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Discarded doilies demand attention

by | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Art School, Artist Statement, Craft, Crafts, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, ECUAD, Fabric, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Flo, Found Objects, Fractal, Gallery, Handwork, Installation, Liz Magor, Maker, Net, Painting, Ravages, Scale, Sculpture, Textile, Use Object, Wrap I, Wrap II

Wrap (I), polyethylene fibre, 96″ diameter In my fourth-year sculpture class venerable artist and (now newly-retired) Emily Carr instructor Liz Magor took one look at my first installation of a kazillion doilies stretched across the cavernous classroom and said,...

Playing with ideas

by | Jun 29, 2011 | Art, Doily, Fractal, Process, Psychedelic, Writing

I don’t know what to think about this gravitational pull into psychedelic art and my obsession with the humble, throwaway doily. But it’s better that way.Better to learn through the making. It’s taken four years of full-time art school to get past my past way of...