Lisa Telling Kattenbraker

Batik on cotton Fabric- This series utilizes batik in a multitude of ways. I am blending together many learned techniques, and layering them one upon another. Many of these pieces are multi-layered in that they are pre-dyed using particular batik techniques to create a background movement and pattern that becomes the underlying canvas to the story. The wax and dye is removed many times and the imagery is batiked and dyed over the “blank” canvas of movement. Locally sourced wax is applied using traditional tjanting tools and brushes and removed multiple times in order to incorporate contrasting colors and create the layered “simplicity” in the imagery. The faces and bodies remain “open” (free from wax)- taking on all the colors throughout all the dyes to create figures that are a culmination of all the dyes and all the processes in order to represent each step, each emotion, and to represent a human experience beyond the constraints of physicality. The finished pieces have silver thread sewn throughout and are floated and framed under museum glass