tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61536041027517442402024-03-13T03:03:45.852-07:00Were I So BesottedAn art project in and of itself, wereisobesotted.blogspot.com accompanies my hand-embroidered blog of the same name. Here, I describe in more detail how I arrive at my embroideries. I welcome your stories, anecdotes, and feedback.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.comBlogger411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-16489153628029720662016-05-30T03:47:00.000-07:002016-05-30T03:47:59.152-07:00Recent events: DissilienceThanks to Su Pang and Miss Vanilla, curators and photographer (Su) and musician (MV) respectively, for including me in a one-night, all-woman show last weekend in Dumbo at Rabbithole Studios. I was in the company of some talented women — <a href="http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/artists/29808" target="_blank">Fina Yeung</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154381628017926&set=pb.698557925.-2207520000.1464604923.&type=3&theater" target="_blank">Emily Strange</a>, <a href="https://sharelamaybonfield.wordpress.com/fiber-textile-work/" target="_blank">Sharela Bonfield</a>, <a href="http://katherinekisasart.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Katherine Kisa</a>, <a href="http://www.elainehargrove.com/fantastic-project-1" target="_blank">Elaine Hargrove</a>, <a href="http://www.stephanielcalvert.com/" target="_blank">Stephanie Calvert</a>, <a href="http://annespurgeon.com/" target="_blank">Anne Spurgeon</a>, <a href="http://liazuvilivia.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Lia Zuvilivia</a>, <a href="http://www.desiano.com/#!photo-objects/ckiy" target="_blank">Rose DeSiano</a> <br /><br />
In my years participating in group shows in New York, this was one of the best, most satisfying and surprising. Su, who lives across the country, picked our work from online images, and wasn't sure what she was getting into. Neither were we! The level of craftsmanship and fusion between content (which varied greatly from artist to artist) and craft in each woman's work exceeded any expectations I might have had. I was in awe when I stepped into the gallery to hang my work. I had found a group of peer artists, with little effort on my part except for answering Su's emails, showing up with a hammer and some nails.<br />
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Below are a couple of installation shots of my work. For more images taken by Su Pang from the exhibit and performances, visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onionskeen/media_set?set=a.10154211109112692.1073741867.640552691&type=3&pnref=story" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-74962559422125665682016-02-19T12:33:00.001-08:002016-02-21T05:06:53.508-08:00Not embattled, embraced<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paint on
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book, “Our Bodies, Ourselves” and Barbara Krueger’s, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=your+body+is+a+battelground&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank">“Your body is a battleground.” </a></span></span></div>
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dressed to run or go to work, to go out to meet friends: <i>Is this
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-26395433524994865182016-02-07T10:13:00.000-08:002016-02-07T10:13:20.931-08:00When old and new love stories collideDear blog readers, dear cyberspace, dear digital friends,<br />
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Through the kindness of two Brooklyn curators, Katherine Gressel and Kim Maier of the Old Stone House, my work will be included in a show opening this Wednesday evening, "Partners, Parents, Pets: Contemporary Portraiture."<br />
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The curators were most interested in my 2011 Brooklyn Arts Council sponsored Brooklyn Love Exchange project. Most of that work was sold, and we're showing a few remaining pieces. I decided to revisit old content—love stories people had emailed me, and I'd liked but was too overwhelmed to embroider. I ended up making two of those and an email collaging memories of an old love with a new, brief love interest. The piece below includes 30 years of memories.<br />
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Remembering the past can be wistful and also torturous. I am glad this piece is over. I finished it in time for the exhibit and can move on emotionally from some difficult memories.<br />
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If you happen to be in the New York area, please join us this Wednesday, 2/10, 6-9pm at the <a href="http://theoldstonehouse.org/event/partners-parents-pets-contemporary-portraiture/" target="_blank">Old Stone House</a> in Park Slope, Brooklyn at 336 3rd Street. <br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-59368688961486633122016-01-12T03:42:00.000-08:002016-01-12T03:43:17.117-08:00Breaking the Glass Ceiling, new sculptures in the works<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-36652541578539391772016-01-02T10:03:00.000-08:002016-01-02T10:03:20.764-08:00Happy New Year and my work as a social contractFor the past three years, I've struggled with how to make work that moves beyond sharing my own and others' personal stories into the realm of culturally-relevant commentary. It is possible that my own thinking and self-contextualization were the only barriers to this. What if I were to think of my work as a social contract, and myself as having a duty or responsibility to represent multiple voices as a way of speaking about contemporary social issues without being didactic or obnoxious?<br />
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A new version of my artist statement is underway. I am thinking of making it the home page of my web site. Good idea or ridiculous?!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-77516533869660913042015-12-01T11:30:00.002-08:002015-12-01T11:30:45.272-08:00Breaking the Glass CeilingWhen I was a kid, I overheard the term "glass ceiling" pretty often, meaning an invisible barrier to women and/or people of color seeking advancement into high level corporate positions. While I never dreamed of making it in the corporate world, I kept an image in my head of an actual clear glass ceiling, and how it would feel to accidentally bang into it.<br />
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As an artist, some of the gallerists and administrators who favor my work have suggested that I'd sell more and show in more galleries if I were a man. While I recognize that these comments are meant to be supportive, I am not 100% convinced that being female has hampered me. I know a far greater number of disappointed male artists than female artists, for instance.<br />
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So, what is a glass ceiling in 2015? I am not sure exactly how I would define it. I think the glass ceiling of my 80s childhood has shifted and changed shape. I unfortunately do think that misogyny still permeates our culture in sometimes obvious and other times subtle ways. For instance, I've noticed Facebook posts describing how women silently tolerate subtle forms of abuse — inappropriate sexual remarks or jokes, unwanted physical contact — in social and/or professional settings where speaking up seems unfavorable. I am disappointed to see women close to me in age feel as though they cannot voice disagreement with behavior that belittles or maligns. While experiencing unwanted remarks or physical contact is not a glass ceiling, the psychology of grinning and passively participating in unwanted behavior encourages women's all-over passivity. Instead of self advocating, we laugh off something offensive, hurtful or inappropriate when we should be demonstrating a lack of approval and advocating for ourselves. If we won't stick up for ourselves in the context of casual banter, how will we ask for a raise or a more flexible schedule? How will we advocate for better parental leave and other benefits? How will we shift antiquated ways of thinking and behaving?<br />
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In a series of sculptures and characters now in formation, I am playing with the intersection of fiber and glass. Both of materials can be seen as delicate (and by extension feminine) while also being surprisingly resilient and strong. In the below piece, which says "breaking the glass ceiling," the figure's arms are glass beads. I've since taking this photo somewhat changed the structure of the piece, and am adding a jacket with more text about breaking my own glass ceiling. Stay tuned for more photos. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-31145564312324975732015-10-23T01:39:00.000-07:002015-10-23T01:40:51.685-07:00In Residence, Monday, 10/26 – Sunday, 11/8<br />
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Join me at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/workshopgalleryartistsfoundation?fref=ts" target="_blank">Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation</a> at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery for the 2015 finale to Native/Immigrant City, my exploration of New York natives, immigrants and transplants from other parts of the country through soft sculpture. Since December 2014, I've been collecting stories and memories of moving to and from NYC, surviving rent hikes, questionable roommates and landlords, and falling in love with the City despite all the stress and vowing never to leave.<br />
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I translate friends' and strangers' stories into stop motion animations and embroideries on fabric paintings and sculptures. I try to give voice and tactile form to varying cultural points of view. With a Brooklyn Arts Council grant, I've had the opportunity to host some communal storytelling and embroidery events in the past year. Thanks to 61 Local and Brooklyn Workshop Gallery for donating space.<br />
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From 10/26–11/8, you can find me at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery. Special hours are:<br />
Monday, 10/26, 12–7pm<br />
Saturday, 10/31, 12–5pm<br />
Sunday, 11/1, 2–5pm<br />
Monday, 11/2, 12–6pm<br />
Tuesday, 11/3, 11am–4pm<br />
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Join us on Thursday, 11/5 from 7-9pm for a poetry reading featuring <a href="http://kctrommer.com/home.html" target="_blank">KC Trommer</a> and friends. <br />
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For additional hours and dates, contact me to set up a private viewing of the work, or look for updates via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/iviva" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-71235861022797818242015-09-25T04:30:00.000-07:002015-09-25T04:30:14.831-07:003D Stitch-By-Stitch at Pratt — Starts Tuesday!!Join me!<br />
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5 consecutive Tuesdays.<br />
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Embroidery basics leading to 3D explorations. Lots of individual attention and group demos. Collegial environment. Fun!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-56830178317230149102015-07-27T13:09:00.001-07:002015-07-27T13:16:45.360-07:00Summer LovinSummer's long days and nights fade before we're ready and catch the perfect selfie on the beach in front of a sunset.<br />
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Summer romances are said to be similar. I've spent my summer teaching elementary school students for whom English is a second language. With no summer romance appearing, I've had to embroider one into being...<br />
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<i>Come home and put me on like a sweater</i> is a season-less romance for the whole year round.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-88749288247010579792015-06-29T02:30:00.000-07:002015-06-29T02:31:35.045-07:00Are blogs obsolete?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has <a href="https://instagram.com/iviva_in_brooklyn/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> surpassed blogging? I've come to prefer its ease of use and immediacy. <a href="https://twitter.com/Embroiderypoems" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, too, enables quick sharing of ideas, mostly stream of consciousness commentary, which feeds my embroideries and artist statements, hyperbolic though my comments may be. How to transfer followers from one platform to another?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To check in with me more regularly and give me access to your visual diaries, let's follow each other on <a href="https://instagram.com/iviva_in_brooklyn/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For now, here are some more images of figures I'm profiling in <a href="http://www.ivivaolenick.com/?cat=1271" target="_blank">Native/Immigrant City</a>, an ongoing conversation with Brooklynites and New Yorkers (natives, transplants, immigrants) about surviving/thriving amidst breakneck speed gentrification and crushing daily demands. Currently receiving support through a Greater NY Arts Development Fund grant from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs administered by BAC (Brooklyn Arts Council).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Last Wednesday's inaugural Artists Who Write Salon was a success, with unexpected revelations and debuts of new writing from Yazmany Arboleda, Kent Shell and Seldon Yuan. I can only hope they each get a book deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Join us this Wednesday, 6/10 from 7–9pm for Artists Who Write Salon I, featuring <a href="http://www.glasslessglasses.com/about.html" target="_blank">Yazmany Arboleda</a>, <a href="http://www.kentshell.com/" target="_blank">Kent Shell</a> and <a href="http://seldonyuan.com/" target="_blank">Seldon Yuan</a> – heavy hitters in the visual and literary art worlds and in design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you, Jenny, for your warmth and radiant generosity, which pulled the inner curator out of me. And thank you roster of artists I've admired for years. Assembling us in a collaborative series of evenings is a dream come true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sundays, 5/31 – 6/28</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Questions? Ask me!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-70715335546610198802015-05-09T02:15:00.001-07:002015-05-09T02:16:04.232-07:00Brooklyn in Stop Motion<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of my favorite parts of being an artist are impromptu collaborations. Friends and strangers become part of my work by sharing their stories, which I record and transform into 2- and 3-dimensional embroideries. I sometimes even make stop motion animations using the audio recordings (which I edit).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The piece below, An Old New York You Don't Really See, is narrated by my friend, Sherri Kronfeld, a native New Yorker and current Brooklynite. She is particularly gifted at capturing 1908s NYC through the eyes and impressions of a child. I wish my own memories retained the feelings of being a kid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am thrilled to have made major progress on these coordinated pieces. The embroidered painting and doll share the memories and stories of a native New Yorker (Queens born) who now lives in Brooklyn and has seen the borough go through many changes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I continue developing Native/Immigrant City, my embroidered study of assimilation versus acculturation in richly textured, socioeconomically challenging Brooklyn, I am excited to find stories like these from natives. I also want to thank the Greater NY Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs administered by BAC for partial sponsorship of this project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coming up in May, I will be sharing the techniques I use to make the above pieces at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery at 393 Hoyt Street in Brooklyn near 3rd Street (and not too far from Whole Foods). Martine Bisagni, Director of the Gallery, is kindly hosting a Sewing and Embroidery Studio on Thursday May 21 and 28 and June 4th from 1-9pm. I will be on site from 6-9pm on those dates, sharing my techniques and processes and teaching embroidery basics. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-46691889647485973402015-03-29T09:48:00.001-07:002015-03-29T09:49:22.307-07:00Where has March gone?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While warmer weather continues to evade us, I've taken advantage of the climate to work indoors on growing <a href="http://www.ivivaolenick.com/?cat=1271" target="_blank">Native/Immigrant City</a>, my homage to New Yorkers born in the City and from other States and countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My current piece in process is below. Please get in touch if you happen to be a current or former Brooklyn resident with a story to share about your experience making a home in the borough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also want to thank the <a href="http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/2446" target="_blank">Brooklyn Arts Council</a> for providing me with some funding to grow and continue this project. More specifically, I have a generous regrant from the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, stay tuned for announcements of by-donation workshops coming soon to a Brooklyn venue near you...I provide supplies and instruction; you show up with an idea for a soft sculpture. Together, we turn your vision into a physical reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The opening for Reach Out and Touch Me was fun. It was one of the coldest nights of the year. Nevertheless, many friends showed up, surprising me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is my soft sculpture "family," Selfie, @YrImaginaryDog and her iPhone watching a stop motion video of me embroidering Selfie's and @YrImaginaryDog's tweets on Selfie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibit is up through March 18th at IMC Lab, 56 W 22nd Street near 6th Ave in NYC. Get in touch if you'd like to visit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, stay tuned for news of my BAC-sponsored Native/Immigrant City project. As for me, I'm off to art fairs today. I can't wait for Spring Break! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-79346482686908732252015-02-15T15:33:00.002-08:002015-02-15T15:37:41.666-08:00Winter cheer - Thursday opening @IMCLabGallery<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear blog readers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, it's cold. Yes, I am suffering from season-long sinus congestion. I'm giving up dairy. For real, this time. It's going to be hard. I will miss Greek yogurt more than I can say. I am hoping coconut yogurt (which is basically a sugary custard) will suffice. Who am I kidding? I can't even keep a straight face typing this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to IMC Lab & Gallery, the opening for my solo show, the culmination of my Co-Create Residency, is this Thursday. Details below on the invitation co-designed with James Tunick, Residency co-director and technology guru. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been keeping myself busy, getting ready for an upcoming solo show (opening night Thursday, 2/19!) at IMC Lab and Gallery in Manhattan, 56 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor. I've been making stop motion videos to add texture and elucidate some of the narratives embroidered on my hand held and life sized selfies. Here is a sneak peak of one stop motion piece:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lately, I'm experimenting with using furniture in my house to create makeshift looms, varying tension of the warp (vertical) yarns to create mixed textures, feels and effects across a fabric. This "breast plate," pictured above, is irregularly shaped, like an animal skin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our clothes <i>are</i> a second skin. They are part of how we share and shape our identities. In this selfie (selfish), digital age, in which we obsessively pose and posture who and how we are publicly, incorporating second skins into my selfie creations seems a propos. For me, textiles have an inherent narrative and are a language. My goal as an artist is to use them to shape and share stories I infer, overhear and imagine. While I most often use embroidery, I am finding weaving an important additional tool. I am weaving, in part, to create clothing and environments for my almost life-sized, selfie-in-progress. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm excited to continue my circular weaving/apartment-as-loom experiments. They let me know that I could make fabric anywhere in any environment.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-26430319489998633372014-12-17T03:45:00.002-08:002014-12-17T03:46:17.351-08:00Selfie with @YrImaginaryDog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fearing that Selfie might get lonely, I made her a dog, <a href="https://twitter.com/YrImaginaryDog" target="_blank">@YrImaginaryDog</a>, who provides unsolicited advice via Twitter to <a href="https://twitter.com/Embroiderypoems%5C" target="_blank">@EmbroideryPoems</a>. Follow us to be part of the conversation and watch the development of these narrative, interactive sculptures, making an appearance in your NYC neighborhood soon!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-8201525157337865082014-11-30T04:21:00.002-08:002014-11-30T04:21:39.794-08:00Self(ie)Starting something new: life-sized (or almost life-sized) fabric figures with embroidered tweets. I'm about to start weaving fabric with which to clothe her. Stay tuned.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153604102751744240.post-45930545802908580502014-11-11T04:24:00.001-08:002014-11-11T04:29:45.509-08:00I used to<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">use this forum to pour out concerns I wasn't sharing IRL ("in real life") contexts. Now <a href="https://twitter.com/Embroiderypoems" target="_blank">Twitter</a> is more of my home. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is blogging obsolete? Have Twitter and Instagram replaced longer-form writing? (what) Do we read? How long is the average #AttentionSpan? Is #reading #obsolete? What does that mean for poetry and journalism? Are talk show hosts better received than news anchors?</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00889623659268695696noreply@blogger.com2