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Angel or Wrath? Or Woman of a Certain Rage?

 

Okay, I know this looks weird, but the creative urge can take you in all kinds of strange directions, can't it?  The prompt for day four of Abstractuary was 'Totem'.  I googled it and the meaning I went with is 'a person or thing regarded as being symbolic or representative of a particular quality or concept'.  That got me thinking about a wall hanging I made a while ago - and previously blogged about on here - based on textile art by Ulva Ugerup.  (Look her up if you've not heard of her.  She's fab.)  Ulva made a wonderful textile work called 'Angels of Wrath', and I used that as a basis for my own stitched piece.  So, for Abstractuary I thought I'd make a kind of stylized doll similar to my stitched angel of wrath.  
She's got a black felt body, the front with red material appliqued on it, a felt oval for a face, and is stuffed with fabric scraps.  I used thin copper wire to make the crazy hair, and threaded beads and broken jewellery and a single earring to hang down below her.  I tried to make her expression look suitably fierce!  Is she a wrath-filled angel?  An avenging goddess?  Or just a middle aged woman furious at the world in general?  I'll let you decide. 

  

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