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"I stopped trying to be an artist as I understood it and just attempted to talk to people in a language they understood." - John Baldessari

Miriam Nathan-Roberts, my favorite quilt EVER.

Horrors:Your friends may be the source of more information than you need to know today. However, once you learn something, you are quick to integrate it with your evolving perspective. Don't try to hold on to whatever you thought was the truth. Be open to change and the day will roll along with greater ease. A flexible attitude is your key to living in harmony with others.

full view, embroidery wool on linen

close view

reverse side

  Cayce Zavaglia  Her statement:  I still consider myself a painter and find it difficult not to refer to these embroidered portraits as “paintings”. Although the medium employed is crewel embroidery wool, the technique borrows more from the worlds of drawing and painting.

Initially, working with an established range of wool colors proved frustrating. Unlike painting, I was unable to mix the colors by hand. Progressively, I created a system of sewing the threads in a sequence that would ultimately give the allusion of a certain color or tone. The direction in which the threads were sewn had to mimic the way lines are layered in a drawing to give the allusion of depth, volume, and form. Over time the stitches have become tighter and more complex but ultimately more evocative of flesh, hair, and cloth.

My work unabashedly nods its head to the tradition of tapestry and my own love of craft. Using wool instead of oils has allowed me to broaden the dialogue between portrait and process as well as propose a new definition for the word “painting".

Peter uses a comprehensive collection of found papers as his palette which are colored, patterned or textured by their printed, written or worn surfaces, with this media he 'paints' his collages. He shades with density of print and creates substance and movement with lines plucked from old maps or manuscripts. His pieces use mark-making in an innovative and humorous way to create

Joana Vasconcelos:Her work will be immediately recognisable to some of you for the volume and dexterity of crochet work. However she makes important sculptural pieces which pull upon a great range of influences, materials and disciplines. Her output is prolific, having it's roots in sculpture it has grown in scale and detail, range and focus. From outdoor installations to video, ceramic, fabric, and hair, from feminism, identity, globalisation to alcoholism, themes of intellect and kitsch.

Sandy's Website Feature of the Day-

 Richard Saja's Historically Inaccurate

Be Still my heart-  I LOVE this, probably because of all I do with toile fabrics (YUM) too.