I am packed and ready to go to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival! Yipee!
Here are a couple of views of the item I am donating to the Festival door prizes (view through full site only):
With the afternoon I have left today, I am going to do a bit more dyeing of silk. I would like to have one or two more silk organza curtains for my display.
Ahhhhh! I feel so awesome and so prepared…
It was a big weekend for inventory and a new piece in the studio. I have over 100 silk scarves and yardage for the Michigan Fest!
Here’s the start of the piece I will donate for the festival door prizes:
Really looking forward to the next week–I need to make my display, pack and create contact cards!
What have I been doing this week? In addition to obsessively dyeing scarves, I used this machine to make abaca and cotton paper pulp!
Such an awesome tool! However, once the pulp is made, the human work begins. Pulling sheets, pressing them, drying them–hours of physical work and I am POOPED! But I do have about 100 sheets of awesome paper to show for all of it!
Isn’t this awesome?? I am realizing that dyework is exactly what I want to be doing!!
I’ve been a wanderer in a strange land these last nine years.
Those of you who know me understand that I left a studio practice after a series of tragedies–I launched out for a strange, new world to try my hand as a new North Dakotan and entrepreneur. I learned a lot in the process.
These last weeks, I’ve reconnected with my skills and passion for dyeing cloth. I’ve also explored intuitively metalworking with copper and brass. I am finding the creative “food” and motivation I thought I’d left behind. It is scary and exciting!
Today I will finish editing pictures of my new body of work in hand-patterned silk. I will take digital shots of the over 50 new copper and brass pieces created in the last month. Within the week, the best of these will be part of my website and posted to Facebook.
Keep creating,
Linae
My website is in process! I am retooling it so it reflects the bodies of work–and thought–I am building today. Yes, I know that a website should be more than just a repository of images or ideas…but this is the way I have used mine until now.
In October 2013, I was blessed with an opportunity to take a position at Bismarck State College. I left service at St. Alexius after 6 years and many good memories. It was a tough transition, a necessary change, and my new job description includes…SUMMERS OFF! WOW!
So, for the first time in a good number of years, my days are my own and I am making new work like crazy. I also decided to apply for an artist’s booth at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, August 3-10. I am concentrating on two areas of work right now: hand-patterned silk and copper/brass inspiration medals.
In the days to come, you’ll see my website grow and change in the following ways:
Because I am an artist and NOT a web designer, I think it could take a few weeks to get all this accomplished, so thank you in advance for you patience! It will be worth it–I am really proud of my new work and so ready for you to see it.
Linae