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Letting go and getting on it

by | Mar 22, 2025 | Abject, Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Art Discourse, Artist, Crochet, Doilies, ECUAD MFA, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handwork, Imagination, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MakingIsConnecting, MFA, Personalispolitical, Re-use, Reimagine, Stitching, Tactility, Textile Art, Upcycle, Vancouver

Our job as artists is to imagine different futures (Originally published Feb. 23, 2025 on Substack)I made a bit of a scene when Friedrich Irrgang confirmed that he was retiring after 62 short years in the timepiece-repair business. And just what will become of my...

No use fretting over earthquakes

by | Oct 2, 2024 | Abject, Anxiety, Architecture, Artifact, Assemblage, Binding, Braiding, Dystopia, Found Materials, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Material Exploration, Meditation, Scaffolds I, Seismic Rug

Hand-makers will be the change when or if ‘The Big One’ hits​Of all the things I fret over — a neighbourhood arsonist, identity theft, Trump burning it all down, an all-out war in the Middle East — ‘earthquake’ is not one of them. But it may seem like I’m...