This past few weeks I have been thinking in stitches. I have also been airing my collection of wool threads and fabrics, freshening storage places with herbal sachets to discourage moths, and getting my studio and materials back into order. I even moved furniture and vacuumed behind it.
I am sharing a few phone snaps of some sampling work I have done, visual meandering, playing with texture, color and materials.
I have also put up a new gallery with the Recollected and Gathered In works. This morning brought some desperately needed rain and I took the time to do some basic updates to my website and CV. Over a year ago, Jen Broemel asked if I would do an interview for her Art of Improv blog. I met Jen at Quilt National in 2019, a fellow Hoosier, and was delighted to be asked. The interview appeared on Jen’s blog during April of 2020, and like so much else during the first months of the pandemic, it slipped through the cracks for me. So, you can still read the interview by clicking the link above, and can also browse through the many other interesting interviews with so many talented artists that Jen has posted over the past couple of years.
What I am Reading:
Here are a few titles: Early Morning Riser, by Katherine Heiny; The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans; Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith; The Children’s Blizzard, by Melanie Benjamin; Vera, by Carol Edgarian; and Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler.
The Children’s Blizzard opened up a whole new chapter of thinking for my westward expansion series, Territorial Road. I ordered more books for research.