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Category Archives: Art in the world
What are you doing?
…10 Things Every Photographer or Creative Person Must Learn. What a fabulous reality check! I sat there reading and nodding and maybe fidgeting just a little (hmmmm how’m’i doing in that category? huh – how about that?) but mostly nodding and remembering all the resounding “do the work” discussions over the years. yup. yup. yup. Continue reading
Who is that guy?
Tom Bombadil and the Entwives… This is very much why I don’t like to tell folks much about my quilts but I love it when they tell me what they think it’s about. Almost everyone has a slightly different take and I just love to hear about all of them. Continue reading
Are we there yet?
I can’t always reach the image in my mind… almost never, in fact… so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it. — Chuck Close Ah that … Continue reading
The reason – The intent
I want the viewer to look at my work and have a reaction of their own, or none, without my intervention. When people come to me and ask questions, I’m often guilty of asking them questions back, until they reveal what they think about the piece. Then I might agree, or be intrigued by something new they found all on their own, sometimes I’m surprised by their take on it. That’s good! I might also share some of my own thoughts about it, either about the making of it and how it started or what I thought after it was all done. Continue reading
Blog wanderings
First off thanks to Sandra D for the reference to Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour blog with this great quote: The lesson has never really left me: the more you work, the better you work, and the less you yearn … Continue reading