Daily Practice – Day Two
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It’s the first of July. I have been travelling and out of Porto and out of action for the whole of June. So after a great 6 month planning session with Donna Wanderlust…. I am starting a ‘3o min ever day / start a timer / make a thing (any thing) / take a pic’
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This will be a visual feast of kantha embroidery research and found imagery from around the web and the world. I was doing a little kantha embroidery – to clarify, kantha can just mean running stitch, but I think of it when it is dense and continuous – forming patterns from the negative space. Before
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The photographer Kati Horna took beautiful and surreal images. When she was just 25 years old, she was commissioned to capture photographs of the Spanish Civil War (1937). Her view and depiction of what was happening within communities at the time of the war are thought to have drawn a lot of attention to the
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Experiencing first hand this morning the power of stitching to bring people together. A lovely zoom with East London Textile Arts and – a project re-imaginging the work of Madge Gill. An open brief to stitch or explore her work in some way. Madge worked in such a way that it connects people. She used
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Looking at my personal values of art, design or craft.
Sooo… this is something I have trouble with but am really interested in. I know I could get into really in-depth research about the difference between art design or craft… but I need to dissect it myself by just writing some notes and hoping it forms something coherent.
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I’ve set myself a difficult task. To write about something that I don’t really understand. Networks in art, data patterns & unknown Inca mysteries… quite a mysterious title, ey? I don’t even really know where to start. Oh yeah, this YouTube video introduced me to the mind boggling fact that seemingly random and completely desperate
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(A long title, but there we go.) I have the affliction of a textiles addict. Excited by every new shiny technique that I come across. I know I’m not the only one, I’ve read about others. Others who see something and long to learn how it is made… others who see a technique and instantly
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I find it very difficult talking about my art work. So here is a start…Awkward though it may be. I started making art again; away from university, away form any structured group and probably 10 years since I had allowed myself to regularly practice and nurture my creativity. After working pretty solidly for people and
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three artists that use 3D & spacious elements in their weaving & textile art
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