I just noticed this is the 500th time I have posted- it does not seem so long. I also meant to notice my 60,000th visitor but that has also been and gone.
I have started putting in the stitching to what i am temporarily calling " all the sweet perfumes of Arabia..."- it is an allusion to the Lady Macbeth scene in the play of the same name by Shakespeare ( i did this play four years running- my last three years of high school and then in English literature at University, however this and the witches Double double toil and trouble-fire burn; and cauldron bubble, are about the only things that hang in my memory except ofcourse the plot ) . I am always amazed at how much stitching changes a thing. The unstitched spaces will probably be hand stitched. I like combining machine and hand stitching.
Debra asked what i meant by Alternative Visual Tradition- it was a phrase I picked up out of my previous post that was reviewing a book which discussed visual hapticity in relation to film- it said that visual hapticity was something more commonly associated with the alternative visual tradition- which included weaving and embroidery ( and other things) and by extension no doubt quilting. I thought it was a neat phrase as so many quilters/quilt artists and textile artists are desperate to be part of the mainstream art world or "the" visual tradition ( though it is splintered in so many directions that to say mainstream is not a very accurate description)- to be practising in an alternative tradition can be played up and used- as something desirable - we need a spin doctor LOL. Another aspect of this is I like textiles for what they are and the more I think about it, that is what is important about the way I make things- I don't necessarily want to make paintings or visual images- although I do work with images-i like what happens when I work with cloth/fabric and stitching and combining cloth for effect, and it is part of the reason I have returned to hand stitching- that was how I started - it feels right to use the things I have accrued and to use the things I started with together.
Thank you for the explanation. I read that post. Got to the word "haptic" and stopped reading. (needed and still need the dictionary). Some times I have such a lazy mind.
ReplyDeleteHope your virus in improving.
I'm glad Debra asked the question, and now that you've explained it, I have a new phrase to work into my position of explaining why I like the word "quilt" versus anything else in my pursuit of art.
ReplyDeleteGoing to go look up hapticity (could come in use in a Scrabble game).
i don't think I have seen anything made by you in these colours before, but they are strikingly beautiful and this comes from someone who hardly ever uses blue. I look forward to seeing the finished piece.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to congratulate you on your 500th post. All of them worth reading. Thank you for all the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteHappy Postiversary!
ReplyDeleteI also think this current piece of work is stunning and look forward to seeing its progress. The shapes, stitching and colours so far are extremely pleasing.