Re-Engagement and the Challenge of Faces
There’s no doubt that summertime is consuming: farming, tending the Creamery, animals, visiting relatives. Projects had to be “pick-up and put-down-able,” easy to carry around, and look like you actually made some progress after an hour (which would be about the time most I’d have for a sitting). These parameters meant that tapestry wasn’t on […]
Unicorn in a New Medium
For the past year and a half, punch needle rug hooking has been a new fiber medium for me. After taking a one-on-one intensive session at the home studio of Amy Oxford (pioneer of the Oxford Punch Needle), I was soon poke-poke-poking wool yarn into a deeply textured pictorial form. Originating in eastern Canada and […]
Being Unicorn
I’ve recently been leading a series of creative writing workshop, based on Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones.” One of her challenges is to do a timed free-write starting with the prompt “Be an animals.” Of course I chose the unicorn. The following is somewhere between poetry and stream-of-consciousness. I am a unicorn—graceful, curving, smaller […]
