I need lots of feedback!!!

I would like feedback on the following images. What do these motifs/forms/objects/materials make you think of? Do they evoke any sort of thought, feeling, emotion? Do you want to touch them so you can understand more or is the visual enough information? I numbered each image so if there is a particular images that is your favorite please let me know what number and why. Just list the first things that come to your mind. You don’t have to know anything about my work at all, I just want to know what these things make you think of. If you can spare five minutes please give me your opinion. Also I know the pictures don’t portray scale so keep in mind that these objects are small (most of them are 2-4 inches). Feel free to pass this on to all your friends because I need as much feedback as possible, thanks!!!

Combining materials

These are some of my first samples combining the technical processes that I’m learning in my metals & jewelry class with the processes that I’m using in the fibers department. Some of the samples are still in progress.

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Hat Netting, Linen, and Distorted Silk Dupioni

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Hat Netting, and Linen

Materials used: Copper, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Distorted Silk Dupioni, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Silver, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Stitch Spectacular

The Stitch Spectacular show opened last night!

The show was a huge success and all of the work was amazing!

This is the last panel that I finished over the break. Click here to see it on the Stitch Spectacular website.

Check out the website because they are posting all the work soon: Stitch Spectacular!

Sarasota and Stitch Spectacular!

I’m back from Florida and got the good news that I made it into the Stitch Spectacular show! YAY! My hand embroidered piece called Time Frames will be in the show. I have to finish one more panel and then it will be complete. It will be at Dimensions Gallery in Savannah, GA during the month of January so everyone in Savannah has to check it out!

I had a really nice time in Sarasota, FL visiting family and got the chance to go to the American Craft Show. It was nice to see the work that is out in the craft field and what is popular right now. I gravitated towards the glass and jewelry at the show (which probably isn’t that surprising..haha). A few of the artists that I liked are: Nancilee Woodyard, Jessica Fields, Erica Zap, Gertrude Graham Smith, Genevieve Yang, Mary Darwall, and Laurie Thal. There was also a SCAD fibers alumni at the show, Jen Swearington. It was exciting to see someone who graduated from SCAD at the show. Overall I really enjoyed the American Craft Show and would like to go to future shows.

Dichotomy

I would like to share something that we are discussing in my Artist as Designer class with Cat Chow.

“Dichotomy between/of: the conceptual and the three-dimensional, the scientific and the romantic, the rational and the irrational, the geometric and the organic, the abstract and the figurative, the simple and the complex, the rigid and the pliable, resisting and letting go, the permanent and the ephemeral, the horizontal and the vertical, feeling/emotion and physical form, joining and cutting, construction and destructive, destruction and reconstruction, breaking and repairing, tenderness and violence, love and hate, harmony and conflict, frustration and happiness, cusses and failure, birth and death, youth and age, the isolated individual and the shared awareness of the group, the one and the other, the private and the public, sculpture and environment, art and life, addition and subtraction, interiority and exteriority, verticality and horizontality, process and object, creative vision and the final result, natura naturans and natura naturata, the passive and the active, mind and matter, repetition and difference.”

- Louise Bourgeois

I read an interview with Louise Bourgeois from the book PressPLAY: Contemporary Artists in Conversation and I found it really interesting to read her thoughts about memory. I don’t necessarily relate to her views on this subject directly but I do connect to it at some level. It has certainly made me think about memory from a different perspective. The one thing that sticks in my mind is how she stated that she wanted to give her work permanence. I really relate to that statement and have wrote down that exact sentence several times.

I have really enjoyed reading interviews in this book and definitely recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary artists. It has been really beneficial to read about different artists’ thought processes.

Survey, please help :)

Please post five things (can be anything) that remind you of something/someone and evoke a memory or thought. I’m starting a “memory journal” where I’m going to write down everything that I see daily that evokes a memory. I’d also like to do a collective journal from your responses. I think it will tell me a lot about which memories are the strongest, etc. Try to list things that you see and think about often. For example, when I was at the flea market on Saturday I saw a punch bowl set, that reminded me of my Grandma & how we’d have it at family events all the time. She just recently gave this set to my Mom and now it’s already illustrating a bunch of connections.

You can list the simple connection that the object relates to if you feel like sharing, but you don’t have to. It can be as simple as a person’s name & shouldn’t go into too much detail. If you’d like you can email me your list instead of posting it on my blog, it’s up to you. Abbles6@gmail.com

Thanks!!!

I just wanted to add that there is no deadline to this question. You can take your time, but please respond. So far it’s really interesting comparing what everyone has written.