Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s been entirely too long since I posted. Two long holiday weekends in Italy. Lots of quilting experiments, using Dijanne Cevaal’s Seventy-Two Ways Not to Stipple or Meander for inspiration.
Working on my nomad girl’s face. Here she is so far:
Finishing and shipping a couple of small Dzogchen pieces. Preparing posters and postcards for my [...]
Posted in expat life, interdependence, tagged contemporary art parks, Italy, looking for beauty, sculpture gardens on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Last week, my husband and I visited an open-air sculpture museum and a city whose streets and squares serve as exhibition spaces for contemporary sculpture. Both were in the rolling countryside of Emilia-Romagna, near Bologna. Last summer, by chance, we had discovered the marvelous Giardino di Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Tuscany and, just recently, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged not-to-do list, priorities on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Lisa Call is a textile artist whose blog is filled with the inspiring work she does on herself, as well as on her fabrics. Her recent post, titled Not To Do List, inspired me to clarify my own priorities in life in a new way.
Of course, both my physical desktop and my computer desktop [...]
Posted in expat life, tagged first leaves of spring, Milan, Milano, spring on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Spring is in the air, the leaves are emerging, I’ve had a couple of nice encounters with friends, and I’m feeling good. In fact, better than I’ve felt in a long time. In a sense, I feel like that joyful, positive, expansive person I’ve been most of my life but haven’t seen for a while [...]
Posted in artwork, textile art on February 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My “Three Mongolians” was selected for inclusion in New Fibers 2008, an initiative of the Fiber Arts Network of Michigan, juried by Patricia Malarcher of the Surface Design Association. The show will run from May 6 through July 24 at two locations in Michigan — the University Art Gallery at Eastern Michigan University and [...]
