Cotton Squared

by Eloise Schneider Mote

Title

Cotton Squared

Artist

Eloise Schneider Mote

Medium

Painting - Acrylic - Impasto, Palette Knife: Available On Canvas, Rolled Or Framed Print, Cards

Description

Beautifully set on a square canvas, these cotton beauties wave magnificently in the air, shouting, "Look at me! Look at me!" In Georgia, cotton still fills the fields twice a year - two seasonal crops. Passersby drive down the roads and watch the cotton begin as a green plant with pink, purple,and white flowers. Slowly the plant matures and the blooms become cotton bolls. And then the pickers come - big machines that comb the rows of cotton, pulling off the bolls and leaving fluffy scraps behind them. Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever walks behind and picks up the leftovers, much like Ruth followed the reapers in the fields of Boaz many centuries ago. A beautiful piece. Impressionist. Bright and colorful. Painted with palette knife and brush, giving the bolls dimension and depth.
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Cotton plants in the field - COTTON SQUARED - this is one of my best selling pieces because it is square - a little unusual and a very popular painting.
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I've lived in the south all my life: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi. Cotton is everywhere. We lived in Houston for a while - the 4th largest city in the United States - and even there, it was only a short trip outside the city and suburbs to fields of white.
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It is important that we support our farmers - those men and women that provide the bane of cotton products. I, for one, love the feel and weight of a cotton sundress to wear as I play at the beach or plant sunflowers in the back yard outside our 1930s house. Yes, I love modern amenities and I wouldn't trade my microwave in on a wooden stove by any means, but I am drawn to the cotton fields - the history that began in the field and progressed to that fabulous fabric that swings on my body, light and cool in the hot summer sun. For me, the cotton bolls are vintage America, the simple beginnings of what became a great industry. It is also a reminder of who we can still become -
entrepreneurs of internet companies and designers of equipment for future generations. In every great country, there was a historic beginning that served as the foundation for future growth.
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For me - just an old southern girl - cotton is an everyday reminder of that beginning.

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December 12th, 2012

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