here is a cute little video of two of my students at the YMCA. Tajee and Vandell came to the studio early last week to help me get the materials ready for the Boys and Girls Club students...
check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh4kna9oSTs
This has been one of the most busy times yet! things seem to get a little faster every day, but I love and miss you all.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
AIDS QUILT
Lexi and I made this 3 x 3 foot square for the Savannah AIDS quilt project. It's for Lexi's uncle.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Cay's bell tower
***this is what I made for Cayewah to celebrate the beautiful NEW fibers building!
front and back.
front and back.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Things that I want to tell you
1. there are two old ladies who ride down Lincoln street to kroger in their wheelchairs. I see them every day.
2. Rico and Tony got adopted. They moved to Columbus Georgia. Tony was the first one that I taught to knit, his hands in mine.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Book Work
*** This is a list I made to help with the concepts which will become the skeleton of my INVENTED BOOK:
I feel like putting this in print will help me to organize things in my mind. Seeing something in print makes it real. This is compiled from looking back over the list that we made on the first day of school and a few things that I’ve just thought up in my own time:
What is a book? A reference to something, a process, a collection, a product of ingredients, a compilation or organization of ideas, a story, a universe, a chronology, documentation of a period, a place to hold things, a place to sort things
What is the purpose of a book? Validation, record, influence, pressing on, a database – garden of my dreams, thoughts, ideas and wonderings
What is a page? A confined space,
What is the purpose of a page? Transmission, an organizational structure, a place in time, a place to show what you harvested, to wonder why and answer it
What is a spine? Critical?, skeleton, is it defining or not?
What is the purpose of a spine? To be influential – “small towns are the backbone of American society”, vertebrae, eggs don’t have spines—proof of existence, of having been born
What is a cover? A preview, compelling, window, projection, summary, a highlight, an excerpt—made more glorious as a consciously selected point of focus
What is the purpose of a cover? To engage, to embellish, to protect?, to be protected
What is a section or signature? A pile, a bundle, an idea, a common thread, elements, ingredient, connections
*** I think that this is more analytical and directly academic-ish than anything I have done in the past 3 years.
1. Specimens of a working heart
2. Specimens of a heart working
(a heart breaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers)
(How could I keep from singing – traditional folk song)
(one day you’ll see her and you’ll know what I mean. Take her or leave her, will still be the same… from a NICKEL CREEK song.
*** proof of existence, of being born. Things that I collect so that when there is nothing to feel I have a back stock, a safely blanket, a buffer against feeling nothing. )
I feel like putting this in print will help me to organize things in my mind. Seeing something in print makes it real. This is compiled from looking back over the list that we made on the first day of school and a few things that I’ve just thought up in my own time:
What is a book? A reference to something, a process, a collection, a product of ingredients, a compilation or organization of ideas, a story, a universe, a chronology, documentation of a period, a place to hold things, a place to sort things
What is the purpose of a book? Validation, record, influence, pressing on, a database – garden of my dreams, thoughts, ideas and wonderings
What is a page? A confined space,
What is the purpose of a page? Transmission, an organizational structure, a place in time, a place to show what you harvested, to wonder why and answer it
What is a spine? Critical?, skeleton, is it defining or not?
What is the purpose of a spine? To be influential – “small towns are the backbone of American society”, vertebrae, eggs don’t have spines—proof of existence, of having been born
What is a cover? A preview, compelling, window, projection, summary, a highlight, an excerpt—made more glorious as a consciously selected point of focus
What is the purpose of a cover? To engage, to embellish, to protect?, to be protected
What is a section or signature? A pile, a bundle, an idea, a common thread, elements, ingredient, connections
*** I think that this is more analytical and directly academic-ish than anything I have done in the past 3 years.
1. Specimens of a working heart
2. Specimens of a heart working
(a heart breaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers)
(How could I keep from singing – traditional folk song)
(one day you’ll see her and you’ll know what I mean. Take her or leave her, will still be the same… from a NICKEL CREEK song.
*** proof of existence, of being born. Things that I collect so that when there is nothing to feel I have a back stock, a safely blanket, a buffer against feeling nothing. )
Thursday, February 26, 2009
New Books
*** just look at baby Barack Obama!!
it's finally looking pretty springish around here! (A little late, but I know that I really can't complain!)
I have to make two more books for my experimental book making class.
the first is a Visually Seductive Diagramatic Novellette (what a fabulous title, right! reminds me of the Dave Eggers book that i never finished: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
the second is an INVENTED book.... which may take on any form, which somehow illustrates-- ever abstractly-- properties of a book.
I've become very interested in collecting and sorting. Yesterday, my teacher Karen asked me, "so what do you collect?" I listed off a bunch of things - yarn, fabric, buttons........ but really, I just collect good things.
somehow this book will be a collection of good things. why do we collect?
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