1. 4 Jun


    I began this quilt a couple months ago.  Every woman in my family has made a quilt at one time or another, and it’s about that time for me to do the same.  The quilt explores my family tree, life experiences as well as familial cycles of trauma.  Throughout the making of this quilt (which is still in progress by the way) I have been using heirloom fabrics, naturally dyeing patches for color, embroidering translucent lace patches, as well as scanning photos of important objects and papers that are relative of these experiences and printing them onto fabric.  I am not ready to show the whole piece, but here are some glances. 

    I am interested in listening to stories of resilience.  I want to here others speak their mind.  Share what you think.  It’s important.

    For more of my work check me out here. 

    (Source: asuncame)

     

  2. 23 Jan


    For those of you who don’t know India Flint, she is an amazing fiber artist and an accomplished author of books dedicated to spreading knowledge of plant dyes, natural color, and sustainable practices involving harvesting fiberous material.  Also, her art work is just as incredible as her passion for natural materials, and most of time you can wear her designs. Know it, love it.  Thank you for reading. India Flint At the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax Nova Scotia Source: artpropelled

    For those of you who don’t know India Flint, she is an amazing fiber artist and an accomplished author of books dedicated to spreading knowledge of plant dyes, natural color, and sustainable practices involving harvesting fiberous material.  Also, her art work is just as incredible as her passion for natural materials, and most of time you can wear her designs.

    Know it, love it.  Thank you for reading.

    India Flint

    At the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax Nova Scotia

    Source: artpropelled

    (via artpropelled)

     

  3. 22 Jan


    Amy Gross, Headlands Thaw Embroidery, Applique, Beading, Watercolor, Pencil, Beeswax on Fabric 18” x 36” Amy Gross is a favorite artist of mine these days and I’m constantly drawing inspiration through her work as well as through her voice.  I first became struck with her artistic practice when I originally read her artist statement for the first time.  In Amy’s statement, she described how she began her relationship to working with fibers during a time when loss and illness became most prevalent in her life by affecting the lives of people she was most closest to.  Her artwork touches on recreating various life forms found throughout nature, especially organic structures located inside organisms.  I originally identified with her work because of the way she translated her inner life through biomimicry with art materials.  “My elements mimic both the microscopic and life forms in our human eye-scale. They grow, they take over, they climb. The only rule is that my living things are not corporeal, they’re imitation, they cannot die.” -Amy Gross Check out more of her work here: http://www.amygross.com/index.html

    Amy Gross, Headlands Thaw

    Embroidery, Applique, Beading, Watercolor, Pencil, Beeswax on Fabric 18” x 36”

    Amy Gross is a favorite artist of mine these days and I’m constantly drawing inspiration through her work as well as through her voice.  I first became struck with her artistic practice when I originally read her artist statement for the first time.  In Amy’s statement, she described how she began her relationship to working with fibers during a time when loss and illness became most prevalent in her life by affecting the lives of people she was most closest to.  Her artwork touches on recreating various life forms found throughout nature, especially organic structures located inside organisms.  I originally identified with her work because of the way she translated her inner life through biomimicry with art materials. 

    “My elements mimic both the microscopic and life forms in our human eye-scale. They grow, they take over, they climb. The only rule is that my living things are not corporeal, they’re imitation, they cannot die.” -Amy Gross

    Check out more of her work here:

    http://www.amygross.com/index.html

     

  4. 7 Dec


    There is nothing of me that is not of earth, no split instant of separateness, no particle that disunites me from the surroundings.  I am no less than the earth itself.  The rivers run through my veins, the winds blow in and out with my breath, the soil makes my flesh, the sun’s heat smolders inside me… the life of the earth is my own life.  My eyes are the earth  gazing at itself.

    Artwork by Stephany Latham

    (Source: stephanylatham.com)

     

  5. 7 Dec


    “Individuals become attached to their place and merge with it; they associate their place with their image of themselves; they locate themselves there wholly, so that no one can touch the place without touching them.” - Tournier

    Artwork by Stephany Latham

    (Source: asuncame)