habituated hindsight

Three Blankets, One Beach. The winter wind, white sky. There were once three blankets: the purple one, the green one and the pastel rainbow. They were all similar yet very different. They were for different people, marking different life events. They were brought to a beautiful beach at Rhos on Sea and displayed in space to give them time and space to breathe before leaving my house to be united with their respective rightful owners. And then, as it often happens, something unexpectedly beautiful had occurred. As we tried to photograph me presenting the blankets, nature had other ideas. Wind had different plans. There was no way what we presumed and perhaps planned…

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lace lingers

Continuing on my last STARRY eyed post looking up to heavens for answers to the nature of our being, I want to bring us down to Earth, back to our bodies and embodied experiences (don't yawn yet, it gets deeper). I want to look at the connections we create and continue in our making. The themes that keep us going, in fact propel our creativity forward. Other people To be precise, the important adults that shaped us as kids. It would have been your 89th birthday this year, and I miss you now more than ever. As I was frantically making star shaped blankets for all my friends, I looked at them one…

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octagonal optometry

As it turns out, I have another blog post in me for this year.  Another final one, before the year 2022 is finished, and before I leave you all, my lovely readers, to your own devices, and to perhaps catch up on my many a blog posts that you may have missed over the last 4 years.  Oh my, I have just had to check, and I have been writing my regular, monthly blog posts since 2019.  Whilst we are getting sentimental, please indulge me.  I have been writing my blog posts since 2014, which means that 8 years have passed since I started writing blog posts about my crochet endeavours. I have…

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yellowware yielding

Today, for the new year, i am presenting my oldest video work EVER! And whyever not... Happy New Year everyone! Hopefully you have made it through 2021 with whatever you needed most. Something happened early last year, and as the consequence of that, this appeared to me: I have not ever uploaded the video compilations from my Visual Art Degree show anywhere at all online! I know, it happened a very very VERY looooong time ago, but still.... Onto my YouTube channel they consequently went as the result of this realisation! Check my Youtube channel HERE! https://youtu.be/07vswWMLGb8 Case of video disappearance I feel very fortunate to be able to show you these videos.…

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