I’ve been meaning to post for a while.  A student of mine and I speak about it a lot; if you don’t see people for a while, it means that you sometimes have less to say to them, not more. You no long have the fabric of the day to day in common, yet really, what have you done that is bigger than that? All those changes are incremental- often it is thus… a long story, or nothing at all.

SOOO

I vacillate I have much and yet little to say.

First I am trying to organize a fibre themed gallery show, I  will show with the Images de Femmes, and I spent the last week of my Christmas holidays producing. Producing what?? hard to say yet…I’ll let you know…

Second  -swapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswapswap

why yes,  that IS my  insane stash -just short of hoarders, in every possible hiding spot in my house… and???

AND Marie Sterlin  & I am organizing a swap to use it up. Lots of stuff stays sitting around waiting to get used even though my best efforts are to recycle, give stuff away etc. If you may suffer from a similar craft-stash ailment join us. we will swap and craft at cafe Matina

De stash event ou Troque ton stock ( de laine et al) - come on down Jan 21 2012

Third- trying, really trying to get back to writing on creativity,  keep getting that broaching idea…but we will take our time…

meanwhile…

 kurosawa

Hey folks, sorry it took so long to post this. Madness is the word. End of term, craft fairs every weekend, and final performances and exams for theater and karate. My kids are such stars.
So I am happy to say that we will crochet today & felt tomorrow from 1:30-2:30 at old skool ‘lutin’ crafts
Come to the polish church on st viateur
Check out the wares and make ornaments!!! Holiday spirit is alive and well in the mile end.

All ages workshop !!!

String theory
Most of my creative life has been spent in search of a vehicle for my communication. Honest and interpretable; appropriate and purposeful; but above all enduring. The piece… as it is seen off into the world would be complete, unchanging, direct in its message and yet dynamic. After years at this endeavor, both visually and literally, I have discovered my veracity in my most abstract method of all, fibre. The rich tactile flow; at the whim of both the elements and people’s appreciation of aesthetic (as opposed to the content), yet approachable with the most dynamic, open ended and undeveloped soft vocabulary.

who needs a lexicon when one sees such a happy little bandit/hero to steal your heart ?

Felted lanterns and vessels

It has been a few weeks since I, Jennifer Soup, Karine Fournier & Madeliene had the opportunity to speak at the Greasy Goose lecture series.
We spoke about yarnbombing under the cadre of “scraps”.
Now that I let the topic ‘sit’ …an ideal way to let the creativity steep I want to get back to the flow.
And thus I have happened across the idea of incongruence theory as a part of curiosity theory additionally to it’s applications in creativity.
In any case I AM both curious and creative in the moment of both finding and mounting a bomb. The urban palour so very counter indicated to the human psyche. We all wish to put our stamp down whether it is a green thumb that drives us, a great wall that entices us or just a softened edge.

Between the Etsy craft party, finishing up a few more yarn ‘tags’ and watching Kurosawa’s ‘dreams’ it has been an art-ventful weekend. Lots and lots of fodder for consideration for writing on art-process-and cleaving between the normative and the creative.

Thanks so much to Allison, Lisa, and Mary for setting up the etsy event.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/fiberalley – felt extreme hats and jewelry
 http://www.etsy.com/shop/JolietteDesign  -bags, laptop covers and cell phone cases

http://www.etsy.com/shop/crankyhayes – Paintings and pendants

This was prior to Sean Micheal’s talk on the ux and the catacombs under Paris.
My answer was, “you don’t, you let it go…”
I am thrilled that anyone would think my soft installations were covetous in value. I know I usually do. But the paradigm shift to knowing some person, unknown, unplanned, unexpectedly would have an urban ‘stumble upon’ moment far out weighs what I could derive from this product if it were produced as garmentry.
I’ve been reading up and the truth is the reification of creative value is all around us. There isn’t any creative value at all without an audience though.
I’ll set a few things free, maybe not even associated directly with me, to know that art has “flown” ephemeral.

As for the ux ( experience seekers x experience producers) they take it further…a Parisian underground- literally and figuratively they involve themselves in the betterment of the urban landscape taking on projects for their own sake, knowing they and their efforts might go fully un- noted.
It’s not about having or noting/ renown… The shift is the DO

Be inspired with your needles or your hooks to take the inside out into the wide world. Get more creative and push the limits cause you only need a little to catch a passerby’s eye.

On Saturday the 30th Szan went to some kind of figure skating demo with Magda, we thus had the school chums event at Latelier on Mayday. However Griphon and I enjoyed the postponed to April 30th Egg hunt at clark park. thanks to Marie Sterlin and her crew.

May first – oh such a perfect day
The girls were magnificent. Sweet, fun and enjoyed themselves both while crafting and at the ‘after party’

I hope to spend many more Sunday afternoons in Magali’s treasure trove of a shop. viva l’Atelier