Updates: March 2011

- I'll be one of two Jurors for an annual exhibit of local artists at Crossview Lutheran Church in Edina. This is in conjunction with a CIVA show there, "Picturing the Parables."
- Gave a short lecture yesterday on the Arts in Worship, at Northeast Community Lutheran. Link coming (maybe) and perhaps a few images.

Haven't been sewing much lately, and in a stubborn turn of events the creative mind refused to generate any worthwhile interpretations of the "watershed" theme (entry deadline tomorrow), instead preferring to collage in one of the sketchbooks. See below.

 Both have in common some birds, and some empty space. A place where something could have been said, but wasn't. Behind the pink square; inside the muslin pouch. Substitute images there -- empty nest. Emptiness.

But an approach to something too, my continuing obsession with found objects and dead things, detritus. Picked up or observed on walks. My private life at street-level.

rain quilting

I'm watching a video over on Stephanie Forsyth's Fiber Nation, in which she demonstrates free-motion stippling; and I immediately notice, since the volume is up, that the sewing machine makes a very comforting noise -- like rain falling, a sound we go without for months and months in MN. No wonder my son used to love being in the sewing room while I worked -- it's probably the warmest room in the house, and small, and that sound.... The "white noise" effect, so calming when is just a nice steady straight stitch.

drat

Four projects on the table all of a sudden...stalled out on the bed quilt for the moment...a deadline of This Saturday, another at the end of the month...and the journal blocks a bust too...my mind bouncing around and the past three days, not much to show except YET ANOTHER new journal (Japanese book Moleskine, mmm) and a sketch for one of the works in progress... I drive myself nuts, I really do. Drat.