Artwork Around

Hi All - Just a quick note to let you know that I have artwork in two shows this fall -

I have one newly-completed piece ("Walking At Night," see below) at the Tamarack Nature Center in White Bear township (Woodbury): "Studio Art Quilts Associates" Exhibition, Opening Reception on November 5, 2010, 5:30pm to 7:30pm.This is group show, presented by members of SAQA-MN.

I have one slightly older piece ("Keep Looking") in another group show of "spiritual works" at St. Martin's Table on the west bank, Minneapolis. This show was installed today. There will be two artist talks; the second is tentatively scheduled as a "closing reception" on December 18, 2010. More info as it comes to me. The show was curated by Lynnette Black and Betty Olson.

Who says I never finish anything!

"Walking At Night (I smell lilacs)"

18X24 inches, 2010

CLICK IMAGE for a closer view.

Appearing at the Tamarack Nature Center: SAQA "Art Quilts at the Tamarack" exhibit, Oct. 22-Nov. 30, 2010. 

(detail)

Found fabric and objects; commercially produced fabrics, laser prints, yarn, dryer lint, paper, beads.

Moonlight on the brightest nights allows some colors to come forward while most recede; pinks, blues, pale yellows, others. Birds, sleeping or silently watchful, rest in the trees. I walk a great deal and used to enjoy going out by night, feeling invisible, listening to sounds that the day conceals and imagining the lives behind glowing windows on quiet streets. I don’t feel safe anymore (as a woman alone) taking walks at night; but I have a friend who still enjoys that freedom, who sometimes reports back to me the sounds and scents of a midnight walk in the city. I sometimes dream about flying at night, safe above the trees, transformed and weightless.

avoidance

Rice Freeman Zachery has an insightful post on her blog, titled "Escaping from Your Fabulous Life" which addresses both creativity and our urge to run from it. And, hopefully, she's following this up with a podcast interview that goes into this subject of blocks and avoidance with more depth. Stay tuned...

I struggle with this a lot. I'm doing it right now: sitting in front of the computer instead of working on either one of the two lovely and satisfying projects all cued up and ready to go on the sewing table. I KNOW that three nights out of five I'm avoiding sewing not because my back is tired or my eyes are weak or any of that -- I do it for the reasons Rice begins to enunciate in her post -- because it's WORK to create, much more work than laundry, way more work than effing around on Facebook for hours at a time. And sometimes it's lonely work -- good alone time, but a kind of time I seem disinclined to value. Apart from the surfing, I do that other nasty thing - shopping. Shopping for thread, for a new lamp, for more fabric; for supplies I seem to require urgently, which then sit in the bag on the floor in the sewing room while I surf the Internet...Yep, a nasty truth, and it's true RIGHT NOW. Fortunately, I get to surf some more while eagerly awaiting Rice's podcast.

Damn.

another rainy day

It looks like Japanese paper, or leaves at the bottom of a murky pool. A television still-frame of a gale-force wind -- something falling, flying, frozen in ice.

In truth, these leaves are plastered by heavy rain to the roof of the bus shelter near the river, on Central Ave, and they looked so strange and lovely from beneath, in the morning light....

what's happening?

Recently ordered some hand-dyed remnants from Gerdiary and received my deceptively small padded package from Germany after just a week or so of waiting. Gorgeously dyed and textured scraps that are worn and soft, with a lot of "found" appeal... sweetly packaged, here pictured with a work in progress inspired by a class with Jude Hill.

state fair

One of several sketched from the State Fair last week. 8/28/10. More State Fair images and commentary here and also here.

fabric tattoo

http://www.sprayblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/spraygraphic_glenn-arthur-010.jpg

Getting ideas for a fabric-inspired Glenn Arthur-inspired tattoo... especially after the dream I had last night...