At the time this seemed fine. I was in love with my ipad art and did not expect to want to do any other kind of art ever again. (Just like that time I got toe shoes and had to buy toe socks to go in them. I thought I would always wear toe socks so I got rid of all of my regular socks.)
So the fiber art stuff simply decants into the entire house. Somehow, instead of going away, my art studio superimposes itself out into the whole house. It surrounds me in baskets of yarn and fleece all over the place, and I seriously expect to not be interested? Actually, I wanted to use it all up, remember, because it is so....physical?
I want to Simplify.
But of course as we know now, Real Stuff also has a place and does sometimes call me. Maybe I'm just downsizing. I am intrigued with the way that looms work. In previous projects I explored peg looms. Now I wonder about tightly warped, but still super simple looms.
I order an inexpensive tapestry loom and put it together. It fits beautifully onto my wooden painting easel. But after assembling and warping up this new loom, what do I do, weave something?
No, no, no! I build more looms! A couple of even simpler looms, from yardsticks, paint stir sticks, and picture frames, which I pick up by the roadside trash/free pile on my morning walk. I want to pare it down to basics.
Now, I have a nifty quick and easy loom that takes up no more space than a book to replace the room sized loom. One that can do the same, albeit much smaller, kind of tight warp weaving I was doing on the room sized loom.
Instead of making a commitment to a big project, this loom is more like sketchbook loom, portable and quick. Instantly, two weavings pop right out of the new little loom I have made.
The loom is a matrix, a new tool, like the studio itself is also a matrix, a tool. Or even the idea of studio, all the way to the artist As matrix. I wonder what magical fiber art will emerge next from this constantly shape-changing art studio.
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard P. Feynman
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