Eggsistenial rumination in the temporary nature of artworks. I visited my favorite museum years ago where I saw a tour bus. On the destination sign it said, "Just Passin Through," which is exactly what I believe.
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| 1990 Valentine for the Earth Porcelain Mono Print & Colored Pencil Drawing From Finger Painted Desert Series While I had this off of the wall while we are painting the inside of the house WHITE I snapped a few photo's without moving this piece from its frame (the heart is colored porcelain pulled mono print) |
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| Truly the shadow of the bat after the raising for the day the umbrella is it's home just before he/she flew away |
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| I make this recipe from March/April 2008 Victoria Magazine |
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| Make Lemonade and cookies If you are ever having one of those kind of days |
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| Ducks to see They Follow me |
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| To where chimneys hold up the sky |
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| The brow fell down |
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| To the sacred ground |
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| A bridge to Don't ask why |
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| My Friend Charlotte Richardson used to say: "She was a thoroughly Modern Milly Trapped in trendy times." Me, too. I am a country girl, now, but, I always lived in a city. All three coasts. I love to comfort my minimalist art spirit with softness. |
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| This is part of my studio Won't you come for coffee? I just came inside from outside It is so beautiful today! |
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| Origami interlocking modules form partitions inside of handmade box The paper for the origami is from a digital painting I did for this purpose Printed onto heavy cotton paper Then folded and interlocked I am contemplating what sort of box I would like to make This is an experiment. I am thinking of a night sky with stars inside each cubicle would be something like a folded star a wire spiral a glass marble I really do not know right now. That is the fun of it. Where will my mind and feet take me? Who wants to join Sara and I on this excercise? We can find any box It could be on any idea Then we could share. |
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| It is Museum In A Box Time |
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| Consider this: What if this museum is a contemporary museum? What if it were a minimalist box? What do I put in this museum? This is what I am thinking about! Tell me what you would do! |
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| Letters and words? Or found objects? Or What? |
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| When will I finish? |
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| When I do finish, I will hold this to a mirror, So you can see me holding it in a mirror, |
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| It is the concept that means most to me. |
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| If I were to sit here in this rocking chair very long I would be covered in morning glories |
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| Noro Yarn and Jared Flood is where it began. I have worked with Noro for years and love to use it because it is never boring in that I am fascinated with the little dots of color and how they are manipulated in the dyeing and spinning process. I took some classes with Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton at the Purl Jam Retreat put on by Mosaic Yarn Shop in Blacksburg Virginia A few years ago and she has a book on Noro yarn with her patterns. I took her classes because of Noro. All the while I was thinking of painting. I have been a painter for most of my life. I paint on anything that is not tied down. Porcelain was my main medium for years. I painted small hearts using under-glazes of my interpretation of masterpieces with the figures as rabbits. You might have seen these in Galleries around the country and in Museum Shops I did sculptural boxes, as well.. But, when my father passed away something inside of me died. I began working with fibers. |
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| But, earlier in my life when Kaffe Fassett came out with his first book I found a great interest. My best friend Sara taught me how to knit right then and I knitted a huge triangular shawl from that book. I would tinker with this now and then but it took many years for it to really take. All the while, I still worked with painting, porcelain, origami, graphic design, I studied with Christopher Pane, illustration, back when I was taking classes for a degree. I took a summer session at a university on paper making and later I spent a few summer sessions at Arrowmont where I met Nancy Crow and Yosika Wada. These influenced my thinking about art and craft. I stopped showing my work about 15 years ago. I am now on my way out of my shell. Sometimes I feel a kindred spirit with Georgia O'Keefe in that I live in a remote area because I love nature and I need peace to work. I teach children art/craft that might not have this experience otherwise. I digressed a little here from my intention. How I got here. I continued with my fascination with color, all the while. I wanted to do what I do now but I just didn't know what THAT was. One day, I thought about painting with thread, so I tried it. I found a book, "Freestyle Machine Embroidery" by Carol Shinn I got out my new Pfaff machine and started painting with thread. I quickly broke that machine and found another that works great and is tougher with heavy use. I enjoy changing colors and layering and layering until I get what I feel. I showed some work in Charlotte North Carolina a few years ago but that gallery closed. I have had a computer since the early 1980's. For me it is just a tool. I taught myself how to use it and it is so easy to do things now. I design using Corel Draw and Painter. Now, because of this blog, I am trying to teach myself how to use a digital camera. Bear with me, on this, I want to take great photographs of my work and my life but I am very busy painting with thread. This article is in response to a fellow blogger who tossed the idea of us sharing HOW WE GOT HERE. |
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| Sometimes I would use a different yarn and do a different design that I would invent but it was always stripes of one kind or another and always about color the hours morphed into days and weeks and months all the while I found I was always thinking about painting. |
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| I thought about this all the time while I painted |
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| I thought about the push pull affect how color changes color. I considered background and foreground. I thought about paintings I have seen and how size and space and light affect a painting. I remembered visiting The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. I thought about the Van Gogh museum I visited in Amsterdam. I thought about all of the Vermeer paintings I have seen in my travels I questioned myself I wanted to know what IT is to me. This format is very difficult in that I can not make things move around like I want. I have spent a lot of time trying to get this right, but at this point, I want to go and paint with some thread. I will let this stand as it is. |
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| Bright Angel Peak at the Grand Canyon With my father was the inspiration for this Sculptural Box He bent down on the trail to pick up a twig of pine needles for me to put into this box It was in a show I had a long time ago It has been put away I found this cobwebs and all Porcelain under-painted then glazed the goony bird is inlay colored porcelain See Last Post |
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| This journey trying to find. . . things lost/things found not to lose it again involves digging deep finding cobwebs where once was beauty To live right here right now is it. is all How To Be An Explorer of the World ~ Keri Smith This is my starting point and SaraMuse who sent me the museum in a box |
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| Cocoon Fiber Sculpture One of Many Spread out into the world I wonder where they are? Porcelain wrapped with Old Linen and Lace Hand Stitched |
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| Photographic Collage Jacob's Ladder Box and The Chanteuse Paper Sculpture and Photograph 2010 |
