One of Many Original Techniques & Processes - Innovative and Experimental Mindset:
Similar to my rock painting which evolved into painting faces on canvas, those faces also appeared as subject matter to be painted on lampshades and then further developed into repeat pattern design...
There have been many such convolutions in my art exploration; here is another... I was teaching a class of very young grade-schoolers. I made up a project for them to fold and cut their simple construction paper to make symmetrical holes to create an interesting paper object, to which some added simple decoration via markers and others chose to create protrusions as well as weaving through the holes.
As they began to be occupied with that project and needed no further assistance, I collected the scraps of their cutouts to keep room and their workspace neat. I had a small pile of these symmetrical cutouts and for the heck of it, I started gluing them on opposite sides of a construction paper frame until I filled the see-through paper. I hung it by the frame on the back and then this idea evolved...
What if I were to paint canvas and cut it similarly to create a more sturdy see-through hanging? And so I did. Over and over I created many of these some large and some small. Then I started stacking layers of these separated see-through canvas shapes within a wider frame. Sometimes I added wire and other things to the hangings. I experimented further by forming a basic framing structure of sharply cut pieces joined and then further added something like a regular collage with a subject matter atop, like say florals...
Then one day I looked over and saw this large white lampshade and decided to try this same cut-out scheme applying this procedure and another whole new technique was born. On some I even added additional things, like the collage process (only not paper); I added things like artificial tiny flowers or glitzy Christmas bits to the cut out lampshade compilation. This is one of many iterations that started with leftovers from a Kindergarten class I taught...