Starting Fresh

 I read an interview with the painter Lucy Mink Covello last night.

She is an abstract painter.  I wanted to read what she had to say about her art because she has children, and there are just not enough role models for mother artists.

"I think my obsession with hiding thoughts in paintings will continue to grow. There are a vast amount of stories out in the world, but a painting holds mystery.  You can keep coming back.
I don't need answers, or plots, or outcomes.  I like vague."

Lucy Mink Covello studied with David Rich for her MFA and told the interviewer that he "pushed her to change what she was doing and start fresh." 

I am saddened today by events in our world.

I am working on some small pictures (images in this post are of my first one) for the Slow Stitch meetings I attend on Thursdays in my local community.  Book authors like Janet Bolton are my teachers.

time and accident

She told me that I don't need to completely cover the surface and that she notices the marks more if there are fewer of them.

I told her that my work is about time and accident and that both sides are the right side.

I want to communicate time spent and the unintended beauty of nature and human marks.

I told her that I want my viewer to look at my work and understand the thoughtful solitude that goes into the production of it.

There is a feeling of being alone with one's own meditative self.

This is my subject and what I hope to communicate.

"Are your memories coming to you or are you going to them?
If you are going to them then you are wasting time.
Nostalgia is not productive.
If they are coming to you,
they are the seeds for sculpture."  Louise Bourgeois

indigo moon

 

This is a brand new embroidery - made as a sample for slow stitch class.
I am teaching the stitches that we used in the manitoulin circle project.
Here:  couching, pearl-bead basting, and eyelet stitch.  Also curved seams.

I was so surprised when I placed this little moon on a runner made last spring for april's wedding, I had to drop everything and reverse-applique it in place.

Slow stitch is a gift on many levels.