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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…
Say there is a pile of cheese sticks on the floor, and on the wall next to the cheese sticks is an artist statement saying that the cheese sticks represent the decline of the North American diet. The size of the pile indicates the expansion of the collective waistband, its position on the floor communicates…
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 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…