"As my illusions about my seperateness dissolve, the artist within me emerges and I find the message i’ve been searching for is astonishingly simple." I love this sentence. Thank you for sharing your story of your evolution as an artist. Yay quilting! Yay Kisses 5 cents!
This is beautiful. I did the opposite to you, started out working with textiles and made my way to painting, although I’m not sure if I’m a painter really either. I love that you’ve settled on patchwork as a medium—there’s such a rich history there to explore and many contemporary makers blurring the lines between craft and art. So thrilled you got your first sewing machine!
Oh so cool! I'd love to see your textile work sometime. Do you have it posted anywhere? What I'm loving about quilting is how abundant fabric is and it actually feels like i'm in service to something by keeping it out of the landfill. If I don't like where my paintings are going that seems to be compounded by the fact that I feel like I'm wasting all of the plastic packaging and putting paint into the water supply. lol but I have a love hate with painting. Have you considered merging the two mediums?
I have the same reservations with paints too. I could talk to you for hours about this! So I started out as a textile designer, then somehow started framing pieces and then it became “art”, and I spent many years exhibiting textile art. I used natural pigments to dye my textiles and started making paint with the pigments which led to painted textiles, so yes I’ve mixed the mediums. That took me down the painterly path. I see all my work as textile work because it’s just a canvas that gets stretched (or maybe not) but nowadays I tend to paint what I used to appliqué and draw what I used to stitch. Anyway, you and your sewing machine will have an adventure!
I, too, have an incredibly tumultuous relationship with a parent largely due to my sexuality (and the peripherals that come with it) and extremely different perspectives on what it means to be family. I’m sending love, and I’m so happy you’re finding a steadfastness in yourself!
...powerful beautiful stuff...thanks for sharing your journey...what an awesome close "In making art, we not only see ourselves but also invite others to truly see us and share in our experience."...
"As my illusions about my seperateness dissolve, the artist within me emerges and I find the message i’ve been searching for is astonishingly simple." I love this sentence. Thank you for sharing your story of your evolution as an artist. Yay quilting! Yay Kisses 5 cents!
This is beautiful. I did the opposite to you, started out working with textiles and made my way to painting, although I’m not sure if I’m a painter really either. I love that you’ve settled on patchwork as a medium—there’s such a rich history there to explore and many contemporary makers blurring the lines between craft and art. So thrilled you got your first sewing machine!
Oh so cool! I'd love to see your textile work sometime. Do you have it posted anywhere? What I'm loving about quilting is how abundant fabric is and it actually feels like i'm in service to something by keeping it out of the landfill. If I don't like where my paintings are going that seems to be compounded by the fact that I feel like I'm wasting all of the plastic packaging and putting paint into the water supply. lol but I have a love hate with painting. Have you considered merging the two mediums?
I have the same reservations with paints too. I could talk to you for hours about this! So I started out as a textile designer, then somehow started framing pieces and then it became “art”, and I spent many years exhibiting textile art. I used natural pigments to dye my textiles and started making paint with the pigments which led to painted textiles, so yes I’ve mixed the mediums. That took me down the painterly path. I see all my work as textile work because it’s just a canvas that gets stretched (or maybe not) but nowadays I tend to paint what I used to appliqué and draw what I used to stitch. Anyway, you and your sewing machine will have an adventure!
I, too, have an incredibly tumultuous relationship with a parent largely due to my sexuality (and the peripherals that come with it) and extremely different perspectives on what it means to be family. I’m sending love, and I’m so happy you’re finding a steadfastness in yourself!
Thanks! I hope you find it also if you haven't. :') It just kinda takes some radical acceptance about things
I am really enjoying exploring your substack. Thank you for sharing your journey and ideas x
Thank you so much!!
...powerful beautiful stuff...thanks for sharing your journey...what an awesome close "In making art, we not only see ourselves but also invite others to truly see us and share in our experience."...