oops! wordless wednesday: embroidered fibre cuff in progress

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con.text.ual flow

More work on the first con:text (still haven't sorted the branding of this project, colon or period) piece over the weekend. 

Didn't quite work out how I imagined but still looking promising.

I shredded and then super-washed (twice) the fabric text piece, hoping to soften the inkjet transfer but it's still like parchment ... which might work. The lines of text will have a lot more body to them in the finished piece, woven in around the beaded elements.

... but you will have to wait for the jewelry bits to emerge.

Tall Tales for Father's Day

Tall Tales for Father's Day:

one day while hiking, i fought off a ferocious bear in the woods (carved bear by Tom Reid, woods painting by Valerie Simons)

In honour of all the dads who love to tell tall tales to their children, why not celebrate Father's Day with a reminder of their hyperbole and scaremongering?

My own father told bedtime tales so vivid that, even now, I'm unable to drop off to sleep with even a foot protruding from under the duvet or (heaven forbid) hanging over the side of the bed. His descriptive passages involving children with dangling limbs being trimmed by the ferociously dentured crocodiles which dwelt under each bed were punctuated after storytime by him peering round the bedroom door, thrashing his out-stretched arms up and down in the manner of a vicious toothed beast seeking its next meal. This was of course accompanied by guttural roaring noises, presumably similar to those emitted by hunting reptiles in the throes of a blood lust.

He was mortified many decades later, when I told him how scarred I was by this.

lies, damned lies

Did you know, I'm also creative with the truth?

Check out this series of telling tales ...

wearing - beachcomber wire crochet collar with shell, amber, tiger eye, citrine, vintage resin, copper

fibre friday: con.text

Have at last started work on a series of pieces for a gallery show this July - the working title is con.text or con:text (whichever I think has the typographical clout) and will be work inspired by chunks of text. The title is a play on words around the first project.
This morning I heat-transferred a 419 email contents onto a thrifted remnant of cream silk ... hence con text!
If you need any more clues, try googling Nigerian scam :)

studio portrait thursday: new stitching

Weaving thrums stitched into wire crochet. Not sure where this is going yet ...

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wordless wednesday: it's in the genes

Photograph of ma and pa's DIY bonfire weatherproofing

Creativity - it's in my genes I guess.