descendent cozen muslin

Spent the day today at housewifery-  trying desperately to catch up from the vacation and the weekend and having more and more to do.  Spent $100 at Petco so the doggies are set for awhile, hit the drug store, the bank, and ran a few other errands, all in a downpour that lasted most of the day.  At my first stop I realized my portable umbrella doesn't open any longer so threw it out, then had to make another stop to grab a new one but the parking lot was flooded, all the spaces left had a foot of water in them-  I resorted to putting on my emergency pedicure flipflops and wading into TJMaxx.  Yup, in Florida the emergency flipflops are more important than an umbrella even.  Got one but it was zip-tied shut so I couldn't even use it on the trip back to the car,  grrrrrr.

By 4:00 when I dragged myself home I collapsed soaking wet into a magazine (there are hundreds of catalogs here collected from the time we were gone).  The bed is still unmade, the dogs unexercised, and woman on the verge.  No, my yarns haven't arrived, and I wanted to get going on that by now.  Also I have to get to Boston in the next two weeks or so.  Yeah, I am having an anxiety attack.  Then thee is the awful tornado in OK that has me glued to the news.  

Let's talk textiles.

Using techniques of crochet, knitting, and knotting, Orly Genger creates

monumental sculptures with ropes, transforming the mundane material into powerful yet pliable installations.  Genger's work typically takes the form of abstract cubes, columns, and piles of monochromatic colors that reference the sculptural legacy of Donald Judd, Tony Smith, and Richard Serra.  But genger transforms those static shapes into soft undulating masses that spill over into spaces of the gallery like a tsunami of tangles webs.

Her labor intensive, physically demanding practice requires her to wrestle with enormous amounts of industrial fishing or climbing rope .  Genger's hand-crocheted abstractions blanket, consume, surround, fill, swirl, and inspire—prompting viewers to contemplate the limits of their own endurance and daring them to reconsider all they once deemed impossible.

   "Waves of Color" sculptures by Orly Genger in Madison Square Park, NYC.   (Currently)

And staying in the knit vein, São Paulo based artist Rogério Degaki shows us some large-scale oil paintings that look a whole lot like some of my favorite childhood sweaters!  Look closely-  the brushstrokes are imitating knit stitches.