal. Sisal is a plant that grows in the tropics. Karen Chapnick uses the parts of its leaves and dyes it while working with it's natural colour. 

Experimenting with texture and colour is Chapnick's main concern. This work may be compared to colour field paintings where the artist plays with subtle gradations of hue and tone over a large enveloping surface. The influence of impressionism can also be detected in the flickering qualities of the colour patterns. Corrugated Blues shows the artist working with the wave-like rhythms of high and low. Bianca D'Angelo-Cerny, 1994.