Congratulations, Miriam, on what sounds like a wonderful project!! Your
creativity in adapting to the theme to lace - and your ingenuity at
salvaging "junk" to make an artistic statement with lace (obviously NOT
junk!), are definitely indications to me that you aren't just "a
crafter"!!
Proud to "know" you in Virginia, USA
Clay
Miriam wrote:
Dear Spiders,
Last week-end we opened at our local small museum an exhibition of
local artists. For a town of 24.000 having 44 artist show their work
is quite remarkable. The subject given by the curators was "The
desert". To tell the truth most of us hated this theme as we are
getting a bit tired of the desert, but for somebody coming from the
center of the country it sounds very exotic. When I presented my idea
, it was rejected, it was thought to be too crafty. But the local lady
who was responsible for the organisation, didn't give in and in the
end my work was accepted.
I didn't have much time for an elaborate lace piece about the desert.
I was just about to throw out some used CDs when I came up with an
idea. (thanks to CD 2000). I took 7 CDs. On each one of them I glued a
photo taken from my back garden showing the desert.l Barren hills,
camels, rocks etc. For each of these CDs I made a lace animal living
in the desert. I'm not big in drawing but with books and pictures and
lace 2000 I managed to get an eagle, a camel, an oryx and a mouse. I
then added a spider and its web and two scorpions fighting. It was all
done in tape lace. no more than 8 bobbins. The result was quite
impressive, and the feedback I get is very good. People just stand
and admire it since it is so different from the paintings and the big
photos which others submitted. So craft or art the people don't really
care about the definition as long as they like it and it interests
them. The exhibition will be open till December which will give a lot
of people the opportunity to see it and since we are heading towards
the High Holidays we hope that a lot of visitors to our town will also
visit the museum.
To all of you who celebrate New Year this week end a Happy New Year.
Miriam
in Arad, Israel
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