2008 Recycled Mini Series Review

In 2008, I also created the "Recycled Mini Series." All 51 of these pieces are 3" x 3", and mounted on canvas. I created them with scraps left over from the Recycled Fence Series #19 and the Recycled Multi Fence Series.


The "Recycled Mini Series" is a fun way for me to make small collages, and also to have less expensive work available for sale. Take a look.

2008 Recycled Fence Series

Above is a selection of my Recycled Fence Series, which was created in 2008.

In this series I'm taking older "Orange Construction Fence Series" pieces that I have grown tired of, or have decided didn't work out, and I cut them up to create newer, smaller pieces, which are mounted on canvas.

Take a look at all of the work in this series from 2008:

Recycled Fence Series #19 #1-#12 (12" x 12"), Recycled Fence Series #19 #13-#20 (6" x 6"), and Recycled Multi Fence Series #1-#12 ( 6" x 6").


I have really enjoyed working on this series! Cutting up older work, reassembling it, and adding more paint, is challenging and fun. I also love how the work looks when mounted on canvas. It's much more professional.

2008 Orange Construction Fence Series Review

In 2008, I continued working on my "Orange Construction Fence Series", and created 6 large pieces, Orange Construction Fence Series #57, #58, #59, #60, #61 and #62.

Though I don't love every piece I created, I feel I've had good growth, and I also took some risks by creating four blackwhite/gray pieces. Also, by continuing my practice of painting on both the front and the back sides of the fabric, I've learned that the colors are more muted on the back side of the fabric, and layers of fabric paint on top of other layers sometimes have a batik-like look to them. After I choose which side of the fabric I want to use for the actual piece, I then stitch it, to add texture and more line.

For comparison, if you want to read more about my 2007 Orange Construction Fence Series, here is my end of the year review I wrote a year ago.

Orange Construction Fence Series #63, which I started in late 2008, is still in progress. I'll post more about it shortly, and will also be finishing it soon.

2008 12 x 12 x 12 Series Review

In 2008, and in 2007, I've made one 12" x 12" mixed media piece each month, titled my "12 x 12 x 12 Series". The purpose has been to create work that's the same size, on a monthly basis, and to use my interest in printing from construction fences in smaller work. When working on smaller vs bigger work, the scale changes. It's an interesting challenge for me to use the construction fences in a different way for my 12" x 12" pieces than I do for my larger "Orange Construction Fence Series" (2008 summary about them tomorrow).

You can see all of my 2008 and 2007 monthly "12 x 12 x 12 Series" pieces on my website, or read about them here on my blog.

I do plan on continuing this project in 2009, because I have 28-31 days each month to create them, which allows more time and thought.

2008 Weekly Mixed Media/Felt Review

From 1999-2005 I created one small quilt a week. About a year ago, I bought a needle punch/needle felting machine. Not knowing what to do with it, I wanted to find a way to use it and learn more about needle felting. Because of my past experiences creating art on a weekly basis, I decided to create one 6" x 6" piece of mixed media felt each week in 2008.

The images posted here a summary of all 52 pieces I created. You can see my 2008 weekly mixed media work on my website, and read about it here on my blog.


Looking at these 52 pieces, there are some that I think are very beautiful, and that I love. There are some that are OK, and then there are some that I think are not at all successful art-wise, but may have been in terms of learning what to do or not to do, technique-wise.

Now, the question for me is, what am I going to do with a pile of 52 6" x 6" pieces of felt? I am thinking about that, and will post some thoughts about that soon.


Besides reading about my year of felting here on my blog, if you want to know more, you can read an article I wrote that's in Quilting Arts Magazine's December/January 2009 issue. It's about my 2008 my experiences with felting from art school through the present day. The title of the article is "Journal Felting with Punch", and can be found on page 76.


This is the last year I plan on working on a weekly project. It's very time consuming, and while the growth and finished products are very exciting, I think it's time to move on to other things. If you hear me say I'm going to do a weekly project again, please remind me to read my own blog so I can remind, and stop, myself before I dive in.

Also, if you have a minute, please visit Natalya Aikens's blog, where you can see her 2008 and 2007 fabric Journals. If you scroll down a little, on the right side you can see slide shows of her work. They are all 4" x 4", and are very beautiful!

2008 Boston MA Gallery Review

Anyone interested in galleries in Boston, Massachusetts might want to read "A See Change in 2008," by Cate McQuaid, from The Boston Globe on December 24, 2008. She reviews everything that's happened this past year.

You can also read my post "Gallery Changes in Boston," from June 25th to see more links to articles.

Thank You

There can be good and bad things about blogging, and the internet in general, but the kind networking of others is what I like best. I'd like to thank the following bloggers for mentioning Small Art Showcase. I created the site to help network of a group of artists who are trying to sell their work.

Thank you very much (in no particular order) to:

Tracy Helgeson
The Fine Art Department
Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt
Making A Mark
Natalya Aikens
Susan Constanse
Cecily K
Ruth Rae
Takeyce Walter
Liz Massey
Virginia Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Barton
Lisa Call
Kim Morin Weineck
Deidre Adams
Self Taught Artist
Uppercase Woman

If I missed anyone, I apologize. Please send me your link and I'll add you right away.

I'd also like to thank YOU for reading my blog, and also say thanks to everyone who is linked to it. I very much appreciate it.

(The picture in this post if of a ceramic birdhouse my family bought a very long time ago. If I remembered the name of the artist who made it, I'd mention it, but her name escapes me. It's given us great pleasure, not only for its beauty, but also when a bird family puts it to good use. And, it looks pretty cool when it's got snow on it.)

2008 Weekly Mixed Media Project

This is the front side of my 52nd, and final, Weekly Mixed Media piece for 2008. Below is the back side.


This piece was created with left over strips of black wool felt fabric from week #47, and also leftover felted scraps, also from previous but not necessarily identifiable weeks. I attached them by zigzaging them together on my sewing machine. No additional needle felting this week.

I am now finished creating work in this series. I started the first week of 2008, and even though there's still a half week left to the year, 52 pieces is it.

I'll post a summary of this project, probably next week. In the mean time, you can see all of my 2008 weekly mixed media work on my website, and read about it here on my blog.

Sculpture Garden - Part Two

Yesterday I showed pictures of one of the sculptures in our yard. Above is another sculpture we own, this one created by Leslie Wilcox. We fell in love with her work, the first time we saw it on exhibit at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA.

The picture above shows a T-Shirt she made for one of our trees. The left side is as seen in late June and right side is after we got about 20"+ of snow a few days ago.

Sculpture Garden

What a difference from six months ago, when we acquired a sculpture by Whitmore Boogaerts. We installed it in late June and now it's just about late December. What a difference in how it looks.

My family really enjoys our mini sculpture garden on our postage stamp of a yard. I think my neighbors do too. We'll never be the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (in Lincoln, MA), with our 1/10th of an acre, but we're trying.

We have a few other sculptures, one of which I also wanted to post today, but the snow blew off of it too quickly. Will try to get a good picture.

Rubberband Ball

I don't see any changes on my family's rubberband ball, front or back, since my last post.


I wonder if I should keep documenting it so often, at this point. I try to post updates every two weeks or so, but it's pretty fossilized and the outside bands aren't snapping or breaking the way they did a few months ago. I am going to consider posting monthly changes for a while. If only the thick black band would break. Then there would be a lot of fun changes.

If you'd like to see what it's looked like in the past, click here. To see what the first picture I posted, in July 2007, click here.

There's also a short movie of my rubberband ball on youtube, that shows the pictures I took from July 2007-June 2008.

House Painting

My husband and I took advantage of our first blizzard of the season by painting a bedroom in our house that seriously needed to be refreshed.

We finished painting a number of other rooms in our house in May 2007, and this is the last one that needed attention (for now).


When we did the rooms last time, it took us weeks to decide on the colors. We weren't disagreeing. We just couldn't decide. This time, I got a dozen paint swatch strips in the blue series from our local paint store, and we decided immediately. It was refreshing. We settled on Benjamin Moore "Blue Lapis" #2067-40.


I know interior house painting is a lot of work, and it requires patience, but it is so worth it!

Next, I'm going to make new curtains. I'm going funky, with a white-ish background and odd, randomly shaped black dots for the windows, and the white-ish and black stripes as the "door" for the bedroom closet. Since there are almost no fabric stores (locally any more), I have to thank Ikea for selling fabric. I bought this fabric a number of months ago, because I knew I'd be working on this room eventually. I wouldn't make a dress or shirt out of their fabrics, but it's fine for household items.

The two pictures are of the walls in progress. I'll try to take finished pictures when we're done with the walls, the (new) crown moulding is installed, and the curtains are up. Fun, fun, fun.

Construction Fence

As we brace for the first of a possible three snowstorms to hit Massachusetts in the next few days, I wanted to post a picture of a roll of (green) construction fence that's in my backyard. The picture above is with snow from a previous light snowfall, and below is what it looked like before the snow. I love how the snow gets in all of those nooks and crannies.


If it's at all visible after we get our possible 8-12"+ later today (from storm #1), I'll try to take another picture. That's if I'm not exhausted after all of the shoveling.

For anyone reading this post, who does not know me, I use construction fences to create monoprints with, to use in my art work, and I have a number of series that are appropriately named with the fence theme.


Here's the history of this roll of fencing:

This past summer, I went for my afternoon walk as I usually try to do. Apparently a neighbor put some items outside with a FREE sign a little while after I walked by their home.

Another neighbor, knowing I use construction fences to print off of, loaded this huge roll of green construction fencing in her car, and drove it a block over to my house.

Comparing the size of this roll to others I have in my "collection," I'm going to guess that there are 100 yards on this roll.

I don't need this much fencing, and I don't have the space for it. As you can tell from the picture above, it's currently living in my back yard. If you live near Natick, Massachusetts, and would like a few dozen yards or more (after the snow has melted off of it), please email me at jeanne@jeannewilliamson.com.

2008 Weekly Mixed Media Project

Above is the front side of my 51st Weekly Mixed Media piece this year, and below is the back. One more to go in this series of fifty-two.


I have to say that I like both the front and the back sides this week. Maybe the front a little more because it's got more texture and contrasting color. The back does look like an abstract painting. There were only a few weeks in this series that I liked the back sides almost as much as the front sides.

This week I used scraps cut from pieces created in previous weeks. Instead of placing the scraps in an organized way before felting them together ahead of time, I picked the pieces out, and felted them, one by one. No advance planning. It was much easier to work this way because I couldn't forget what went where, and as things shifted in felting, it didn't matter.

You can see the 51 pieces already created in my 2008 Weekly Mixed Media serieson my website, and read about it here on my blog.

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2010 Whitney Biennial

Check out the NY Times article "INSIDE ART: Whitney Chooses Biennial Curators" by Carol Vogel on December 12, 2008.

Quoting from the article: "For the next biennial, which will open in March 2010, the museum has paired an Italian-born curator with an international reputation with a homegrown senior curatorial assistant." Read more.

If you're not familiar with the show, visit the Whitney Biennial 2008 on the web.

From what I understand, the work for previous Biennial's was chosen by Whitney curators who found the work to be exhibited. For a number of years, the Whitney also had artist submission requirements posted on their website, if an artist wanted to send images for consideration for the Biennial. I have no idea if anyone who submitted work on their own was ever included in the show, but it was nice on my end at least, to be able to send images and hope someone looked at them. I don't know if they'll offer that again for 2010, but it's worth checking their website every now and then to see if it's posted.

More on Sol LeWitt

I posted a number of articles about the "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" on exhibit at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA), in North Adams MA, on November 27th. Below are some more articles I found. If you like Sol LeWitt, enjoy some interesting reading.

"Sol LeWitt's Dazzling Line Drawings" by Richard Lacayo for Time Magazine on Nov. 17, 2008.

"A Talk With: Joe Thompson" (MASS MoCA's director), by Richard Lacayo, on, November 13, 2008

"More Talk With: Joe Thompson," by Richard Lacayo, on, November 14, 2008

"Last Talk With: Joe Thompson", by Richard Lacayo, on, November 18, 2008

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Obama Transition Team and the Arts

The Arts Action Fund sent out an update on ArtsVote 2008, including the "2008 Election Impact on the Arts report." (PDF doc)

Also interesting is this from their website: "Americans for the Arts Submits Policy Brief to Obama Transition Team
12-01-2008: Americans for the Arts joined other national arts advocacy organizations in submitting this policy brief to the Obama Transition Office, and to former NEA chairman Bill Ivey, who heads the arts and cultural review team for the Transition.  The brief outlines six topics and provides policy recommendations in each of them for the incoming administration." (Read Arts Policy in the New Administration, November 21, 2008, Recommendations to the Office of Presidential Transition. PDF doc)

It is an absolutely exciting to read that the Arts are being discussed by the Obama Transition Team, and that there will be support in the White House!

The Artist's Valentine / Grant!

It's mid December, and it's time to get ready to submit my 2009 Artist's Valentine, which is due by January 19, 2009. Above is my entry that's made of felt, antique lace and thread.

I found out about The Artist's Valentine from a friend, who had been participating for a few years. Last year was my first time participating, and I posted about the Valentines I made on December 13, 2007, December 14, 2007, and also on December 16, 2007

The idea behind The Artist's Valentine is very clever. Artists submit handmade Valentines, made in any media they want, with no submission fee or jurying. I wasn't able to attend the sale last year, but what I understand is the Committee organizers price all submitted work, that ranges from simple cards to larger works of art, with prices from $3 - $300. The Valentines are sold in early February to the public, at the Kalliroscope Gallery in Groton, MA.

The money raised is used to provide grants to the artists who submitted Valentines. There is a deadline for the artists to submit their portfolio for grant review, and the juror each year is a person involved in the arts in the Boston area, typically from a museum or gallery.

Last year's juror was Allison Kemmerer, Curator of Art since 1950 and of Photography at the Addison Gallery of American Art. She awarded the 2008 grants to five artists, and I was one of the recipients. Last weekend I got to see the work of the other four awardees. I was very impressed, and felt like I was in very good company.


Above is the back side of the Valentine I'm submitting. There's a pocket attached so the sender can put a note inside. What's a Valentine without a note?

Small Art Showcase Update

Small Art Showcase now has 24 artists, and I'm going to leave it at that number for at least the time being. I would like to thank everyone on the site, and everyone who has been supportive in general. It's been a fair amount of work, but I am very glad to do it because it's an excellent networking opportunity, as well as a way to try to sell art work.

The traffic on the site is good for only being live for three weeks. I hope that it continues to increase as word gets out.

A few artists have already sold work via the site, which is very good news in this economy. I hope that continues.

The reason I started Small Art Showcase is because I know a lot of people who have said they want to buy my work, but don't have the room or money for a large piece. When I started making the Recycled Fence Series, which is my smaller and less expensive work, I thought it would be better to try to sell work with a group of artists than only on my own. And what a better way than by doing it via the internet. People can go art "shopping" any time of day, any where in the country, dressed or in their pajamas.

If the site's web traffic increases, and the artists start selling more work, I'll consider adding another 6 - 12 artists. To get the 24 artists currently on the site meant I probably spoke to close to 50 artists. Lot's of networking. There is now a waiting list, so if I add more artists, I don't have to do as much outreach as I did when I started.

2008 Weekly Mixed Media Project

It's been a busy week, so I rushed to make my 50th Weekly Mixed Media piece this year. The front is above, and below is the back side. Fifty created, two more to go.


I used scraps from last week's piece, and added some other brightly colored scraps to perk it up. I have a lot of scraps left over from doing this project every week this year.

Because I wasn't totally paying attention when I was getting started with the felting machine, I broke a needle. Grrr. Two more weeks left, and two more needles in my drawer. I guess I should take a walk to the sewing store and get another half dozen or more needles. I hope they have them in stock because The Fabric Place, where I also could have gotten needles, closed last week.

The reason I've been so busy is that I've been helping my friend Jon, who owns Cocoapelli Chocolates, box chocolates. It's his busy time of year. If you are in need of chocolates, I highly recommend Cocoapelli Chocolates. They are made by hand, and are absolutely delicious.

You can see my 2008 weekly mixed media work (so far) on my website, and read about it here on my blog.

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American Style Ad

I don't usually advertise, but when an offer came buy to have an ad in American Style Magazine's February 2009 issue that's focusing on Fiber, I decided to give it a try. Two organizations I belong to offered a rate for a part of their page, and I decided to be part of the Surface Design Association ad.


I don't have an actual copy of the magazine, so I don't know where exactly the SDA ad is, but I hope that the whole page is noticed by readers, and in general, that my ad is seen. As far as I know, placement on the page was random, but I'm pleased.

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12 x 12 x 12 December 2008

I've been working on my 12 x 12 x 12 Series for two years, and above is the one I made for the month of December.

For most of the past two years, I've used different large buildings as my inspiration for many of my monthly pieces, and all of my large work. To get images to use as inspiration, which for me is a large scale construction project that's in the beginning to middle stages, requires some luck and good timing when out and about. The luck is finding a good project, and the timing is going by it when there's good day light, and when I can get out of the car and take some pictures.


I've never used a home construction project as inspiration for this series until now. There's a home at the end of my street that was knocked down, and is being replaced, by the same owner who has lived there longer than my 20 years in the neighborhood.

I've recently noticed some home construction projects are using a plywood-like board, with one green side on the outside, for the walls, and a similar board on the roof, that's a red-brown.

Part of my routine is to try to get a brisk half hour walk in at least 5 days a week, if possible. This means I get to see the progress being made on this home just about every day. I took the picture above a few days ago, and used it toward this piece.

The colors aren't my usual "Jeanne" colors, the grid is wobbly, and the abstraction is really out of scale, and I couldn't be happier. I really like it! It's more playful and relaxed than most of the other 12 x 12's I did this year. That makes my reason for working on my 12 x 12 x 12 Series well worth doing for the past two years, and for the new year to come.

If you want to know more about this series, you can read past posts about it here on my blog, or see all of the completed work on my website.

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Another Sweater

I couldn't help myself. I have an old Ann Taylor sweater from the sales rack 8-10 years ago, that's very comfortable, with a nice zipper closure, but I felt that it was a little boring. I've been trying to think of how I could tweak it to make it more funky, and I couldn't come up with anything. Then, all of the sudden I realized that it would be fun to give it a collar and some patch pockets.


In the attic was an old sweater that may have been my husbands (?) that I had already cut up for some other project. It has a nice black/white/grey knitted herringbone type of a pattern, that I thought would work well with this sweater. I cut four few strips that were 1.5" tall and sewed them on to make the "collar". Then I added the two patch pockets in the front, because it needed some balance.

The collar is reminiscent of the peter pan collars from yesteryear, which I have always been fond of. Now the sweater is funkier, and I'll enjoy wearing it as though it was brand new. Total dollar cost = nothing. Total time = 20 minutes.

You can see other sweaters I've tweaked by clicking here.

Rubberband Ball

I don't see any changes with my family's rubberband ball since my last post two weeks, front or back.


Two weeks ago, after I posted my biweekly update, I realized there was a change that I didn't notice, and therefore didn't mention then, so I'll point it out now.


The arrow on the photo above points to a broken white rubberband from Lees Market (in Westport Massachusetts). Usually I wouldn't know where a certain band was from, except this one says "Lees" on it. It's near the front, but not too obvious from the front photos, though it is there. I guess it must have broken 2-4 weeks ago.

Note, I do know the greenish bands were from Whole Foods, and most of the tan ones were from our mail carrier. A lot of the colored bands are from produce, like broccoli.

I try to post updates every two weeks or so. If you'd like to see what it's looked like in the past, click here. To see what the first picture I posted, in July 2007, click here.

There's also a short movie of my rubberband ball on youtube, that shows the pictures I took from July 2007-June 2008.

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Radical Knitting (Crochet)

My hero, Stephen Colbert, ran a great segment on the Colbert Report about artist Jerilea Zempel, who creates amazing crochet projects.

Watch the video from December 3, 2008 called "Nailed 'Em - Radical Knitting, Our ever-vigilant Border Patrol not only keeps foreigners out, they prevent traveling Americans from coming back in." (Note: there's a commercial if you watch the video. Unavoidable. Sorry.)

You can also read about her in this article, "Keene artist had hard time getting back into US, Woman was detained by Customs and Border Protection because of an SUV sketch she made for artwork," on October 4, 2008, by Lohr McKinstry.

This story is true, and beyond belief.

Tagged

I've been tagged a few times, and never followed through with it. (Sorry.) This morning I was tagged again, this time by Cynthia who has a blog called art for housewives. I felt guilty turning her down, so I decided to do it, focusing on art.

If you're tagged, the rules are:

- Link to the person who tagged you.
- Post the rules on your blog.
- Write six random things about yourself.
- Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
- Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog (or in my case, since I don't have or like to comment on blogs, I'll email them.)
- Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Here are my six random (art) related things:

1 - My major in art school started out in jewelry, but I was really unhappy, so the school let me switch to fibers since it was also in the "crafts" department and I had completed almost all of the requirements at the time.

2 - One of my two art school jobs was as an elevator operator in the dorm. It had its ups and downs.    :)

3 - I made my first art quilt was made in 1977 (pictured above), in the summer between my junior and senior year. I had no idea a "movement" was starting, and I didn't even know what an art quilt was. Was that term even around then?

4 - I had no idea what to do for a career after majoring in fibers, so I went to graduate school and got my masters in art education, focusing on teaching art to children with disabilities. My most favorite art teaching job was at United Cerebral Palsy in Brooklyn NY, where my students were passionate about art, and the staff was wonderful to work with.

5 - I gave up trying to find an art and special ed teaching job when I returned to Massachusetts in 1982, because there were no art teaching jobs anywhere in MA due to "Proposition 2 1/2," a huge statewide tax cut. I interned, and then had a few jobs doing computer graphics, including a few years as a type designer.

6 - In art school, the focus in the fibers department was on weaving. I taught myself how to paint on fabric in 1984 when I wanted to paint some baby t-shirts for a friend. That turned in to a small business named "Wear Art Thou" where I handstamped hundreds of baby clothes a year, for many many years, and that's how I started painting and handstamping on fabric in my art work.


I visited the blogs of those I have linked from mine, and found a number of people have been tagged recently, so I don't want to re-tag them. Please forgive me if you're busy, but I'm tagging:

Catherine Carter
Elizabeth Barton
Virginia Fitzgerald
Nancy Minksy
Adria Arch
Linda Frost

2008 Weekly Mixed Media Project

This is the front side of my 49th Weekly Mixed Media piece this year. Below is the back side. Forty-nine created, three more to go.


Like last week, I decided to use a piece of antique lace, but this week I didn't put a piece of sheer fabric on top of the lace before felting it. The results are much nicer, in my opinion, but the process was more difficult. There were a few times that the lace got stuck in my machine, at the beginning when I was felting it upside down. It didn't get stuck as much as a Valentine I'm working on for the Artist's Valentine project has, but more on that in a few days.

You can see my 2008 weekly mixed media work (so far) on my website, and read about it here on my blog.

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Repairing/Patching Clothing

In an effort to save two pairs of my husband's jeans, I've been repairing/patching them. It's a little to save money, but mostly because they are really soft, and he loves wearing them.

When I was in high school, my friend Mike had a pair of jeans that were patched so much that they weren't jeans any more, but were many (many!) small pieces of stitched fabric that were holding his pants together. I wish I had a picture of them because they were beautiful. They were full of color and pattern, and the envy of any hippie.

At this time in our lives, I don't want to replicate Mike's jeans, but simply fix them by adding a little color but nothing inappropriate for a fifty-something year old man.


My solution was to put the denim patching material behind the hole (in the inside of the pants), and to do what I call "scribble stitching" back and forth over the hole and the patch material. On the pair of jeans with the black denim patch, I used black thread (shown at the very top), and on the pair with the blue denim patch (above), I used a blue-ish gray thread, that matched the jeans as best as I could. The difference in thread made the repair job look totally different.

My patching project once again reminds me of my textile/mixed media artist hero, Dorothy Caldwell. I once attended a talk of hers, where she showed images of work she's repaired, and also of textiles she's collected (from antique and used clothing stores) that were repaired by the previous owner/s. In focusing on the fine detail of the repairs she showed, you could see that the beauty in the handwork work. I tried to find some of the images from her talk on the web, but couldn't find any, so you'll have to take my word on it.

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