Something’s in the Kitchen

This is the third in the series of four books for which I used rainbowy tie-dyed fabric as the base.  For this one I fused together strips of novelty cotton prints, then stitched in a crosswise pattern to keep them secure. 

I knew I wanted some kind of text over the fabric, but I couldn’t decide what to write.  I obsessed about it. Nothing seemed right. I mean, if it’s going to be immortalized in a work of art, it should be profound, right?  In the end, I just stopped worrying about it and wrote the first piece of drivel that came to my head.

Something’s in the kitchen
Stirring up the cats
Making a Soufflee of
The weevils and the rats
A wicked little creature
Not everyone’s delight
It has all the makings of
A delicious, wicked night.

After I came up with the poem, a skull with crossed fork and spoon seemed to be the only appropriate cover art.  I cut the skull out of black drawing paper, and the utensils out of silver paper.

I don’t think I’ll do this many layers of cloth again.  It was way too thick, and very difficult to bend around the head and foot because of the bulk.