On Jul 29, 2007, at 14:53, Mary L. Tod wrote:
This list is off the top of my head in about a minute and not
thought out,
but who else do you think should be on it?
Devon
I would also include Janice Blair and Tamara Duvall, who contribute
designs regularly to the IOLI Bulletin.
Thanks, Mary, but I don't think I'd meet the standards :)
Actually, although I do try to, both, use the old techniques in
slightly different ways and (to) modify old techniques slightly to suit
the needs of my patterns, I don't think of myself as being an
artist-designer and certainly not a "modern" one. "Contemporary",
perhaps, in the sense that I design "with" (con), or within, my own
times (tempora). But not "modern", as I understand "modern" -- pushing
the envelope of shapes and fibers drastically (dare I say "in a
revolutionary manner"? <g>).
I lack the personality traits -- the vision, the fire and the ego --
necessary to think of pushing in the "lacemaking as art" direction.
None of my designs are intended to be displayed at galleries and
museums as something unique. All of them are meant to -- hopefully --
seduce some other lacemaker into reproducing them, perhaps learning a
new trick in the process, perhaps being stimulated enough to use that
trick in a design of her own. Even if that doesn't happen -- not
everyone has an "itch" to design and work out her own patterns from
scratch -- that lacemaker will have something to show for the hours of
effort (and fun); an accomplishment to be proud of and to bolster her
self-confidence.
My goal is to appeal to the average lacemaker. Not to the art
collector, not to the lace connoisseur, not even to a historian or a
serious student. So I try to guess and anticipate her tastes; maybe
broaden them just a tiny little stitch... But I do not try to push them
into radically new dimensions, because they, mostly, match my own --
fairly pedestrian and staid and ordinary -- tastes perfectly :)
If asked "who, in the history of the lace world, do you identify with
the most?" I'd have to say it's the R.M of the Neuw Modelbuch, rather
than people like Thomas Lester or Felix Aubert.
Slightly off-topic, but only slightly... Here's a -- possibly
cautionary -- tale of applied art textile which had been catapulted
into the pure art category...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/us/29quilt.html
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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