tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34436593389990311652024-03-14T09:47:38.074-07:00Fiberart MusingsKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-64298714794950456572018-09-16T14:38:00.000-07:002018-09-16T14:40:35.095-07:00Orphan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When my Dad died several years ago, his sister cried that now she was an orphan. My Aunt was in her 80's when she said this, and it occurred to me every one of us has our own very personal relationship with someone who has died, whether it be a parent, child, sibling or friend. We have experiences unique to that relationship that no one else can share.</div>
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When someone close to us dies, a connection is lost. We are the only one left with those memories, the jokes we shared, the not so funny times we got through.<br />
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The thing is, we all have gone through similar experiences, we've all felt loss, grief, pain.<br />
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There's a golden thread running through this work, connecting our individual grief with the rest of the worldKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-59958773521467145042017-01-27T11:27:00.000-08:002017-01-27T11:27:46.342-08:00Open the Window I'm continuing to explore the concept of personal loss, how it affects the people left behind, how it affects those on the periphery, the coping mechanisms we all employ to deal with it.<br />
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We all want to be available to help someone suffering from loss. Often, that person isn't ready to receive this comfort. While a window may be open, they construct barriers and roadblocks to prevent our help. Maybe they are angry, maybe numb, feeling guilty, or just uncomfortable with sharing what they are feeling personally.<br />
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We need to persevere.<br />
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"Look for the helpers in times of tragedy" Mr Rogers advised. "If you look for the helper, you'll know that there's hope"<br />
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The sixth installment in my Loss series is called "Open the Window". It's 7 feet tall, 32 inches wide and 32 inches deep. Made of strips of silk organza with windows stitched in them, wire, and rusted organza with hand stitching.<br />
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One of the common emotions when you lose someone is anger. Anger at the person you lost, anger at family, your friends, caregivers, anger at yourself. It can come from a feeling of helplessness for the pain you're having, feeling fear at what your future will be like without them, frustration that you are unable to change things, and then guilt for feeling angry.<br />
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I know it's normal, part of the grieving process, something we have to go through, but that doesn't make it any easier.<br />
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I've witnessed this deep, visceral anger, and while making this piece I thought about all the times I've seen it<br />
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Making angry art is really difficult. Putting myself in the place of those who have suffered deep loss feels fake. I can only look at it from the outsideKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-22419372024008277032016-04-26T10:15:00.000-07:002016-04-26T10:15:36.957-07:00Catching Up<br />
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I have a crazy busy life right now, but I wanted to take time out to share what I'm up to. Tomorrow, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=paula+chung+quilts&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Paula Chung</a> and I are packing up 18 pieces of art from our <a href="https://aviewwithin.wordpress.com/">A View Within</a> series, and shipping them off to the <a href="https://events.fit.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7RxSYy2o1uovCrLpNzgbtyuHC%2BQMHX9OFXa3mpfq92J6G0bXVlzKzo">Ruth Funk</a> Center For Textile Arts in Melbourne, Florida. We are sharing the venue with SAQA's Radical Elements, which makes this a really dynamic exhibition. This exhibit runs May 28th thru August 27th, and I will be doing a Gallery Talk on July 23rd at 1pm.<br />
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The following week we are shipping 35 pieces to the <a href="http://www.crafthouston.org/exhibitions/upcoming/">Houston Center for Contemporary Craft</a> for an exhibit that will run May 27th through September 3rd. Paula and I will both be giving a Gallery Talk, and possible some other presentations the weekend of June 9th thru 12th.<br />
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With a little prodding from <a href="http://deborahsstudio.com/">Deborah Boschert</a>, I'm trying to put together a piece for the SAQA auction. No promises on this, but it's kind of relaxing to work on something small.<br />
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Paula and I are continuing on with our work, and we are thinking about refining it a bit by working on one area in more depth. Along this line we are focusing on several X-rays gifted to us by our friend Betty. They are images from the 1950's, a series of head, jaw and mouth X-rays.<br />
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And I'm very excited to be in this new book by Martha Seilman, "Art Quilts International, Abstract & Geometric", available in the fall on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Quilts-International-Abstract-Geometric/dp/0764352202">Amazon</a>. One of my pieces in the book will be traveling to IQF Houston in 2017, then IQF in Chicago, and possibly sone other venues.<br />
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While all this is going on, I'm continuing to work on my <a href="http://www.karenrips.com/portfolio/loss/index.html">Loss</a> Series, trying to depict the feelings of anger and frustration that go along with a physical or emotional loss. The art has been stagnating on my design wall, as I'm finding it very difficult to convey what I want to say. Right now it's too neat, and I think loss is very messy, so I'm going to take a deep breath and start messing things up.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-32161144816417606242016-01-22T10:49:00.000-08:002016-01-22T10:49:37.015-08:00Multi taskingI always work better when I have a few projects going on at the same time. It puts me in my zone, which is my favorite place to be. Right now I'm stitching on some of the <a href="https://aviewwithin.wordpress.com/">A View Within</a> work, and this kind stitching is pretty mindless.<br />
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Up on my design wall is an idea for the "Loss" series, with a few samples of what I want to do right where I can see them when I glance up. <br />
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Over on the window are some x-rays a friend gave us of a family member, taken in 1958. We are thinking about a miniseries, and when I take a break from stitching, I make some sketches,<br />
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and work on some color samples.<br />
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I work so much better when I take my time and ponder my ideas. I'm usually not happy with work that I rush through. I don't have any deadlines right now, so I'm just doodling along, in my happy placeKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-39965195727927701552015-12-19T14:15:00.000-08:002015-12-19T14:15:02.743-08:00More Mending<a href="http://www.carolsoderlund.com/">Carol</a> asked me to describe the layers, back to front, so today I photographed each layer. I also took a more detailed shot of the magnets holding it all together. <br />
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The bottom magnets are the half inch cylindrical, then after the first six, I changed over to smaller cylindrical, trying to avoid weighing the piece down when it's hanging.<br />
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Each layer has a circle burned out of it, then that circle is reattached with some loose hand stitching.<br />
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My thinking is that it will never fit back the way it was originally.<br />
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Here the photos get a little weird, I believe because of some refraction.<br />
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While we were photographing,<br />
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we both noticed<br />
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that we liked the layers<br />
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eight (below)<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-33714305520636072202015-12-17T16:42:00.000-08:002015-12-17T16:42:13.207-08:00MendingMy fourth piece in the Loss series is finished. It's called "Mending", which I think is an ongoing process we all go through when loss occurs. While working on it I was thinking about all the ways we heal, and it seems to me when we suffer a loss, we don't always heal. Sometimes we just change. When I think about mending, it's about putting things back together, but they never fit back the way they were. There's a new, different dimension, layer upon layer.<br />
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When starting a new dimensional piece, I'm learning to think ahead to how it will be displayed. I was discussing the possibilities with Ted in his office when I noticed some magnets on his white board. I knew I wanted the fabric to hang about half an inch apart and I found some cylindrical half inch long magnets on line. <br />
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I wanted the hanging device to be as invisible as possible, so I decided on acrylic and found a fabricator who drilled the holes for the magnets, and smaller holes to use for mounting it.<br />
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It turned out to be really easy to hang it this way, and it's easy to disassemble. The biggest problem is the magnets wanting to stick to anything metallic nearby.<br />
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I burned circles out, then hand stitched them back together<br />
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Below is a side view.<br />
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For whatever reason, my thinking on this series is somewhat out of sync. While finishing this up, I started thinking about the anger and frustration that goes along with loss, usually one of the first emotions felt. But I know there's no set rule for this. How to show anger? I'm not really sure.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-25375800446604046312015-11-08T17:25:00.000-08:002015-11-08T17:25:16.888-08:00SOFASculpture Objects Functional Art and Design was last week in Chicago, and Ted and I went to see what's going on in the <strike>glass</strike> art world today. It was a quick trip and we were able to get into VIP night thanks to my membership in Friends of Fiber Art. So here are my favorites, down and dirty, for you to enjoy.<br />
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My favorites in the show were the glass houses<br />
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The show was about 75% glass by my estimation. Ted was in heaven, he was able to connect with a few former teachers, fellow students, and artists he admires.<br />
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Chicago was fun as it always is. Good food, great museums, and the weather was perfect<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-38412449296919901902015-10-27T13:11:00.000-07:002015-10-27T13:36:25.853-07:00Losing TouchMy newest piece in the Loss Series is titled "Losing Touch". This series is conveying my thoughts on memories of a loss, whether physical or emotional.<br />
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There are four elements to this work, each one getting a little more fragile.<br />
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Hanging it presented some challenges, although it was a piece of cake compared to <a href="http://fiberartmusings.blogspot.com/2015_07_01_archive.html">this piece</a><br />
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The back is my usual heavily stitched and shrunk work, with the next layer consisting of netting with felted wool.<br />
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The third layer is organza with painted images, and the last, outermost layer is netting with some hand stitching<br />
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It's barely there, holding on<br />
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We started hanging it before the sun came up<br />
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I have been crazy busy with various deadlines, travels and art excursions. A few weeks ago I took a class at Arrowmont, in Gatlinburg Tenn. with Yoshiko Wada. In this class we explored ways of giving our work more dimension, and I was introduced to my first indigo dye bath. </div>
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I loved the immediateness of indigo, no waiting for the colors to set, just dip and rinse. I didn't love the idea of maintaining a dye bath, which involves feeding it a sucrose solution and generalized babying. I'm not sure how much of this I would do at home. The best part of the class was spending time with Yoshiko. She pushed me to experiment a lot more with my work, take some chances, risk some failures. I came home rather immobilized, not sure where to go with my ideas. I made a few samples, cut some things up, stitched some wire to old samples to bend them. Now I'm looking at these experiments while back in my comfort zone of stitching and dyeing. It takes time to move forward.<br />
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A few days after I was home, Ted and I went to <a href="http://www.cafam.org/">CAFAM</a> to see the paperworks exhibit. One of my favorites was <a href="http://susansironi.com/home.html">Susan Sironi</a>, whose carved up books were amazing. The piles of "leftover" paper was a testament to the work involved.<br />
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The second artist I was interested in was Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia. <br />
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When looking at his website, I couldn't find anything resembling this work. It fascinated me,<br />
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I think because it was simple and complex at the same time.<br />
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All that paper, woven together to make these shapes.<br />
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Paula and I have an exhibit going on currently at <a href="https://gallery.pct.edu/">Penn College</a> which has been getting a lot of play on Facebook. It was included in a "slow art" day, in which viewers were invited to study a piece of art for 20 minutes, then draw and discuss it, and it was exciting to see some radiology students recognize the images they were looking at.<br />
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Our <a href="https://aviewwithin.wordpress.com/">A View Within</a> work has a busy schedule next year, traveling to Oregon, Florida and Illinois, with a possible stop in Houston. I'm excited to see our art out in the public eye.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-10124374751705700532015-08-25T10:32:00.001-07:002015-08-25T10:32:45.604-07:00Continuing OnI'm starting to plan out a new piece in this series about loss, and this time I'm actually thinking about the hanging and display options before I become too deeply committed to it.<br />
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This piece will probably end up being 40 inches wide by maybe 60 inches long, and it will consist of 4 layers. The furthest back will be my usual textured work, the next one in will be netting with some felted shapes on it, then the third layer will be organza with the repeating image on it, and last will be another piece of netting with some hand stitching.<br />
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The sample I made is 5 inches by about 9 inches. My idea is to have these layers hang about 4 inches apart, with the back layer against the wall. since it will be 40 inches wide, I need to figure out what kind of unobtrusive hanging device would support that.<br />
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I cut some foam 4 inches long and attached the layers to see if that width apart worked for me. I like the space in between, but I think the netting may cling to the other pieces. I could probably solve that problem with some small magnets at the bottom of the piece.<br />
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Next, I cut some foam trying to figure out how to attach the piece to the wall and have it come out 12 inches to support the layers. I thought about curtain rods, but I would really like to do this with acrylic so the hanging system doesn't distract from the work.<br />
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I love this kind of problem solving.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-81447609759832140112015-08-08T10:57:00.000-07:002015-08-09T20:32:46.742-07:00The Empty SpaceThat's the title of this piece.<br />
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It's another is the series I'm working on involving loss.<br />
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This side view shows that it is about 6 inches deep, including the 3/4 inch thick felt I mounted it on.<br />
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A new grandson arrived this week. Jack Norman joined older brother Holden<br />
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Our daughter Julie lives in Big Sur, a very idyllic place.<br />
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About a mile in from the ocean<br />
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On a dirt road<br />
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It's a nice place to visit<br />
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I knew going in that photographing this piece would be difficult. <br />
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There was no place inside that would work. Even though I have a really high ceiling in my studio, I would have had to put nails and screws into it, and I didn't want to do that. We started looking at my outside patio, figuring out when the sun hit the area, and saw a window of opportunity from about 6 to 9 a.m.<br />
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My brother Gary and SIL Val were visiting from Portland and we joined forces to figure this out. The awning was perfect for attaching the supports, and that rod in the background would hold the photo paper.<br />
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A close up, and then it became to bright, so we needed to postpone till the next day.<br />
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After some final untangling, we started shooting.<br />
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A breeze began blowing and in an attempt to calm it down, I held this wind break up.<br />
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Here's the official shot, and the piece is titled "Bundle of Sorrow".<br />
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With the side view.<br />
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I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. I think I have a few issues to work out, including how to ship it if it does get into an exhibition. The whole endeavor cost about $300, and it might cost that much to package it correctly.<br />
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I was worried when I started this that it would be a one hit wonder, but I don't think I'm done with this subject yet.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-83093135341167214842015-07-19T17:10:00.000-07:002015-07-19T17:10:49.549-07:00The Installation, Part 2Now that I had the support system I needed, I had a couple of issues to work out. How high should I hang the support? <br />
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I didn't want it to be eye level, but I didn't really want you to crane your neck to see it. I wanted the support to be an non entity, it's only a support. I ended up choosing what looked pleasing to me, which was 7 1/2 feet.<br />
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How did I want the shapes to hang? Each shape is suspended by fishing line, then has another piece of thread hanging down. I wanted the shapes to hang at various heights, and the threads hanging down to end at various distances, some touching the ground, others higher up. I was up and down the ladder at least a hundred times trying to make this look spontaneous. In the back of my mind I'm thinking that if this gets into an exhibit, how will I ever ship it? Should it be able to be disassembled completely? If so, how do the exhibition helpers know how to put it back together? I decided it need to be semi permanent, meaning the shapes stay attached to the structure, but for shipping I pile them on top of it. (I clearly haven't figured this out completely)<br />
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The third element to this piece is some small paper bags I made using brown paper and encaustic wax. The baggage we carry. These will be on the floor, with some of the strings hanging among them. <br />
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As this piece came together, my heart started resting. Everything I wanted to say was there in front of me. The struggle with loss, the letting go, the hanging on, the constant connection of always remembering, but memories fading.<br />
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Next week, I'll blog about photographing an installation. that's assuming I can get it done by then.Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-38259286156261950872015-07-13T15:45:00.000-07:002015-07-13T15:45:00.998-07:00The Installation. Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been thinking for a couple of years now about doing a three dimensional installation. The challenges involved in this are numerous, and I have a new respect for artists to work this way on a regular basis. I'm blogging about it as a personal reference of the stages I went through to develop the art.<br />
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This work is based on emotion, and it took me a long time to work out how to show feelings in artwork. I have often felt emotion looking at other artist's work, but how to express that myself was a mystery. I started by keeping a small journal, writing down words and phrases that came to me, and over time I was able to start writing down ideas to try to express those words.<br />
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It was important to me to not bash you over the head with my thoughts, but rather to have you look at the art and decide for yourself what you think it means. I will say that the art is based on loss, both physical and emotional.<br />
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Once I decided on the basic idea of how to make this work, I needed to figure out the finer points of actually making it. I knew I wanted an overhang supporting the basic structure, but I didn't want it to be the focus of the work. I started with a plastic grid from Home Depot, thinking I could wrap cheesecloth around it and it would look all floaty, but it looked like plastic with cheesecloth wrapped around it so I gave that up. The basic structure, by the way, is several lightweight shapes made from stiffened cheesecloth, to be dangled from the overhang.<br />
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I ended up with a piece of metal from a fabricator, 2' x 4', that I wrapped in vinegar soaked cheesecloth to rust.<br />
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The next step was to figure out how to attach the shapes to the supporting structure. I knew I wanted to use fishing line for that, so I stitched about 2 yards of fishing line to each shape. I had the metal fabricator drill holes in the metal every 4 inches, with the intention to threading the line though to the top of the the support.<br />
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But how would I attach it once I threaded it through? My first idea was to glue two 1/4 inch layers of cork board together on top of the metal. It was a good idea, because the fishing line seemed to stay in place where I pulled it through, so I could easily adjust it.<br />
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I glued it down and put a few pieces of fishing line through.<br />
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Then watched it pop up again, even after clamping it. Not a good look, so I abandoned that idea. By this time, my husband Ted started getting sucked into this project, and he came up with the idea of using these small jewelry thing a ma bobs. They clamp the fishing line, are adjustable, and just big enough not to fall through the holes.<br />
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This was my major struggle with this piece. How to have it hang freely, be able to dismantle it, and use small parts. Next week, I will talk a little more about the project as a whole.<br />
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It seems like I only blog when I have an upcoming event, which is not good at all, so I'm going to try to get back into blogging once a week. That being said, I do have an upcoming event! I'm going to be giving an artist talk at the Monday, August 3rd at 7pm at the <a href="http://www.mpqg.org/">Monterey Peninsula Quilt Guild.</a> My talk is "Finding What's Meaningful Through Experimentation", which is going to focus on how I was able to figure out what I love to do.<br />
In addition to the work I am making for <a href="https://aviewwithin.wordpress.com/">A View Within</a>, I have been working on some more personal work. I'm trying to work in three dimension, and I'm trying to delve into loss, separation and broken connections, without hitting you over the head with emotions. It's not easy, but it's very satisfying.<br />
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I'm going to do a series of posts about working on an installation, and all the challenges that brings.<br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-4730602190048382042015-03-04T16:46:00.000-08:002015-03-04T16:46:07.920-08:00Busy, But Not With ArtI have felt like I'm in limbo land the last few weeks. After returning from India, I had several projects to work on.<br />
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I made a busy book for my grandson Holden, who's 1 1/2. I included zippers, buttons,<br />
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and his favorite, buckles. It's been so long since I've sewn 5/8 inch seems, I kept checking myself, sure I was doing everything wrong.<br />
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I needed to shorten the pants on a few outfits I bought for the granddaughters, Riley and Marlee<br />
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And the best thing was a trip to Phoenix to welcome our new granddaughter, Zoey Gwendolyn<br />
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and to play dress up with her big sister<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-66795164867058344462015-02-07T16:26:00.000-08:002015-02-07T16:26:35.851-08:00India and Sri Lanka part 2The last of my people pictures. Ted and I were two of only four non Indians to attend this Pongal Festival in a small village in Tamil Nadu. Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated on January 14th each year<br />
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There is a parade led by an oxen, with lots of dancing.<br />
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Even the local police let me take their picture.<br />
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Around 200 women were lined up in two long rows on the street, boiling milk in these pots, allowing it to boil over, then adding rice, vegetables and sugar cane.<br />
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The women seemed genuinely happy to see us and encouraged us to take part, stirring pots and shaking hands.<br />
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Our guide told us Indians tend to want to look somber for photos, smiling afterward<br />
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They loved posing in family groups<br />
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The dots are placed on her face to ward off the "evil eye"<br />
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kayaking on the river in front of a houseboat. Probably going to market<br />
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washing her dishes in the river<br />
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Muslim school girls<br />
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A contrast between young and old<br />
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Muslim men. In a few days (If I ever get over this jet lag) I'll post a few more pictures<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-14727986643251545772015-02-06T14:02:00.000-08:002015-02-06T14:02:07.018-08:00Southern india and Sri Lanka, part 1If you follow me on Facebook, you already know I was in southern India and Sri Lanka for three weeks. It was amazing and whirlwind and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. We've started sorting through the pictures and I am posting them, little by little. Some you may have seen already. Today and tomorrow I'm focusing on the people.<br />
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It seems like everyone in India owns a motorcycle, it's certainly the easiest way to get around. The most people we saw on a bike were five, two adults, two kids and an infant. none wearing helmets. <br />
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This is at the flower market, and I would say the majority of men wear this kind of dress, with the younger men tending towards pants.<br />
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The back of a truck is seldom empty. I found everyone in India incredibly friendly. If you smiled or waved, they broke out in great smiles, shouting hello.<br />
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Women in the back of the truck this time, all wearing saris. I don't think we saw any women in India in anything other than saris.<br />
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Priests at a temple where people were bringing them offerings to pray for something they needed.<br />
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A line of people at another temple, waiting for a free meal the temple would provide to a certain number (depending on the size of the temple) of people. This was not for beggars, but for pilgrimages.<br />
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Another priest, waiting to put a red and white dot on my forehead<br />
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This little boys first haircut, given by a priest after many blessings and gifts.<br />
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It was such a wonderful, busy, intense trip, and a beautiful culture, so different yet in many ways the same as ours. More pictures tomorrow<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-50608004745773323252015-01-07T12:53:00.000-08:002015-01-07T12:53:04.613-08:00Donation Piece FinishedLooking back, it seems I promised you progress reports on the making of this piece. I did remember to take pictures, but never blogged about it.<br />
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I decided to start out with a piece of commercial black fabric that I knew would discharge to orange. I made my lines with soy wax, then discharged with diluted bleach.<br />
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I like the way this looked, but wanted a little subtle color difference, so I dye painted parts of the circles and the bottom area to darken it.<br />
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After stitching and shrinking, I added a little hand stitching. These pictures were taken with my little camera, below are the truer colors<br />
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And the detail shot. This is called "On The Line", and it's 12 x12.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-43939202265392792592014-12-02T10:25:00.001-08:002014-12-02T10:25:49.917-08:00Fiberart For A CauseI have been invited, along with 99 other artists to help Virginia Spiegel raise money for the American Cancer Society. The goal for this fundraiser is to raise $10,000 in one day! Virginia's brilliant idea is to match 100 patrons with 100 randomly assigned pieces of art, for $100.<br />
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We've all been affected by this terrible disease, and I feel privileged to take part in this worthy cause.<br />
In the next few months I'll be posting progress on the artwork I'm producing. Feb. 4th is the big day. For more details, click <a href="http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/FFACThe100Fundraiser.html">here</a>, and thank you for your support.Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-68505375168990741622014-11-13T13:45:00.000-08:002014-11-13T13:49:59.164-08:00Final Exhibit Pictures and ChurchillThere were many artists whose work I like and neglected to photograph at World of Threads Festival, but these two I'm happy to say I did remember. <a href="http://www.trinaperrycarlson.com/">Trina Perry Carlson</a>'s work "Cocoon" included calfskin baby shoes, madrona branch, cotton and plastic. Her work is about reclaiming the lost and discarded. This was very piognant to me, and I thought it interesting that she mounted it on the reverse side of the canvas. Another artist in the show did this also.<br />
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<a href="http://www.msiegel.ca/Welcome.html">Melanie Siegel</a>'s large piece "Winter" was outstanding. It's made of ribbons and threads very condensed, but hanging loosely. When I looked up close, I saw many decorative ribbons I have collected in the past for various projects, and here they all are making up this shimmering piece of art.<br />
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Before we arrived in Toronto, we spent some time in Churchill, on the Hudson Bay, looking for polar bears. There's no road to Churchill, you can fly in or take the train, which is what we opted to do. It's a two night trip, which I was a little leery of, but we ended up in a large sleeper car and we loved it.<br />
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The scenery was spectacular, different than anything I've ever seen. This was the view out our train window.<br />
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The Tundra Buggies hold about 40 people, but there were only 20 of us, so we all had window seats, plus we had a "patio" on the back, for those that wanted to freeze while taking the perfect picture. Ted and I immediately made friends with the couple that brought the Bailey's on board to add to our morning hot chocolate.<br />
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We saw lots of mothers with two cubs. They stay with her until they are about two. These babies were about 10 months old. <br />
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I'm not sure how many bears we saw, some people said 24, but we went out two separate days and I'm sure some of them were repeats. The full grown male bears can weigh up to 1500 pounds, and they are fast.<br />
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We saw one female leap out of the tundra and race away from a male who was getting a little to close. This time of year the bears are in a "walking hibernation", waiting for the ice to form on Hudson Bay so they can hunt seals.<br />
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Churchill has around 800 residents year round, which swells quite a bit during polar bear season, and in the summer during Beluga whale season. This time of year the town is on high alert for bears coming into town, and they have a jail, were the bears are kept for 30 days before being helicoptered out if they wander in. Bears are rarely killed, they use flash bang ammo to scare them away.<br />
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The environment in Churchill is permafrost, and it is really beautiful. The green in the picture two above is lichen, which grows most everywhere here.<br />
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The landscape is stark<br />
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and lots of shallow estuaries. The tour group we went with, and I assume other tours, did their best to educate us about the bears. We had researchers from various organizations talk to us while out on the tours, and they were collecting data to try and keep track of the population. One of our drivers was a former zoologist from the San Francisco zoo. I will leave you with this live <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/polar-bear-tundra-buggy-cam">polar bear cam</a>, which can be really interesting or incredibly boring.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-91589569608707928842014-11-07T10:14:00.000-08:002014-11-07T10:14:17.841-08:00World of Threads Festival 2014I've just returned from Oakville, Canada, where I was able to attend the World of Threads Festival opening. This venue is different from anything I've ever exhibited in before, in that some of the work is shown in a few gallery rooms and the rest is in hallways. Another difference is that the curators chose several pieces by each artist to exhibit together, which made it a very cohesive show.<br />
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A few blogs have talked about this show already, including <a href="http://judys-journal.blogspot.com/">Judy Martin</a>'s Nov. 2nd posting and <a href="http://piecesandresistance.blogspot.com/">Pat Pauly</a>'s current post. One of Judy Martin's pieces <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><br />
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"Not To Know, But To Go On" , was featured in one of the galleries. If you have read Judy's blog, you know about this work, which is about marking time. It's really stunning.<br />
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<a href="http://jimarendt.com/Home/">Jim Arendt</a> is an artist I've been following for a while, and it was so nice to see his work in person. <br />
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This piece is called "Meghann", and is made of denim, rivets, and zipper. Isn't that amazing!<br />
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This work by <a href="http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews/113_karen_goetzinger_14.html">Karen Goetzinger</a> is "A State of Transparency", and it was hanging in an alcove, where<br />
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we were able to walk all around it. She used the Korean Pojogi method of stitching this, and it was very ethereal, moving slightly in the breeze.<br />
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<a href="http://www.anadiosdado.com/index/">Ana Diosdado</a>'s piece "Communication Breakdown" caught my eye as it's the kind of three dimensional work I want to be doing. <br />
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It seemed to float down, and make beautiful patterns on the wall.<br />
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"Skin Deep 1"<br />
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These three pieces are by artist <span id="goog_1834445639"></span><span id="goog_1834445640"></span><a href="http://patlouckstextileart.wordpress.com/skin-deep-my-solo-show-in-portalegre-portugal/">Pat Loucks</a>, and are made using plant and earth pigments. Like a lot of the artwork, this was suspended from the ceiling and allowed to float in front of us. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><br />
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As I said earlier, this exhibit was different than anything I've been in, and it was exciting to see the artwork displayed in such an interesting way, and to see so much dimensional work in the show.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821013559380002293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443659338999031165.post-40357302399595766142014-10-19T10:47:00.000-07:002014-10-19T10:47:24.014-07:00On the RoadTed and I are hitting the road in a few days for a two pronged vacation. First we are traveling to Churchill, Canada to see the polar bear migration. Churchill is a small town of around 800 people on the Hudson Bay, about a thousand miles north of Winnipeg.There is a narrow window each year when the polar bears migrate through this town and we are traveling with friends to catch the action. We are loaded onto tundra buggies (seen in the background) and driven into the wilderness to see them in their natural habitat. <br />
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We've been planning this trip for a year, and when I found out I was accepted into the World of Threads Festival, the vacation expanded to include the opening. Leading up to the festival we are spending a few days in Toronto, soaking up some art, food and craft beer.<br />
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In my previous post I included one of the pieces I entered into QN, and here is the second. It's called The Journey, and is related to infertility. It's 60 x 38 inches.<br />
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Coming from southern California, I'm a little thin skinned, so I probably over packed for 30 degree weather. I know that's no big deal to those of you in the rest of the world, but I've got my long underwear, ski pants, boots, scarfs and wool hats. I'll be the one in the photos where you only see my eyes.<br />
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