The table cloth has been washed and ironed so now i can see the extent of the staining.There are lots of pink and black areas. …and a few holes. I like this area where there is a mended hole and now more holes beside it need repairing…. …or not.
Read More...During a break in a snow storm I ventured outside to check on how my art projects were fairing.The cloths wrapped around the 4 trees were quite wet. If they are still damp during the next warm spell some interesting marks may emerge. I am amazed at how well the men’s suit jacket is surviving. […]
Read More...It must have been cold last night because this morning there are a lot more fallen leaves under the maple.The tea cloth I put under it is quite covered.I hope lots of interesting staining is going on under those leaves.I have to watch it closely now to catch it before the cotton threads start disintegrating […]
Read More...Last year i wrapped the 4 the trees i decided to have a ‘dialogue’ with. After a few months the unbleached cotton i had wrapped them with showed no signs of the staining i had expected. So I left the trees wrapped and continued the dialogues in other ways.Yesterday, while i was outside doing fall […]
Read More...With the warm wet weather we have been having, all sorts of fungi have been sprouting up.Here are some images of spore patterns made by some of them. They look like those retina images one now gets when having one’s eyes examined.Or is it mushroom iridology?
Read More...The maple tree is showing signs of turning. It is time to continue my dialogue with it. I laid a soy soaked table cloth underneath it. Now I am waiting for the leaves to fall.
Read More...This weekend I went to see Martha Cole and her latest work at an open house in Gloria Daly’s studio. Martha had taught a book making class there the previous week so we were able to look at the students books as well as Martha’s books.Martha is a world authority on paste paper and their […]
Read More...Now that i have sent this semester’s module of work to the UK for assessment it is time to clean up my studio. All of the left over yarn that i had hauled out, i sorted by hue. I have all of my yarns and threads sorted into 24 different hues, each with their own […]
Read More...This is another dialogue i have going on with a Douglas-fir and an arbutus. I staked out under these 2 trees a grid of round knit and crochet doilies and squares of agricultural cloth. I was anticipating the plants in the ground would grow up through the knitting/crochet…. …and be suppressed by the agricultural cloth.This […]
Read More...This is the cloth I pulled out of the compost, washed and dried. Now it is my turn to respond to it. I had this strong urge to preserve it…. …so I looked up 2 of my favourite books, Therese de Dillmont’s ‘The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework’ and Weldon’s ‘Encyclopedia of Needlework’, to read up […]
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