Posts Tagged ‘textile art’
Telling the Truth- My First Self Portrait
For the past 6+ months, I’ve been envisioning and working on my first self portrait, due for a show in July. From the start I WANTED to do it, NEEDED to do it, to really dive in and see what I would find in myself. Last fall, I began working with a nervous system…
Read MoreA Year of New Things
I can’t tell you how excited I’ve been lately! Over the past two years I’ve been thinking hard about what I want to be doing with my life & work, and how fast the years are flying by… In 2023 I started taking more concrete steps in the directions I’ve dreamed of. It’s hard not…
Read MoreHow Elizabeth Parker Changed My Life (Part II)
(content warning: this post includes mentions of mental health, abuse, suicide) Meet Elizabeth Parker- in her own words: “As i cannot write I put this down simply and freely as I might speak to a person to whose intimacy and tenderness I can fully intrust myself and who I know will bear…
Read MoreThread Confessional: How Elizabeth Parker Changed My Life (Part I)
(Content Warning: This post contains discussions of mental health, abuse, and suicide.) “As I cannot write I put this down simply and freely as I might speak to a person to whose intimacy and tenderness I can fully entrust myself”. Around the year 1830ce, Elizabeth Parker was an English teenager who had already…
Read MoreFirst Confession… The Threads of My Soul
Why do we stitch?….. Why do we spend THOUSANDS of our hours hunched silently over fabric and thread?…. What does it take… and what does it give?… For me- embroidery helps take away my fears, and helps me find my voice. tiny stitch, by tiny stitch, by tiny stitch… …Over and over again until all…
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