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*when in uncreativeness...go to work anyway. work on something to remind myself about why i love to create.

*I'm all about the color and the texture....

*the thrill of creating with a new technique is amazing! (nuno felting)

* sometimes you just have to wait for the right time...( to clean, to create, to enjoy)

*the act of creating is a kind of spiritual practice!!!

* Periods of great difficulty are often followed by periods of great creativity.

*i love spheres, orbs, circles! especially made of wire: chaos of line into a beautiful simple shape.

*life experiences precede art

*i like pockets.

*with color- it's all or nothing.

*sewing paper can be fun.

*i love to felt!

*the more i work without doing collage using matte medium, the more i feel the urge to do so! (fast and physical)

*it's difficult to keep up on changing mediums or techniques every week. some projects (masks) will take longer and veer off in other directions.

*"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
- Ursula Le Guin

*i can be flexible about some things- such as my current art projects, and very inflexible about others- such as what foods i like to eat.

52 weeks TO DO & ACCOMPLISHED

paper manipulation: folding, tearing, embossing, no additional coloration or collageing... - altered book project, atcs.

sewing paper: paper to fabric, paper to paper, by hand, by machine, handmade papers, rice papers, metallic thread... atcs, vertical fabric & paper collage, quilted paper and fabric piece, masks (2).

*using bark, river birch and sycamore...sewn onto atcs, glued onto a mask.

*wire work- knitting, crocheting, wrapping, sculpting. used in jewelry and sculpture. wire spheres and beads. baling wire (dark annealed wire-16 gauge), silver wire (22 and 19 gauge), copper wire (18 gauge), colored wires (26 gauge)

*polymer clay- skinner blends, marbling, stamping, metallic powders, foil...

*needle-felting: a lovely hat for Maya- bold & colorful, Santa & angel ornaments, felted embellishment on a wool beret, many many felted hair clips.

Journey to the Unknown

08 August 2009

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