New Legacies has opened at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, CO and two of my Ordinary Oracle pieces are on display until August 5. Glimpses was inspired by reading about the ancient oracle at Delphi. It is said that she went into a trance, then gazed into a dark bowl of water from the sacred stream to see the future and make her predictions. I was interested in the fact that virtually all the ancient oracles were women, and were considered to be the most powerful sources of wisdom at the time. One of our kids did a semester abroad in Athens, so we went to visit and took our hostel-arranged bus trip (with a bunch of fun twenty-somethings) to Delphi. You can still feel the power of place there.
Ordinary Oracle: Glimpses (detail), 52 x 28, cotton, linen, silk noil, wool, small objects
Summer Reading: Winter Counts, by David Heska Wanbli Weiden; The Midnight News, by Jo Baker; Singer Distance, by Ethan Chatagnier, and on audio, Dead Water, by Anne Cleeves.
Ordinary Oracle:Talismanic Cloth was selected for Fiber Art Now Excellence in Quilts. Apron Strings 2 is on exhibit in Indiana Now, at the Art Musuem of Greater Lafayette through August 6. Amulet Bundles for Cutting Strings will appear in SAQA Global Art Evolved: Intertwined, at the Yellowstone Art Museum, opening today, June 30. Online, Afterlives, a Surface Design Association online exhibit, includes Amulet Bundles for Teenage Drivers.
We have hazy air here in Northern Indiana due to the wild fires in Canada, but some much needed rain has put the garden into full bloom. You can check my Instagram page for garden photos.