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Pina, the film
After seeing Wim Wenders new film documenting the, now deceased, choreographer Pina Bausch, my brain was rushing to form words to explain-describe-capture this very powerful visual experience in 3D. Some of the adjectives that flowed were: fluid, animal, ecstatic, tortured, present, elemental, exalted. There isn’t much footage of her in fact as it is the [...]
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The Picasso Show
The Picasso Show viewed last Summer and Fall in San Francisco. It was filled with rich, colorful and strong imagery. Cleaning my desk today I noticed a quote I had marked down that had some significance for me: “He worked in multiple pictorial modes simultaneously”. While that might seem simplistic, when touring the exhibit that [...]
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Brand New Year
After some tribulations in the form of a stomach flu (eww…), I am back at the studio working on 5 things at once! In a way, it is sometimes easier to multi-task as a way to build the work energy up. Usually I start with some alteration. This time laundering and over-dyeing some of my [...]
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Tagged Catherine Bacon, Pat Henderson, The Santa Fe Weaving Gallery
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Ode to a Creative Fall in 4 Parts
Part 1. I signed up for Carole Beadle’s Fiber Sculpture class at College of Marin. Alex Moses, stalwart denizen of Carole’s class, revealed that attendance was low and we needed to help out. I had been needing a push to show up and really do some of my “art”. This was the perfect container for [...]
Paris and Bordeaux, France
After being in Italy with family, I had the great pleasure of meeting up with a group of 6 women that I have known since our 20s in Morocco. The rich cultural bonds of the place sealed our friendships and we have stayed in touch over time. More recently, we met in Oaxaca and dyed [...]
Atrani, Italy
Atrani is a working village on the Amalfi Coast south of Naples in Italy. It is nestled in between two craggy cliffs that are terraced with crops of lemon trees. The lemons are used to make Lemoncello, an aromatic liqueur that is one of the regional products of the area. We were gathered here with [...]
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Tagged Amalfi Coast, Atrani, bougainvillea, David Tannenbaum, Gelato, Italy, Lemoncello, Mediterraenean, Naples, Peppino d'Agostino, Ravello
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Spiral Motion/ Tattoo Me
The Santa Fe Weaving Gallery is having an invitational show to highlight Personal Mark and Contemporary Tattoos on Cloth. I have in this last stretch of my career used silk screening as a way to tell my “stories” in a graphic visual sense. The clothing has been all about mark making and so as such [...]
Workshop: Art from the Wastebasket
I was recently asked if I would teach a class, which I haven’t done in a number of years. Ideas started coming to me about what I would offer my students. To share what I most love doing and what style of working excites me right now is collage. I find threads and bits of [...]
Peasant Clothing
I like peasant clothing. When I say “peasant”, I mean clothing worn by indigenous peoples in their daily lives. There is such tradition represented in the ethnic wardrobe, stories and symbols of ancestors. Each village tells the long history of it’s place and time,and what that distinguishes it from the neighboring one. And all this [...]
After the winter
This winter was an involuntary creative hiatus. The rain was endless, the cold relentless. Finally, the sun has made an appearance and warmed our needy hearts. Deadlines sprouted. I always start my creative cycle by doing random simple things: altering clothes, cleaning the studio, and sorting through the stacks of bins filled with scraps and [...]
