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Luminous Cloth

7/11/2017

 
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The amazing Shirley Medsker, my very first weaving teacher, now of Netarts OR, contributed her uncle's rose quartz to the installation
On the far wall just to the right of the blue and white piece (Blanket of Snow), is a small tapestry called "Hooray," that pretty much expresses how I feel about this show.
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The Installation team at the Latimer Center brought my dreams to life.
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The tapestry wall and the bench from which the previous photo was taken
Symmetry and asymmetry,
movement and quiet,
high and low--
their placement of  the pieces pulled me around and  through the room
​again and again.
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They even added an oscillating fan so the cloth is in motion as it was in my studio with the doors open -- only better.
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It is so interesting to design a body of work for a particular space and then see it there -- 
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to walk behind the swaths of fabric and peek through,
PictureSTRIPES: Needlepoint comic in three panels on the stage of this former two room school house.
and contemplate other work installed in ways I'd not have imagined.

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It is also particularly marvelous to work with people who love and understand textiles of all sorts.  The Latimer Center built  a custom climate controlled textile repository behind the gallery where they stabilize and/or repair historic quilts and house their textile collection.
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.Yesterday I left my campsite at the beach at 2 AM (the full moon made it feel like dawn), and  drove for 12 hours to get home, and though I had a lovely nap in a  park just off  the Interstate east of Portland, and a delicious breakfast in Hood River,  
I'm just a teensy bit out of it today.
 But so what?  
My shell peas are fattening nicely, 
 the raspberries starting to get ripe,
​and this show fills me with glee.
Jody Herriott
7/11/2017 03:18:56 pm

Lovely, I wish I was close enough to come see/be surrounded by the exhibit! I love the colors, the simplicity, the way it is hung. Simply elegant, elegantly simple.

Nancy Trissel
7/11/2017 03:45:46 pm

Oh Sarah, so aptly named: Luminous Cloth. Beautiful show! The videos really demonstrate how the pieces sing and dance and maybe play a little fiddle :-)

Tracy Hudson link
7/11/2017 03:50:44 pm

Congratulations!! It looks like a sacred space, and the layers and interactions are magical!

Juli Sampson
7/11/2017 03:52:32 pm

I cannot wait to get down to Tillamook to see the show. I have spent the afternoon on my deck weaving and thinking of your beautiful cloth as my strip grows. Thank you for so much inspiration!

Leonie Andrews link
7/11/2017 03:53:44 pm

Looks amazing Sarah and you kept many fringes! I am particularly taken with the predominantly indigo piece with the warm brown insertion and the snow blanket. Brava!

Jessie May Keller
7/11/2017 04:29:32 pm

So much beauty...artistry...an inspiration to all!

Dianna Harrington
7/11/2017 05:23:45 pm

Sarah I am so happy that I signed up for your blog. I love your style, your weaving and your drawings. They give me a insight in the artistry that lives in you. Some make me smile.
Your show inspires me to start weaving in earnest. You inspire me.

Giuliana Bond
7/11/2017 05:46:54 pm

Thank you for sharing Sarah. Just amazing😊 and inspirational.
I love reading your blog, I have admired your work since I was taught to weave tapestry and as my first solo project made the "bag on a box" which had appeared in SpinOff magazine!

Julia link
7/12/2017 03:19:11 am

This collection of weaving fills me will glee also! The hours and attention and love instilled in each strand comes through clearly and quietly. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Yvonne
7/12/2017 04:16:39 am

I am vacationing in Waldport next month .... your pics excite me as i plan to stop at the Latimer. ...a novice in awe !

Nancy Kramer
7/12/2017 05:27:14 am

What a marvelous show. Thanks for including us in both your creation of your cloth and in the ultimate hanging of them in space. It is truly magical.

Inger Seitz
7/12/2017 07:59:32 am

Wow, what a beautiful show! Can you tell me what fibers were used? I have always believed in: less is more.

Sarah
7/13/2017 07:59:03 am

Hello Inger -- Most is hand spun wool -- primarily singles -- Cormo, Polypay and a Suffolk X. On either side of the blue piece, however, the fiber is linen that I did not spin. And thank you for your lovely words.

Deanna Johnson
7/12/2017 11:54:40 am

Your work exudes joy! So do you.

Eileen
7/12/2017 08:27:05 pm

Sarah, so beautiful! A lot of my Damascus friends were there and have raves about the presentation! I hope to get down there to see it, but not till after my daughter's wedding.....

Sarah
7/13/2017 08:00:40 am

Thanks Eileen! Hope the wedding is all that you both dream it will be. And thanks for the Damascus Group feedback. It was wonderful to have them there.

Nancy B
7/13/2017 05:00:41 am

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

Lyn link
7/17/2017 02:57:59 am

Stunning. All of it. And you, of course.

Janet Kovach
7/18/2017 05:32:34 am

7.18.2017
Amazing what a single animal fiber can be coaxed into by the human hands of a weaver......I wonder if the sheep know....from Janet on the Atlantic Coast

grace
7/18/2017 06:16:42 am

So so beautiful.....full of light.

Lynn Fleharty
7/18/2017 06:26:03 pm

Love it! Such a celebration of cloth!

Jennie Jones Jeffries
7/19/2017 07:12:25 pm

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Others have said it so well, but I add my pleasure in seeing this work, though from very far away. You do love your life!


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