Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Make make

One day a while back my sister felt brave and decided to attempt a clear out. As younger siblings do, I sat close by to pick on the remains. Alongside a bunch of re-usable paper I rescued some rejected newsprint print print (woah!) print experiments thinking that they might inspire me one day. With the 'Art' video niggling my mind I dug them out to see what might happen. This is what is happening.
It looked like a coastline and so I guess I'm turning it into some sort of map of nothing in particular. They can be the best sort of maps - it's good to imagine sometimes (read: all the time, or maybe just a lot of the time - constant imagination-living has the potential to create some confusing times). So I find myself stitching around this imaginary coastline. Then I might stitch around the imaginary lakes. And then maybe the islands. For some reason I find myself in super-small-stitch mode and so this might take some time.

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Art

I saw this on Lauren's blog the other day. I was glad to read that it made her glow inside. It made me cry. Listen to the lyrics. I guess there must be a confidence difference. Anyway, it obviously made me want to make something. We shall see what unfolds.