Chatted with mom.
Scooped up gobs of delicious new quotes for the digital quote box.
Saw a photo of my Quilt National quilt on someone else’s site with a paragraph that just made me laugh at the pure ridiculousness of it.
Good times.
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness. — Ben Shahn
The artist must be blind to distinctions between ‘recognized’ and ‘unrecognized’ conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. He must watch only the trend of the inner need, and hearken to its words alone. — Wassily Kandinsky
For posterity’s sake, what made me laugh:
“Mary Beth Frezon, Solveig
each block is a bit under two inches square
Many of the other quilts in the show were equally intricate, but executed in raw-edge techniques, clearly a lot more efficient and arguably a lot more spontaneous and painterly. But I’m glad to see these throwbacks, referencing and reverencing the old quilting traditions.”
I see what you mean! I always knew you were reverent and into referencing.
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