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Strange beauty.
"... a relic is a physical object understood to carry the virtus of a saint or Christ, literally "virtue" but more accurately the "power" of a holy person. It can be a bone or bones, some other...
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Find your teachers: Kathy Halper
"Find your teachers." Unknown. (But it's a quote on my wall and I look at & think about these words every day). In 2009, I joined Facebook and slunk around all the pages belonging...
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Boogie-woogie.
One night I was layin' down, I heard Papa talkin' to Mama, I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie. 'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out. ~ John Lee Hooker In 1978, I came home...
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Yellow quilt.
"... whatever the genre may be, fiction does its work by creating a dream in the reader's mind." John Gardner, The Art of Fiction When a writer develops a character that readers identify with,...
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Soul fever.
"As parents, we develop an instinctual sense of what to do when our children get sick. Our instincts are part childhood memories of what brought us comfort, a bit of science, a large dose of...
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The boogie-woogiers, group 1.
Many thanks to the people who responded to my boogie-woogie post by sending stories and images of the "the things they had in them that just had to come out." Some of the stories behind the work were...
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The boogie-woogiers, group 2.
This is the second installment of the boogie-woogie artist call out -- many thanks to all the artists who contacted me with their meaningful work. If you missed group 1 of the boogie-woogiers, I highly...
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The boogie-woogiers, group 3.
This is the final group of boogie-woogiers. If you missed group 1 and group 2, I think it's worth following the links back to see how other artists are getting out "what's in them." Many thanks to all...
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The traveling eye 8: Fool's gold
"The eye has to travel." Diana Vreeland The eye has to travel, away from technology.Away from phones and keyboards and roads and rush. To find a century-old claim where someone else's...
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The dream of Pioneers.
I've never had a solo show before. I've never seen all my work together in one space. I've never had friends say, "I'll just fly down."(You know, for, like, the day). I didn't expect my family to take...
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What we found, 2.
This is our sixth year of boating in Prince William Sound, Alaska. For my youngest, this is all she's ever known. My son's Scandinavian name, Pelle, is our variation on the word "pelagic."We are...
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The maker's hand.
"Vein #4," (16" x 16" x 2") Vintage wool, unspun wool fiber, found objects. Hand felted, machine & hand embroidered, hand quilted, upholstered onto cradled board, 2015. I was recently interviewed...
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Of monsters.
"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." Alice Walker In winter, in darkness, I sometimes pull my feet onto the bed swiftly. I feel...
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Drive. A love story.
The Alaskan drive from Anchorage to Homer is 221 miles. The trip takes 4 1/2 - 5 hours, depending on summer road construction or winter weather conditions. We don't often make this drive, but we've...
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A vein runs through it.
"The forces that shape the natural world — gravity, erosion, material fatigue and subsequent fracture, the smoothing pulse of fluid — are also found within the realm of the body. Veins course through...
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Some call it green.
"It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene -- and not just okay, but something to be thankful for ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so...
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The serious business of showing.
There are several deadlines looming for juried exhibitions in the textile and contemporary art realm. I'm sure most of you are old pros at submitting -- I'm not, but since I finally have a body of work...
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In the deep well of series work.
"The most important benefit of working in a series is that it helps you learn how to work from your own ideas and discover your own unique voice [...] Become aware of the the work that excites you,...
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@amymeissnerartist
Oh for Pete's sake. I'm finally on Instagram.#textileart #PrinceWilliamSound #AKArtists #AKlife #Alaska #handstitching #designwall #boatnames #sketchbook #notebook #textileartist #quilt...
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Box of mystery.
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer....
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