What have I made this past year. I would love to include the photos of the bracelets and necklaces (my Niyonu, and the Vanessa and the Fisayo, my niece Shannon's wedding bracelet) that have gone to friends. Making a few pieces for myself as I learn techniques or have an outlet for making something. Not much knitting and a few scandalous attempts at the knitting frame to get legwarmers created faster than hand knitting, or maybe a combination of the two techniques.
Nope haven't gotten any book arts done, but I did lead a Art//Let afternoon down at Shimer College (my alma mater) which told me that the logistics can be its own form of nightmare, especially getting glue to dry.
I have artist books and trading cards on the brain and no time to spread out and begin. I want to whine about the limitations of the space I have to work in and then I grasp the notion of gratitude of having a place to live and do some of the creative work that is flying around in my head. I am grateful for the chance to live and breathe and think about art most of the time and continue to see the beauty that surrounds (not ignoring the horrendous misery and war and terror that is also prevalent in the world right now. Say Gaza and the Palestinians and Hamas, Congo, etc. What a miserable waste of human talent and lives.) But this is about art making as well as contemplation of the living it (well or otherwise) portion. So here's to mark making and paints and more yarn and finishing the Obi/Zen sweater and all the other projects beckoning to become grounded born into full existence. Peace in and Peace out. Onward. More later, blessed be.
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