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.
The Installation team at the Latimer Center brought my dreams to life.
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.
movement and quiet,
high and low--
their placement of the pieces pulled me around and through the room
again and again.
They even added an oscillating fan so the cloth is in motion as it was in my studio with the doors open -- only better.
It is so interesting to design a body of work for a particular space and then see it there --
to walk behind the swaths of fabric and peek through,
STRIPES: 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.
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.
.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.
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.
