mainly as a result of the weather - too hot, too smoky, too humid. I am definitely not designed for this climate and this intensely hot summer is daily reminding me of this.
I am also too busy at the moment - my bit of paid work would devour my time if I allowed it- studying is being slotted in fiercely and my art is being reconsidered. I made the mistake of making a piece specially for an exhibition type I no longer belong to, and it was rejected. This was a reminder that I don't make art quilts anymore: I make something else that doesn't quite fit the art world and it definitely doesn't fit the quilt world. This may need some time to wash through and work out if I need to fit in anywhere - I sense that I should just keep walking my own path and if people like it, that's good: if they don't - meh.
So although this New Year commitment threatens to topple
I am pushing back. A weekend at
Beautiful Silks making shifu with the amazing
Velma Bolyard should help too
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This weather is very wearing isn't it?
Longing for the cooler days.
This weather is very wearing isn't it?
Longing for the cooler days.
I'm sorry about your weather - we have horrible weather of the opposite kind, and I want to fast forward to the part of the year where I complain about how hot it is!
I'm sorry too, about your recent disappointment. Perhaps it's not that you "don't fit, but rather that you didn't fit that particular call. I could see your eork being warmly welcomed in some of the European calls for entry for unusual and/ or innovative works in the medium; exactly the type of show my work would be roundly rejected from.
In either case though, I "roundly reject" the art quilt designation, as I refuse to be ghettoized in that manner. I make art. Textile just happens to be my medium.
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