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I sometimes wonder about the statements artists make about themselves, their process, their images. I was on a fibre artist’s site today and read the statement on her home page. Other than there was a lot of ‘self actualizing’ and flowery words it really didn’t say much about anything. I like to believe that…
I just finished my weekend at the Festival of Friends. It was a couple of very long days, but I was lucky to have good company. Financially the weekend was a bust. Lots of traffic, many conversations, compliments and interest, but not a single purchase. It is difficult not to focus on the lack of…
I thought for a little while on the title of this musing. My first thought was to title it In a jam, then came Jammin’, but I decided that I didn’t want to go with playing with word meanings. Instead I started to think about a conversation I had with a friend of mine this…
I have a renewed admiration for people who make new things from old things. New materials are easy: you buy them, you manipulate them, and you make something. Done. Making something new from something old is more like: you hunt down, scavenge, discover, clean, repair, prepare, sort through, organize, store, dig through, manipulate, and then…