How it is when one comes home, after living out of only a suitcase and a sewing basket for two weeks. The house seems so full of stuff. I spent some of yesterday eliminating, clearing, giving myself some space to breathe.
We were away for so long that I finished the seventh journal panel and have begun an eighth. Each holds about two weeks. 
I had planned to show the diary-like effect of the stitching, but I still have 7000 words left to write for my dissertation, due in December. The topic is the "roaring silence" (John Cage) feeling that I see in some contemporary artwork, specifically that from Japan and Finland, specifically textile art. Some of the essay will be in a pared down style, but the rest needs to be more scholarly. Not minimalist
More earthy, more hand crafted than that
Not expressionist
Quieter, more spiritual than that
Not sublime
More personal, more nature based than that
Something alive
Something spare
An aesthetic of simplicity
Touch precedes language
Textiles are about touch
intimate
slow to make
repetitive processes
made with the body
4 comments:
I like your word-list... and stones, and the magical looking Aladin lamp! And, yes, how is it that we accumulate so much stuff we think we need. It complicates life so...... but then again, I LOVE beautiful things.
i greatly enjoy a more simplified style and a nod to it in art
and in life
my mil was a clutter freak and when i married my husband he made me promise we'd have no knickknacks.
it was hard but keeping the house more functional has been wonderfully helpful.
you're doing such wonderful work.
resonation echoing!
Um, yeah. Know what you mean about coming home to what was cozy when you left and overstuffed when you return. I just got back after several week's worth of travel, and I just want to open the windows and start chucking stuff out. Cool temperatures are the only thing standing in my way. That and knowing that I'd ultimately have to pick it all up. Love your plan for your thesis. Cloth was part of mine. Wish it had been a larger part.
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