Excellence in Fibres - Online exhibition - Dead Proud

There is no other way to say it... I'm Dead Proud "Thank you for entering your work in 2017 Excellence in Fibers.  Although your work wasn't selected for the full exhibition, it was scored highly by the jurors, just outside of the final selections. Your work is in the group that goes into the online gallery, " Marcia Young If you go to the online exhibition you will see why I am so honoured to be up there with those artists' work.  Take a look.  It's rich it's diverse, it's colourful, it's meaningful, it's a pleasure.

A terrifically exciting development

Can't talk about it now or I would have to dip you in Indigo and then bleach back, sew you up and hang you out to dry.
Here is a clue: more on this when I get the snail reaches me.

What have I got myself into?

Latest work:
Visit Geek Free Vancouver.
Purchase old broken cpu’s.
Now you have to clean them up -
Harmful? One guy on the internet says “I’ve been touching thermal cream daily for years, and I’m not dead yet” (but you have lost your sense of safety awareness me-thinks).

So, blue gloves on, face-mask, perhaps and 70% isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol to you and me) swabbed onto a bit of John’s old Tee and away we go.

Designing a cape for Cyborg Station 9, Evolution of Moral Progress.

Back working - New Studio, South End, Saltspring.

Shadow Puppets - Genus 394Wz species 1

It feels so good.  I don’t have all the goodies out, that those of you who have seen my studio know I like to be surrounded by:- beads and bling from the souks of Oman, raffia from Nigeria, powdered earth from Oman, Indigo balls from Nigeria, buttons, needles, scissors and threads from absolutely everywhere I have lived. Far too many skeins of half-used wool, half used fat quarters of fabric, papers, plastics, wire and fibre optic cable.... you name it I probably have it.
But half of it all is still in boxes.  Nonetheless (I love using that word for some reason), I am back to working in my studio and it does feel good.

First job today: to create shadow puppets and then there was a need for some of my shibori creatures to be waterproof, so I made some out of ironed bubble wrap.
The amazing thing is that I found all the materials and equipment I needed.  So I am smiling.
Here are the creatures sitting on a piece of remnant black (think negative space ) de-puppeted card-stock.

Come and visit, the studio is open for visitors!