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Inspiration
by blackeyedsuzie at her website.
"Deidre"
"Deidre" detail
"Odette"
"Alice with the White Rabbit"
She plays with all sorts of different joints...ball, bead, thread....they are really quite ethereal.
My 3-Dimenisonal Design class ended the semester on a beautiful day with our inflatables project. The students mostly worked in groups, and had to create something that was at least ten feet in one direction. This are some of the results.
a dragon....
a bacteria....
a three headed creature....
The Rio Grande river....
This weird, horned, lizard-y creature....
The coolest yard art ever....
And I lap swam in an outdoor pool under the sun this morning. It was glorious.
So I have been reading my art crush blog, Lisa Congdon, recently, who writes great posts about what it is to have an art career. And how to do it. I found one of her posts recently that linked back to a column written by Cheryl Strayed for The Rumpus. It is brilliant. It addresses how to get out of your own way, how to do the work, how to practice. And it is a practice, this creative life. Just like exercise and meditation and eating well and taking care of oneself. You have to do the work even when you don't want to. Even when the work is shitty. You just have to work. This line sums it all up for every one of us creatives, even though it is addressed to a writer:
"Write like a motherfucker."
I am trying to.
was recently in Hi-Fructose magazine, which is where I discovered her. Look at these fabulously creepy photos. I have been thinking of creating little tableaus for my dolls that I could then photograph, and these have me so excited.
"Parsonage Parlor"
"Red Bedroom"
"Attic feet"
Much of her work flirts with fear and death. You can visit her website here.
Congratulations on the Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grant! It is well deserved.
I can't wait to see the work that gets made by Keren this year. She paints these lovely, large multi panel watercolors that are map like depictions of memory. Her use of color is really quite lovely. But I think one of my favorite parts are the negative space shapes. Please visit her website to see more work, and venues at which you can see it in person. She is booked out nearly three years!
"Unquiet Mind"
"Gray Matter"
"Gray Matter" detail
"Abstractions/Constructions"
I am so happy to be featured on one of my favorite art embroidery sites...mrxstitch.com! I have found so much exciting contemporary work on this site...it inspires me to keep making. Please take a look at it and browse the archives. You won't be disappointed. And thank you Jamie Chalmers for including me!
contemporary embroidery again. Look at these lovely images by Melissa Zexter I recently found.
She is a photographer who embroiders on her images. You can see some of her straight photographs on her website. They are just beautiful.