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‘The unknown’ is a monster

by | Dec 14, 2024 | Cartoon, Children, Collaboration, Conceptual Craft, Craft, Craftivism, Creative Process, Embroidery, Hand Stitching, Inspiration, Kids Art, Monster, Narrative, Needlework, Patriarchy, Personalispolitical, Process

I’m betting its bite will be worse than its bark Lately I’ve been asking anyone I come across: Is it just me or are we all sort of in a calm-before-the-storm, high-alert mode? So far, the score is 100-per-cent ‘Yes.’ Although in retrospect those affirmatives...

Of portraits and the patriarchy

by | Jan 3, 2014 | Art, Patriarchy, Social History

When my brother showed me his inherited oil painting of a senior citizen, my first thought was: Yeesh. No wonder the young nudes endure.They may not be remembered by history, like this unfamiliar subject, but they are pretty enough to pass down for generations of...