heart or cloud

sound & still-motion response using original artwork by molly tillotson

silence / 1

sound & still-motion response using original artwork by cecilia ramon

silence / 1

not

silence
ghosts breathe
blankness
snow
an emptyness or forest
trace of birds or cloud
wind ...

silence

graphite line
drawn / stillness

blank paper
frayed lines
shadow and light

3 works by molly tillotson - notes

elemental - that is what finally emerged from my experience living with molly's work. three objects - water & color & glass, pale stone, and rough cloth. frayed brown fibers, worn carving / frozen honey, and stained paper. i moved the two sculptural objects around my room - placed them next to different colors & light. window light, lamp light, fire light, red, brown, blue, & green. their brown / pale / canvas & burlap textures were like a gravitational force. their textures intensified and blurred with the color. i used the threads / filaments from the cloth to create a color film "heart or cloud". i took many photos of the honey stone to see how it blurred into color & light - a smooth glacier melting & spinning stained by the sea around it. elemental ...

glacier dream

i had a dream
there was a door or a heart
a cloud or white cloth
& wind
past mountains
& sea
a relentless flowing

or it was an ancient glacier
stripped of ice
barren rock
worn smooth & pale

ghost stone
ghost cloth
ice dreams
infused with light
once soaked in color
now sand or
balding sun
cool moon

a nest of dreams
lost language
brief vision
lonely hands
a memory

& extinction
ancient seagull's landing
ancient ship

thread & ink

the window the dream the color
flood of color
waning light

pale stone pale cloth
far away long ago
there was a glacier
now stone
there was a cloud
now frayed ...

molly tillotson: 3 works

3 -
watercolor &
stone &
cloth

pond green water & pale translucent stone
burlap woven & frayed
thread unfurled & drifting
hands

shadows
dimly lit & winter night
luminous morning
pale ice & summer green
cave cloth

red table & 3
window & 3

not snow but rough grass
or glacial ice

not blue but smooth, pale surface
opaque & bending
surface slowly turning

textured - rough & smooth
2 small sculptures
& watercolor
infinite lily pads
lily pads spilling across canvas
infinite pond
sky

water with color - pigment fluid
elemental forms ... water, stone, fabric

not lake but color
not iron but bone
stone like bone
ancient human
cloth or hair
or glacier

cloth dream & stone

search for iron

a wanderer
a stone
a cloth

the forge the fire
the blacksmith
welding elements
fusing metals

now a pond
silent &
pensive
still water or
glass

not iron
brown jade
the color of sand
a simple sack of feathers

a frayed sack of feathers
threads woven into branches

& flight
wax wings
pale stone

or cloud

elemental / 1

homestead & bees
in a forest ...
near the great sea ...
or lake ...
near iron ...
bent compass.

Elemental work - a close, working relationship to material
- a worker's relationship to materials.

Sensual & pragmatic - hammer, fire & brush.
Glacier memories from Antarctic summers
And heat from welder's torch. Her work has a fluid strength.
A miner or spider or water bearer.
Fragile iron.