Table with Tassels
August, 1994
photographed in 1993
Creative Director Susan Maher
Story by Claire Whitcomb
Her cats' names Kodak and Rossetti (named for Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti), offer a clue that Wendi is as fond of the camera as the paintbrush. Walk into her apartment and you'll see how she marries painting to photography: by hand-coloring black and white prints so her subjects seem both real and borrowed from a dream - the magnolia blossoms, for instance, in her still life "Overture III," (previous page). Wendi has collected so many tassels and trims, she organizes them by color in pottery bowls. The elements are at hand - but it's the play of color and shape that lifts them into art.