tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46842576134775790902024-02-24T15:47:00.557-05:00Bhakti Ziekweaver-artist-teacher-writer-reader-baker-free advice-erratic bloggerBhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-54359994578892858932018-08-30T23:23:00.000-04:002018-08-30T23:23:46.159-04:00Website for New WorkIf you follow this blog, you probably realize I haven't been using it very often. I will leave it in place, but if you want to see my new work, or know what I am up to, please visit my website:<br />
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<span style="color: #006621; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-9305397289335385402016-10-30T15:15:00.000-04:002016-10-30T15:15:18.778-04:00Lexicon -- An Exhibition of Weavings by Bhakti ZiekI have a new exhibition up at <a href="http://www.bigtowngallery.com/exhibitions" target="_blank">BigTown Gallery</a> in Rochester, VT from October 26 - November 26, 2016. It is called <i>Lexicon</i> and includes new weavings as well as some older ones. I have posted images on my Facebook page but will put them here too.<br />
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The <i>Refuge</i> series (1 - 8 shown below) are all 8"h x 6"w, woven using taqueté or plain weave structures, composed of seine twine warp (hidden) and wool, rayon chenille, and metallic yarns.<br />
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Taqueté Bands, Taqueté Rabbit and Samit Duck are part of the didactic series about structures. Some of this series could not be shown, due to space considerations, but I will put them at the end of the images.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Taqueté Bands</i><br />29.5"h x 15.5"w, 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Taqueté Rabbit</i><br />18"h x 26"w, 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Samit Duck</i><br />16.5"h x 26.5"w, 2016<br /></td></tr>
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I wove <i>Florence Cross-Sections</i> and <i>Birds 2</i> in the summer of 1997 at <a href="http://www.fondazionelisio.org/index.php?courses" target="_blank">Fondazione Lisio</a>. They are both damask liserie, one woven by hand (<i>Birds 2</i>) and one woven on a fully electronic loom at Rubelli Silk Mills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Florence Cross-Sections</i><br />31"h x 46.5"w, 1997</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Birds 2</i><br />9.75"h x 7.25"w, 1997</td></tr>
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<i>Quote</i> is the beginning of a series that I still have to weave. It is samitum structure; a motif handpicked on an 8 shaft loom based on a historical textile.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Quote</i><br />3.25"h x 3.5"w, 2007</td></tr>
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<a href="http://markagoodwin.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Mark Goodwin</a> made a vitrine for me to show four weavings made circa 1990 using lampas structure and some brocading.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of <i>Pink Lampas Study</i><br />80"h x 8"w</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of <i>Gold Diamond Lampas Study</i><br />69"h x 8.5"w</td></tr>
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There wasn't enough wall space to hang the following five pieces, but they definitely are part of the <i>Lexicon</i> work.<br />
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<strong>Bhakti Ziek </strong>doesn’t like to be asked “what is it?” about her work. She responds, “It’s a weaving.” If she were a scientist, she would be a research scientist, freely exploring possibilities without expectations of outcomes and end use. As an artist, her favorite pieces are her studies. For her exhibition, Lexicon, at the BigTown Gallery Projects Room, she has created a series investigating three ancient weave structures: taqueté, samitum, and lampas. </div>
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Ziek is a renowned teacher (she says her “higher self” is when she is teaching), and she often leads workshops that cover these three types of interlacement, which probably developed one from the other. Ziek likes to refer to her lineage as a thread of weavers going back thousands of years. As early as the 2nd century, some of these weavers were using taqueté to make figured textiles. Today the looms have changed, but the structures that create the cloth remain the same. In Lexicon, Ziek is attempting to bring the audience into the work by explaining how they are made.</div>
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Stitched samplers, illuminated paintings, Mughal miniature paintings, and Sassanian, Safavid, and Ottoman textiles are a few of the influences Ziek sees in her work. Letters have often been a component of her work, but now they are didactic as well as visual. She says that making these weavings has been an elusive quest—that she isn’t quite there, but hopes to get there. Then she laughs and says, “isn’t all life like that; it’s all a journey of hope.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Janie Woodbridge (assistant); Donna Anthony, Kat Nicholas, Monica Brown, Daniel Garver, Lew Greenwald, Joshua Kovarik, Rachel Qualliotine, Nikki Curry, Haley Toelle, Morgan Elkins, Jacqueline Sullivan</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are 12 people in the images above but <a href="http://janiewoodbridge.com/" target="_blank">Janie Woodbridge</a>, pictured at top, was my assistant, and together we launched the 11 new weavers shown below. Classes at places like <a href="http://penland.org/index.html" target="_blank">Penland</a> self-select, and I am sure that teachers each think they have the perfect class with the right students, and perhaps each class feels like the best one you have ever taught, but I know for a fact that Janie and I made a perfect team for the perfect class and together we launched eleven new weavers into the world. A couple of the students had woven a bit before, but they still qualified as beginners and I think we can safely include them in this launch.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Turned twills by Daniel Garver; tapestry by Morgan Elkins; plain weave blocks by Janie Woodbridge; Bhakti Ziek removing her plain weave linen cloth; work by Kat Nicholas (double weave; twill blocks; clasped weft scarf)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost immediately each student found their own path. This was a group that grasped the principles of weave so quickly that I had to abandon any thought of a plan, and just let each of them lead the way. You can see from the images above that they explored a huge variety of woven possibilities--twills, overshot, monk's belt, huck lace, block weaves, double corduroy, double weave, tapestry, clasped wefts, woven shibori, deflected warps and wefts, pulled thread plain weave, and shaped plain weave. There was more, and of course there were color and material studies along with the structural research. Clean selvedges were not stressed but they all wove long lengths with straight edges. This class had all winners. And watching them, I was the biggest winner of them all. I love weaving--everyone who knows me knows how enthusiastic I can get about the process of weaving--but these new weavers made me love weaving even more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We packed so much into two weeks. The studio was in excellent condition thanks to the work of <a href="http://www.amandathatch.com/" target="_blank">Amanda Thatch</a> and her summer intern, Audrey Schroeder. Amanda also accepted my invitiation to talk to the class about her own work in weaving. I wanted the class to be exposed to as many ways of approaching weaving as possible, and Amanda's wonderful ikats were a great introduction into how dye and structure can work together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ellistextiles.com/" target="_blank">Catharine Ellis</a> lives in the region and has been instrumental in helping the textile area of Penland for many years. I met her years ago in the 80s when I was at Penland and have admired everything she has done ever since. She came with bundles of woven shibori, another way that dye and structure can interact, and filled the table with inspiration. Her book, <i>Woven Shibori</i>, is going to be re-released soon with all new images and the dye portion has been rewritten and deals with natural dyes. One of the students, Monica Brown, also lives in this area and she is an herbalist, so it was a perfect introduction for her to meet Catharine and try woven shibori.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Alice Schlein visited the class and wowed everyone with her handwoven jacquards and books</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our third visitors were my good friend and co-author of <i>The Woven Pixel</i>, <a href="http://weaverly.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Alice Schlein</a>, and her wonderful immensely curious photographer husband, <a href="https://cameralucidity.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bruce Schlein</a>. Time with them is never enough, but I will take what is given. Alice can bring me to tears with what she knows about weaving, and how she shares it with others. She is smart, funny, and kind. Alice and Bruce are really engaged in life and everything it offers. Everyone was lucky to meet them and see the cloth and books that Alice brought with her. Not just the books she has written, but the books she is handmaking and covering with her own cloth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't get pictures of the afternoon visit we had by <a href="http://www.oaksgallery.net/Susan_Morgan_Leveille.html" target="_blank">Susan Morgan Leveille</a> but it was quite a treat. Susan is the great niece of Miss Lucy Morgan, and everyone who goes to Penland knows about Miss Lucy. Susan had some clothing with her that Miss Lucy had woven and worn. Now that was a true piece of Penland history. One student, Donna Anthony, was the one student who contacted me ahead of time saying she had taken two classes before but felt she could benefit from the class--and I encouraged her to sign up and that I would work with her at her level, as long as she understood that rank beginners needed more help the first days than others. Donna came into the studio one afternoon saying she had just bumped into her first teacher--who turned out to be Susan!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our class spent one evening before dinner with <a href="http://craftcouncil.org/post/edwina-bringles-50-years-textiles" target="_blank">Edwina Bringle</a> hearing stories about the early 60s at Penland and the transition from Miss Lucy's times to today. I loved sitting there looking at my students and thinking that we were the current moment in this long history. Is anything more perfect than sitting on the deep porch of Craft House drinking wine and listening to old Penland stories?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also were invited to a short visit to the archives by Penland's archivist, Carey Hedlund. Among the things that Carey showed us were some samples woven by Miss Lucy Morgan as well as an old shuttle, that showed the patina of use and love, that might have been used by Miss Lucy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Penland is located in an area that used to be full of textile mills. Lucky for us <a href="http://www.valdeseweavers.com/" target="_blank">Valdese Weavers</a> is still going strong and Janie knew someone who works there. I had toured the facilities many years ago with another Penland class when I was still teaching full-time and had former students who worked there. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turns out I still have a former student who is a designer there. It is incredibly gratifying to walk into a professional office full of cloth that is in production and designed by someone who studied with you. And I love touring textile mills. Big electronic looms are awesome. I couldn't take pictures of fabrics in production but I think the details of looms above show you some of the beauty of a mill. I know the students as excited about the visit as I was. Cloth is so ubiquitous and most people don't think about the ingenuity that has gone into the technology of producing it today. Also, having woven on looms themselves for a week, the students knew the foreign language being thrown at them--warp and weft and pick and fill and twill and selvedge and harness and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finished Work:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Some of the finished work--Kat Nicholas with her clasped weft scarf; Daniel Garver holding his exquisite twill fabric; Janie Woodbridge offering Bhakti the scarf she wove (lucky me!!); Rachel Qualliotine modeling one of her woven necklaces; Joshua Kovarik tired by triumphant after a night of weaving his double corduroy rug; Jackie Sullivan modeling the poncho she team wove with Monica Brown and Dan Garver; Morgan Elkins radiently wearing her new scarf; Donna Anthony showing me her monk's belt fabric that I wish I could say I wove; Kat Nicholas hidden by her twill block fabric; Nikki Curry beaming as brighly as her overshot cloth.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Monica Brown, Daniel Garver and Jackie Sullivan teamed together to design, weave and sew this poncho, that they will continue to share. Penland really makes connections.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cleaning up the studio on July 17th before putting up finished work at Northlight</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has taken me weeks to cull through the hundreds of images I took at Penland and try to eliminate them down for this post. Even so, it is long. How do you distill a time warp into a blog post? It was two weeks where time was so compressed that at the end of the two weeks you felt like you were saying goodby to people you had known your whole life. It felt like two weeks that really changed lives. I know it brought a very needed reinvestment of energy into my life. I often talk about being exiled in Vermont--but I left feeling appreciated and relevant. I left with renewed respect for weaving and its importance in people's lives. I left with hope for the future. I left very much feeling present. To paraphrase something I heard someone say the other day, it did wonders for my zen. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ceramics by Robin Ziek made in Kip O'Krongly's class</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Holbrook Newman who taught yoga (thank you Holbrook for creating a space of trust) pointing out the print work she did this session; Lisa Grey, one of my close friends, who assisted Jason Pollen, another great friend, in upstairs textiles (thank you Lisa for quiet walks home to our rooms and sitting quietly in the dark talking); Audrey Schroeder, intern in textiles this summer who was the honorary participant in the studio</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">No one wanted to say goodby, and setting up the work at Northlight meant goodby for some of us (I left right after lunch, some people left from the show). But watching these students work together hanging each others work, making sure everyone was shown properly, really made me happy. I was grateful for all the wonderful people I met during these two weeks--people not shown in these images. I was grateful for time spent with my sister, Robin, who took Kip O'Krongly's ceramic class this session. I was grateful for the trust I found in Holbrook Newman's yoga class and for my student Rachel Qualliotine who also teaches yoga and who kept at me until I finally attended a yoga session (and went from paranoia to trust). I was grateful for each of the 11 students who took my workshop. And I was grateful for Janie Woodbridge who took my class at <a href="http://www.belindarose.co.uk/" target="_blank">Belinda Rose</a>'s place in Scotland last summer and was the most supportive assistant anyone could have asked for. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Me (Bhakti Ziek) and Janie Woodbridge proudly showing all the work the weavers accomplished this session</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I am filled with good memories and very optimistic about the future of weaving and the young people who will carry it into the future. When I think of Penland, this is the image that comes to me--with gratitude:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Left to Right, Standing then Kneeling: Haley Toelle, Donna Anthony, Bhakti Ziek, Joshua Kovarik, Morgan Elkins, Jackie Sullivan, Nikki Curry, Lew Greenwald, Dan Garver, Rachel Qualliotine, Monica Brown, Kat Nicholas, Janie Woodbridge<br /></span></td></tr>
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Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-6389524699158754122015-07-01T22:04:00.000-04:002015-07-01T22:04:31.239-04:00July Already!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's July already and I never got to post in June. So much for my intentions to be a regular blogger. But here I am today, preparing my <a href="http://www.mirrixlooms.com/" target="_blank">Mirrix loom</a> so I can take it to <a href="http://www.penland.org/" target="_blank">Penland</a> with me. I leave on Sunday and have a full class of beginning weavers. Some people have expressed "sympathy" to me about teaching beginners but it is my choice. I could have proposed anything for my workshop but I want to work with new weavers. I hope to entice them to begin a journey that goes on for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I plan to start my students with 8/2 tencel and weave scarves (or table runners or just plain cloth). If someone wants to work with other yarn, that is fine--I see my role as explaining and demystifying the process of weaving on a floor loom. I wove the scarves above because I didn't know whether I prefered 24 epi or 30 epi for this yarn. Guess what--after washing and ironing I still don't know. At least the students will have physical examples to touch to help them make their choices.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Detail on top shows the two sides of scarf woven as a 1/3 twill (so reverse is a 3/1 twill)--there are changes of structure woven in stripes but always 1/3 tie-up; bottom shows the other scarf, woven as a 2/2 twill, with the weft color sequence forming a plaid (both sides of this scarf are the same); scarves woven by Bhakti Ziek, June 2015</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is an image of the second deflected double weave scarf I made using alpaca from <a href="http://www.wildhairalpacas.com/" target="_blank">Wild Hair Alpacas</a> and silk from <a href="http://www.yarnbarn-ks.com/Cascade-from-Henrys-Attic/productinfo/WY-HA-CASC-01/" target="_blank">Henry's Attic</a>. I was really pleased with the results and look forward to more exploration of this structure with those yarns. I sent this scarf and the other alpaca scarves out to Colorado to the store at Wild Hair Alpacas. They are having several open houses this summer and fall, so check their website for more information.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Third tapestry sampler woven by Bhakti Ziek for the online course taught by Rebecca Mezoff</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am continuing with <a href="http://www.rebeccamezoff.com/online-learning/" target="_blank">Rebecca Mezoff's tapestry class</a> online. This is my third sampler, which concludes the end of part two. There is another part to go--which makes me happy. I still have to finish the three studies--sew in the ends, that kind of thing. The instructions are in part three, along with learning to work with cartoons and weave shapes. I am going to do another study though of what we covered in parts one and two before proceeding with the rest. That's what I am doing in the first image--preparing the warp for another study that will probably be blocks and stripes, hatching and interlocks, demi-duites and floating bars. Rebecca has a video showing work by many artists using these processes and I am in awe of their skillfulness and creativity. Most of them are quite intricate narratives, which of course is a great tapestry tradition, but I am feeling very minimal these days and I think squares and color are going to be enough for me for now.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Demi-duites in top form are very neat on the face of the tapestry, but a mess on the back; detail of tapestry weaving by Bhakti Ziek, woven as a study in the online course taught by Rebecca Mezoff</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mark Goodwin preparing walls of Chandler Gallery, to hang Sisyphus, a seven panel weaving by Bhakti Ziek</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is another opportunity to see my seven panel weaving <i>Sisyphus</i>! The current show at <a href="http://chandlergallery.weebly.com/main-gallery.html" target="_blank">Chandler Gallery</a> in Randolph, curated by Rebbie Carleton, is called Creative Cosmos. It is up through September 7th. There will be a reception for the artists on August 8 from 6-8:30 pm and earlier that day, at 4:30 pm, the artists will talk about their work. My wonderful husband, <a href="http://markagoodwin.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Mark Goodwin</a>, once again helped me hang my work. Okay--he did all the work and I watched.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three panels from the seven panel weaving, <i>Sisyphus</i>, by Bhakti Ziek, 2015. Each panel is 28"w x 88.5"h, silk, cotton, metallic yarns, handwoven satin damask, hand woven on TC1 looms<br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will get home from Penland the night before <a href="http://markagoodwin.com/" target="_blank">Mark</a> has an opening of new work at <a href="http://www.bigtowngallery.com/" target="_blank">BigTown Gallery</a> on July 18th. Perfect timing. His work and paintings by James McGarrell will be up from July 15-September 6, 2015. Meanwhile if you haven't seen the Viva Cuba! exhibit that is showing there now, it is not to be missed. </span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-27271170415838225362015-05-29T18:40:00.001-04:002015-05-29T18:42:53.739-04:00Branching Out to Chaos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am very linear, which of course is a good attribute for a weaver. I like being involved in a big project, which gives me focus and a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Long ago, when I owned and ran a restaurant in Panajachel, Guatemala, I understood that I liked knowing everyone and being friendly, but also that the responsibilities of the restaurant kept me too busy to do anything that wasn't involved with running the restaurant, and it kept me out of trouble. I suppose this is another way of saying boundaries can be helpful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The keeping out of trouble refers to my own mind and my inclination to activities such as computer games and reading. Reading is okay, but that other thing..... Anyway, I don't have any big projects on my calendar right now and it is a perfect time to explore. Which if you have read my recent blog posts you know I am doing: card weaving, taqueté, tapestry, reading, and yes, that other unmentionable activity. So this story begins with my trip to Conway, MA to purchase a small Mirrix loom from <a href="http://plainweave.net/" target="_blank">Elisabeth (Lisa) Hill</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I walked into an old barn, with an amazing studio, and met the most wonderful enthusiastic woman who brought me across to her house filled with more looms and piles of incredible alive textiles. I wanted to touch everything, and if I had realized where I was going, I would have planned my day to have time with her. But I didn't, and had to rush away, loom in hand, determined to return as soon as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the things I had to do was weave some scarves for <a href="http://www.wildhairalpacas.com/" target="_blank">Wild Hair Alpacas</a> from yarn spun from the fleece of their animals. (Full disclosure: my brother and sister-in-law own Wild Hair Alpacas and have named most of their animals for someone in the family, so I never know if they are taking about a cousin or an alpaca when they say things like "Nancy isn't feeling well these days".) You would think that 45 years of weaving would make an assignment like this simple--but keeping track of my hours is almost the antithesis of making art. Also, the yarn I had on hand was limited, of different weights, and I knew probably not what they were having spun up for my use in the future. Still, it was a beginning and I do know that experience is my best teacher. So I wove five scarves, washed them, twisted the fringe and ironed them and decided to bring them to Lisa for some input.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laurie Autio, Ute Bargmann and Lisa Hill--all three are master weavers with certificates from The Hill Institute</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lisa made arrangements for a power lunch with her, Laurie Autio, Ute Bargmann, and me. The three of them are Master Weavers with certificates from the <a href="http://www.hillinstitute.com/classes_details.cfm?id=26" target="_blank">Hill Institute</a>. This is no small feat, and I was thrilled to be there with them. Ute's expertise includes card weaving and she brought a display of bands she had woven in conjunction with some historical research to be published. (You can purchase another <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anna-Neupers-Modelbuch-Sixteenth-Century-Patterns/dp/0971896011/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432930934&sr=1-1" target="_blank">book</a> she contributed to on Amazon.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laurie Autio is a respected teacher of weaving who offers a study program for intermediate to master level weavers called Explorations in Advanced Weaving. This course goes on for years, and her students are devoted to her because of her kindness, clarity, and breadth of knowledge. She is about to start a new group this fall, so if interested (and you should be) contact her at <lkautio@comcast.net>. She also brought cloth with her and again time did not permit us to see everything--so there must be another luncheon soon. Laurie is going to be the newest <a href="http://www.digitalweaving.no/en/thread-controller-tc-2" target="_blank">TC-2</a> owner (maybe the loom has arrived by today) and I can't wait to see what she does with that loom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though we were at Lisa's house, we didn't have time to go to her studio and talk about what she is doing. Instead she modeled my scarves and an alpaca shawl that I made. They gave me good feedback, positive and helpful, and I felt encouraged. (Here is a plug for my work--it will only be available through Wild Hair Alpacas--which has an online <a href="http://www.wildhairalpacas.com/store/" target="_blank">store</a> that includes felted alpaca products and children's books starring alpacas.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pilgrimage to Vävstuga Weaving School, next to the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, MA and then to their offsite location where the drawloom class was in session</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lisa teaches at <a href="http://www.vavstuga.com/classes/" target="_blank">Vävstuga Weaving School</a> in Shelburne Falls, MA. Since moving to Vermont I have meant to go there, even had it planned a couple of times but it never materialized. Becky Ashenden owns and runs the school (she's pictured in the two bottom pictures above) and she also has a fantastic store that will make you pull out your credit card (I know what I am talking about). So when Lisa made arrangements to take me there after lunch, and the drawloom class was in session that day, it felt like a pilgrimage. Which is sort of funny to me because I have actually gone to Shelburne Falls a couple of times to do ten day silent retreats at the <a href="http://www.dhara.dhamma.org/" target="_blank">Vipassana Meditation Center</a>, Dhamma Dhara (that should have a line above the last a but I can't seem to make it happen here). If you can't make it to one of her classes there, she has many <a href="http://plainweave.net/events/" target="_blank">workshops scheduled</a> around the country and maybe you can meet her there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As soon as I got home from that inspiring day, I set up my macomber with my first deflected double cloth. I am indebted to both Lisa Hill and Madelyn van der Hoogt for sharing information with me on this wonderful type of cloth. Madelyn, founder of <a href="http://www.weaversschool.com/" target="_blank">The Weavers' School</a>, editor of Handwoven, and author of many books, including <i><a href="http://www.weaversschool.com/books.htm" target="_blank">The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers</a></i>, which should be on every weaver's shelf, has been a hero of mine for years. I can pretend to be a beginner, and it wasn't hard while doing this scarf (I had no idea whether I was suppose to beat my weft loosely or hard), but the fact that I can send an email out to friends all over the country when i get in difficulty is a sign that I have been doing this for a long time. I will just say that all my scarves feel heavenly, and they probably will improve as I keep going, but the graphic quality of this scarf makes it really nice to wear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to keep good records of what I am doing but I barely had enough warp to do one scarf; yet somehow I did manage to get a small sample off the warp. I beat the weft much harder on the sampler and when I washed it the cloth came together in a way that I liked. Next scarf I should have enough warp to make it large enough to allow for shrinkage and a tighter beat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's another branch to the confusion of my life. I wanted to follow up the card weaving study with an inkle loom band. I pulled out my old Gilmore inkle loom--can you see the faded ink label on the loom near the shuttle? I love that loom, maybe because it was the first one I purchased. It is so simple to use; a really smart tool. I looked online to try and find images of how to warp it because after all these years of disuse, I wasn't sure. I sort of knew but wasn't positive. I am surprised that I didn't find a good picture with the flap, which is for tensioning, and all the pegs. Finally I just bit the bullet and warped the loom, following draft one in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Weavers-Inkle-Pattern-Directory/dp/1596686472" target="_blank">Anne Dixon's book</a>, <i>The Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory: 400 Warp-Faced Weaves</i>. Guess who did the forward--Madelyn van der Hoogt! I started at one because I was thinking it would be nice to do all 400 bands. That was before I started. Now I think I will finish this and put the loom away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not that I don't think the process is perfectly wonderful. In fact, I am totally inspired by what <a href="http://weaversew.com/wordblog/" target="_blank">Daryl Lancaster</a> does with her inkle loom. She uses the bands for her incredible handwoven garments--it makes sense for her to make the cloth and the bands. And she has written a <a href="http://www.weaversew.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=14" target="_blank">book</a> on using the inkle loom that I plan to order (and when I was in doubt an email to her got an immediate response with a diagram of the old Gilmore loom like I have). But I feel fractured by all this exploring and long to return to my TC1 and the taqueté and samitum study that I have neglected (and to continue with the tapestry lessons). There are so many avenues one can go down as a weaver, but my birthday is next week, and I better start pruning myself so I am not just rambling around as I near the end of my 60s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, but I didn't mention the study of dimity that Ute Bargmann and Lisa Hill and others undertook, did I? It was Lisa's notebook of small swatches like the ones in the photo above that got me determined to return to her barn soon. These are three shaft weaves--or at least based on three shafts. Plain weave. Now three shafts and plain weave do not go together--so I am confused. Maybe it isn't three shafts? I really don't know. But I have to find out. So pruning some branches, but adding others. Weaving might be linear but it also is a mysterious web.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I said I would do a new post in a week, and that was three weeks ago, but really, three weeks is much better than a year--and I do say I am an "erratic blogger" right up there under my name. So here is my tale of how I came to my current study of tapestry weaving--a meandering story of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taqueté is a weft-faced structure using two warp systems and multiple wefts, and it is one of the structures I taught last summer at <a href="http://www.belindarose.co.uk/" target="_blank">Belinda Rose</a>'s studio in Scotland using her <a href="http://www.digitalweaving.no/en/" target="_blank">Thread Controller loom</a>. The basic structure of taqueté is always plain weave, like tapestry, but the wefts travel from edge to edge, unlike the discontinuous wefts of a tapestry. The wefts should completely cover the warp, and you can see in my study above, that my warp is definitely showing--especially at the bottom. So I began to think I could learn something from tapestry and tapestry weavers and contacted a few friends who are experts in tapestry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seemed like everyone kept pointing me to <a href="http://www.rebeccamezoff.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Mezoff</a> and her online tapestry courses. I wasn't really thinking to take a class, and as a former teacher of weaving (well, I still do teach sometimes but not full-time) I have taught tapestry--but Rebecca has posted some wonderful free videos on the internet and I began to watch everything that was available and realized I could learn alot from her. So I signed up for her Three-in-One Course. You can read all about her different courses and options <a href="http://www.rebeccamezoff.com/online-learning/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What works for me, besides the fact that she has made professional videos that are in focus, clear to follow, and funny (so you enjoy watching the videos), is that these are self-directed courses. There is no meet-up time when all the students and Rebecca are online together--you work at your own speed, whenever you want, and you can ask as many questions as you want. Rebecca tries to answer everyone within 24 hours, but my experience is that she responds much quicker than that. I can watch her videos over and over--and I do. In fact, I watch so often that Mark and I think we have a roommate. You also can see what the other students have done in any section--after you post what you have done. That is a really nice feature because you get a sense of sharing without feeling competitive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, here is the truth--I wanted a new loom. I saw people using the <a href="http://www.mirrixlooms.com/store/16-big-sister-loom-with-shedding-device/" target="_blank">Mirrix loom</a> in one of the workshops when I taught at the <a href="http://northwestweavers.org/" target="_blank">ANWG Conference</a> in Bellingham, WA in 2013. I loved what everyone was doing, and I loved the looms. So for two years I have been wanting one of those looms, and I got it in my head that if I got one, I could work downstairs at the kitchen table by the woodstove at night, instead of going to bed and reading. And Rebecca demonstrates most of the steps so far on a mirrix loom--and that tap tap sound of her beating the weft into place is very enticing. You can hear that tap tap sound at about minute 2:30 of her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUpZCaR3oQ" target="_blank">splicing video</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I have this perfectly wonderful 24" 8-shaft <a href="http://www.macomberloom.com/" target="_blank">Macomber loom</a> in my studio and I haven't used it for a long time, and I knew it was a great loom for tapestry--so I couldn't legitimize buying a loom, especially if I didn't know if I was going to be serious about tapestry or not. So I started <a href="http://www.rebeccamezoff.com/online-learning" target="_blank">Rebecca's class</a> and put seine twine cotton (I didn't know about this wonderful yarn before watching her videos) on my macomber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I was totally unprepared for was my reaction to doing tapestry. I was completely mesmerized and engaged and loved it. My friend Sandra Brownlee explained it perfectly: she said "my fingers were thirsty." (You can experience Sandra's wisdom in The Tactile Notebook workshop she is teaching at <a href="http://longridgefarm.com/events/" target="_blank">Longridge Farm</a> this summer.) I am going to write more about this in a future blog because I think it is an interesting topic, about the differences I perceive between the jacquard work I have been doing and the hand manipulation of tapestry--but it is a big topic and I think I should leave it for a future discussion. Let's just leave it that my hands, which have done so much brocade in the past, and yes, I have done tapestry before, felt at home with the butterflies and moving of weft threads that is part of tapestry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, the same week that I set up the macomber for tapestry, my brother and sister-in-law who own <a href="http://www.wildhairalpacas.com/" target="_blank">Wild Hair Alpacas</a> in Colorado Springs called to see if I could weave some alpaca scarves for them (that too will be another post). Suddenly my macomber loom was in high demand. And that is when my friend, <a href="http://tapestry13.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tommye Scanlin</a> offered to lend me her Mirrix loom--so I could test the loom in person to see if I wanted one and also free up my macomber for the scarves. The mirrix is pictured above, and yes, I do want one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had to finish the warp on the macomber before I could start the scarves, and you can see my work from Part II of Rebecca's course. We are weaving from the back and in Part III I will learn how to deal with all those tails hanging down, and then the back will be almost as clean as the front, and I will be sure to post it for you to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am constantly amazed at how the smallest detail can change the effect of the weaving. I pulled out my Peter Collingwood <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Techniques-Weaving-Peter-Collingwood/dp/0823052001" target="_blank">The Techniques of Rug Weaving</a> (the weaving books are all coming off the shelves these days and piling up by my bed for night time reading) and just couldn't understand how the difference between one weft going over the other versus the other going over the first could make a difference, but when I tested it at the loom I saw that he was completely right. That is another thing--tapestry is an ancient process and one that has been used by cultures all over the world--so there never is one way to do anything, and what is right for one group is wrong for another. I really like how even-handed Rebecca is about all the variations. She is quick to point out what others do, and often sends us to videos by other artists, and she is very clear about why she does something, and of course she is teaching us her way, but she always leaves it open for the student to decide what works best for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't have enough warp on my loom to finish all the exercises in Part II, so I will either finish them on Tommye's mirrix or--isn't it funny how things happen-- I met some friends at <a href="http://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2015/02/06/gathering-threads-contemporary-fiber-art/" target="_blank">Brattleboro Art Museum</a> last week so they could see my weaving Sisyphus (I will do a blog post soon about this piece), which is up until Sunday, May 3rd in their current exhibition. Of course I went on and on about studying tapestry, and one of my friends who is moving her studio soon offered to give me her tapestry loom, which she isn't using.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So yesterday Mark and I drove over to her place and got the loom. Although she had sent me a picture, I was rather surprised in person to see it is really a sturdy big loom. Luckily we had the topper off the truck, and it just fit perfectly. This loom makes me think I had better get serious. I actually don't have any idea of what I want to do in tapestry. Right now I just love the process of learning and understanding. At the moment I have the sense that despite all my years as a weaver, I know nothing, and there is so much to learn that I am never going to get "there." Of course, I also know there is no "there" and that one of my pleasures right now is that I do know something about weaving, and can grasp the nuances of the differences I am being taught--and this was not something I could have understood when I did tapestry in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have more to say--and obviously I have many more blog posts that I have to do, since I have promised them to you in this post--but I think I will end by saying, I could finish up Part II and do Part III on my Nilus Leclerc Tissart loom OR I could do it on my own mirrix--since I am buying one from another weaver next Monday. This story has a happy ending.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And thank you Rebecca Mezoff for being such a wonderful teacher and artist and a generous soul. Rebecca also blogs--so go <a href="http://rebeccamezoff.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to see more. The color work she is doing for a new class is totally inspiring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is almost one year since I have written in this blog. A busy year, a good year--and now I hope to be more consistent and catch you up and stay with it. Is anyone out there reading anymore?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left to right: inkle band by Bhakti Ziek circa 1969; tablet band by Bhakti Ziek, 2015; Burmese tablet band; double weave band by Bhakti Ziek circa 1992; Mexican pick-up band; Mexican pick-up band; Guatemalan double woven brocaded belt from Nebaj, made before 1960.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have bands on my mind. The image above is just a small selection of the many bands in my collection. I never have used them. Well, that isn't exactly true. The inkle woven band on the left in the photo above is the first band I ever wove, and I did use it as a strap on a bag for many years, then removed it and put it with all the others--usually tucked away in boxes but sometimes hanging to be admired, or wrapped in circles, like the Burmese prayer bands above that reside in a cabinet with glass--so they are always on view. I find these strips of cloth very appealing--just as they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that doesn't explain why I am thinking about bands, and making them. In January, on a wonderful trip to California, I presented a talk to the <a href="http://www.santacruzhandweavers.org/" target="_blank">Santa Cruz Weavers Guild</a> and met Don Betterley and Gudrun Polak. Gudrun is a well-known tablet weaver whose website, <a href="http://www.theloomybin.com/doc/cwloom/betterloom.html" target="_blank">theloomybin</a>, has wonderful information on this type of weaving (card weaving is what most Americans say, and tablet weaving is more common in the rest of the world, but they refer to the same process--I think I will use tablet weaving here) including a link to Don's new card weaving loom. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the ingredients used for making the band in this photo--Don Betterley's loom with the beautiful turquoise inlay on the front beam, cards, clamps, weft, a beater, weights, and the all important instructions--these are by Karen Henderson</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was intrigued (I love new tools for weaving) and got Don's loom. You can get his link from Gudrun's website or write directly: <betloom(at--use @ no spaces)gmail.com>. Don's loom allows for easy spacing of the warp at the back, and clamps to tables.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Books on tablet weaving, I used Linda Hendrickson's instructions for my new band</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pulled out all my books on tablet weaving, and ordered Peter Collingwood's <i>The Techniques of Tablet Weaving</i>, which had been out of print the last time I tried to buy it. The only disappointment when it arrived was that this edition is a black and white print from 2002, and it is very difficult to read the images without the color--but the information is all there, and I am busy reading it at night. The book I used to make my band was <a href="http://www.lindahendrickson.com/" target="_blank">Linda Hendrickson's</a> wonderful little pamphlet <i>Tablet Weaving for Parents and Children</i>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My original set up with warp tied around front beam the way I would do on a floor loom (note Don Betterley's nice inlay design); the warp is weighted in six sections with knitting machine weights, and the warp is stretched out across the back beam (which proved to be too wide)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I set up the loom and started weaving. I am going to teach a beginning weaving summer class at <a href="http://penland.org/textiles/index.html" target="_blank">Penland School of Crafts</a> (July 5 through 17, 2015; it is full but you can contact the school to get on the waiting list because people do change their plans) and I realized that doing this tablet weaving project was perfect preparation for that class. My own awkwardness and confusion about what was going on (tablet weaving is twining, not weaving, so threads twist around each other and it took quite a long time before I could see the elements and understand what they are doing....not that I totally understand yet) is a reminder of how my summer students will feel confronted by the loom and the many steps involved with weaving before you actually throw the shuttle.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many bands woven by Alice Schlein</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Selection of bands woven by Belinda Rose</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am lucky because I have many expert weavers as friends. Both <a href="http://weaverly.typepad.com/weaverly/tablet-weaving/" target="_blank">Alice Schlein</a> and <a href="http://www.belindarose.co.uk/coursesevents/tablet-weaving-workshops/" target="_blank">Belinda Rose</a> have recently taught classes on tablet weaving, and if you contact them I am sure they will be doing more in the future. Click on their names for links to their websites. I immediately started a three-way email conversation and barraged them with questions. They patiently and carefully immediately sent me responses. Belinda said she might even do a video--so watch her website to see if she posts it (and if she does, I will mention it on this blog too--another reason to keep posting regularly).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I realized I had spread my warp out too far on the back beam and when I adjusted it, I was able to keep the threads tight and covering the weft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also went to the hardware store and bought new clamps for the front--smaller ones and these have a square holding clamp that seem to hold the band more evenly. Anyway, like I said, I love to purchase new weaving tools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took me much longer to weave than I expected, and of course the results are very wobbly and uneven--a true beginning experiment. I don't think I am going to add anything to the world of tablet weaving any time soon, but I am reading the Collingwood book and will try again soon. I realized that despite the hundreds of cones of yarns I have on my shelves, almost everything I have is much too thin for a novice tablet weaver like me to use. Luckily I have a trip to <a href="http://www.yarn.com/webs-weaving-spinning/" target="_blank">Webs</a> planned for April 14 because I am giving a talk to the <a href="http://www.pioneervalleyweavers.org/" target="_blank">Pioneer Valley Weavers' Guild</a> which meets at Webs. (That talk is free and open to the public if you want to attend.) So I will look for some heavier smooth yarn in colors that are more harmonious than the red and blue I used above.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Details of woven bands: two Mexican pickup weaves on left; Guatemalan brocaded band in center; inkle woven band on right by Bhakti Ziek, circa 1969.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, this card weaving study made me remember how much I loved weaving inkle bands when I first started to weave. Maybe my Penland beginners won't be able to afford a floor loom but they certainly can afford cards and perhaps an inkle loom (or make one themselves). So I pulled out my sweet Gilmore inkle loom, and will look for appropriate yarn at Webs--probably the same yarn for both my next tablet project as well as the inkle loom. If I practice enough perhaps someday I can make bands as beautiful as the Burmese prayer bands below.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various images of three Burmese tablet woven prayer bands, and one Bhakti Ziek feeble band.</td></tr>
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Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-10728515862647309572014-04-10T20:11:00.000-04:002014-04-10T20:11:15.961-04:00Stardust<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stardust by Bhakti Ziek, a permanent installation at Whitman College, Princeton University (photo by Ed Wendell)</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been working on Stardust (a permanent installation at Whitman College, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ) since May 2013. It was installed March 19-20, 2014. There are six panels, each 16 feet high x 27.25 inches wide. They are handwoven weft-backed jacquards made out of silk, tencel, and metallic yarns.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was an incredible year. One that called on me to use all the knowledge I have acquired over the years related to weaving and art, and still it pushed me to new territory and insights. I will write more about it soon (relatively soon) but for now you can see more images (photos by Ed Wendell) on my facebook page if you go to this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.762234243795270.1073741828.100000261030906&type=1&l=b616024ff1" target="_blank">link</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Princeton University commissioned a video on the making of Stardust. It was produced and edited by Michael Sacca. Click <a href="http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/learn/explore/museum-videos" target="_blank">here</a> to see.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-52738617438743475092012-11-24T14:22:00.000-05:002012-11-24T14:22:49.719-05:00Familiarity
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used to say that New York City is the only place where I
know north, south, east and west. Just put me down somewhere in Manhattan and I
can tell you where I am. I was born in Manhattan but raised on Long Island. My
siblings and I knew that we didn’t belong there, and as we listened to our
parents moan about life in that small town (whose edges blended seamlessly with
all the other small towns on the south shore), we would encourage them to move
back to the city. Maybe it was lack of courage, or maybe they really meant it
when they said they had moved there for us—but it certainly didn’t make any
sense since the schools were better in the city, the ease of attending cultural
events couldn’t be argued, and the ability to have dim sum every day, or real
Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern, or any ethnic food was an important point. I
guess riding your bicycle in the street was a plus for Long Island, but by the
time I reached junior high I was taking two buses, and a subway almost every
weekend to the city to attend a Broadway play with another friend whose parents
had excelled her on Long Island.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guggenheim Museum, NYC</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were raised to understand that school meant kindergarten
through college, and then we could move back to Manhattan. That is almost
exactly what I did—with a few months in Europe before moving to the City. Until
I was 42, I moved in and out of the city—thriving and excited until I would
reach the point where I was reading the New York Times on a Sunday, mentally
attending all the week’s activities, and then doing nothing. The four walls of
my apartment would become my boundaries, and I would know it was time to move.
The last time I left the city (this time from Brooklyn, not Manhattan) I went
to graduate school. In a way it marked a change in my life because it opened up
the possibilities of jobs with responsibility and creative outlets. It helped
that my first full-time job was only two hours from New York City. That first
year or two we drove there almost every weekend. I distinctly remember the
evening we were stopped in a traffic jam trying to enter one of the bridges,
and pulled over, singled out because our car had out of state plates. That $200
fine really hurt, and our trips to the city dropped off as we began to
investigate Philadelphia.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33 Years!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There have been lots of moves in my 33 years with Mark
(anniversary next week), and now we are trying to figure out the next one. Just
last week a friend looked at me with an extremely severe, stern expression on
her face and reminded me that I have a beautiful house with lots of room
(meaning studio space). Yes, I know she is right. But I can’t help thinking
that we are pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, me and Mark, locked together and trying
to find the surrounding puzzle where we fit. You know how you have a puzzle piece
that looks like it should fit in a space, and you move it around in every
possible position trying to get it in, and you sort of can even squeeze it in,
but you know it isn’t right. When the piece fits, it eases into place with an
audible sigh of relief. We are looking for that ease.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mark Goodwin's studio in Vermont</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the last few years, now that we are back on the East
Coast, we have had the chance to return to New York and Philadelphia, and a few
other places we have called home, and just this week I returned from a fabulous
two weeks in New Mexico, the last place we called home. What I have learned is
that my compass has expanded. New York, Santa Fe, Philadelphia—each of these
places is familiar. Walking their streets is like an embrace by someone you
love. There is a constant nodding of recognition, an internal ahhhhh, the yes
of knowing where you are and what is around the corner. Of course there are
changes—and despite the economic woes of these times—those changes feel vital
and good. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love my Friends!</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Returning to these familiar places has also shown me what a
people person I am. I love my friends. I love sitting with them (in that
Chinese buffet where the food is not really very good but where we feel
comfortable to sit for hours and talk; or in their kitchen which is a new place
for me but still feels known because of all their possessions moved from the
old house to the new) and catching up on their children, or siblings, or mutual
friends, or themselves. Names of people I have never thought of since the last
time I sat with them bubble up in my consciousness and I can ask how they are,
what they are doing, where they are. It isn’t just gossip, or chatter, it is
taking a reckoning of position, it is settling into home. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe once we leave this place, we will return and find the
same sense of the familiar. Five years have brought many shifts in my feelings.
This spring/summer/fall were so beautiful that I couldn’t help seeing and
acknowledging how gorgeous the world is in this area. But the cold has started,
my arthritis is acting up, the days are too short. The litany of reasons to
move doesn’t evaporate, despite the almost equal list of reasons to stay. Another
place has become familiar but it still doesn’t feel like home. We have enough
energy to believe that we could be happier somewhere else, enough energy to
pack again and jump off the cliff. We just don’t know where we will land. I
came home from Santa Fe with the same reaction I had to Philadelphia-- we can
return. We just don’t know if we will return.</span></div>
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for some things. Groceries are top on my list. Did I write about this before?
How I came home late one evening from two years living in Guatemala and Mexico
and immediately went to the grocery store and walked up and down every aisle. I
just starred at all the boxes of cereal, all the types of cookies, all the
cheeses, and all the fruit and vegetables out of season for that area but
available to purchase anyway. These days I don’t go up and down every aisle, in
fact I never go past the boxed cereals or canned vegetables, but I still love
going to the supermarket and slowly going through my list. I try to limit
myself to a written list, but never manage to succeed. Besides the monthly
bills that must get paid (like the mortgage), the grocery stores get most of my
money. When times are rough, I ask Mark to do the shopping. He sticks to the
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buy textile related books. I have learned that if I see a book that looks good,
I had better get it, because it won’t be there next time I look. The bookstores
in Santa Fe always had something to tempt me. One memorable trip there, a
fantastic bookstore was going out of business, and we flew home with armfuls of
heavy art books. That was before the airlines started to charge for luggage.
The books stay with us, from house to house, as we crisscross the country. They
fill shelves in almost every room. Sometimes I don’t take one off the shelf for
months, but when I do, it is like visiting an old friend.</span></div>
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my list for a while. In fact, almost any book on ethnographic textiles will
catch my attention. These books are usually filled with lots of photos, and
admittedly, I have looked at the pictures more than I have read the texts. I
also like how-to books on weaving. No book has come close to Deborah Chandlers’
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beginning Weaving</i>, one of the first
books I owned, but that doesn’t stop me from buying all the ones that have come
out since hers, explaining how to wind a warp, or set up a loom, or weave
simple fabrics. There is this thing that comes over me when I find one of these
books—I think it is called greed. I just have to have it. It’s as if my life
will not be complete unless that book is put on my shelf. This hasn’t happened
in Vermont because I have never seen a book on weaving that I don’t already own
in any of the bookstores here.</span></div>
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Borders within a half hour of my house, and I would loose myself looking at all
their cookbooks. Now I find I am creating quite a long wish list on Amazon;
books on chocolate are piling up fast. I haven’t actually made any chocolates
yet—but I am reading about them—and lusting after more books on them. Reading
is definitely less fattening than making and eating, but I know that soon I am
going to start…and then my list of needs will increase to molds, and dipping
forks, and exotic ingredients. Cookbooks always seem to lead to purchases of
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dozens of books and put them back on the shelf without a flicker of
interest—but suddenly, when something catches my fancy, it seems like dozens of
others are suddenly enticing. I have some control, so I whittle things down to
one or two purchases, which then trigger a delayed action. Sooner or later I
will be back to get the others. I have rationalized some of it. A book on
weaving or cooking is something you return to again and again. It isn’t an item
you can get from inter-library loan because you never are quite finished with
it. Even if it isn’t a very good cookbook or textile book, still you might need
to use it again in the future; and if it is a good cookbook or weaving book
then you definitely will need to use it again. These are research items. Research
is such a respectable word that allows me to indulge in consumerism. Mark
thinks I should do some weavings based on cooking. Now that will really
legitimize my research.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mark Goodwin deciding what to install next after hanging <i>My Roof</i> by Bhakti Ziek on back wall at AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently in two concurrent exhibitions with <a href="http://www.cyndybarbone.com/list.php">Cyndy Barbone</a>, <a href="http://deborahfcarlson.blogspot.com/">Deborah Carlson</a> and <a href="http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_655885.html#axzz29UjdqiOa">Fuyuko Matsubara</a>. It surprises me that many people think we are showing the same work at both venues, since their dates overlap. So just to be clear, t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he makers are the same, the work is different. <a href="http://fullercraft.org/current-exhibitions/">The Fuller Craft Museum</a> in Brockton, Massachusetts is hosting <i>Grand Tales of the Loom: Four Master Weavers</i> until January 20, 2013; <a href="http://www.avagallery.org/content/exhibitions">AVA Art Gallery and Art Center</a> in Lebanon, New Hampshire is hosting <i>Affinity: Cyndy Barbone, Deborah Frazee Carlson, Fuyuko Matsubara and Bhakti Ziek</i> from October 19 - November 16, 2012. Since we hung the AVA show on Saturday, I can post pictures from that installation in this post.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a good time for weaving and textiles in general. Material explorations have exploded and when one sees work using fiber materials in art galleries now it is just identified as art, not ghettoized as fiber art. Most of these artists will roam from media to media, as their ideas or fashion dictate, and I have no problem with this. Nor do I mind that many of them are reworking ideas that have been done before--though I do think it is sad that their education has not informed them of the artists who trod the path before them. And I do mind it when I read statements implying that they are the first ones to combine concepts with fiber materials--a blatant sign of ignorance and self-aggrandizement. On the other hand, one has to excuse some of their ignorance because many artists using fiber materials that express ideas have been excluded from major museums, galleries, exhibitions and catalogs just because they were using those materials.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I think it is a great thing that the walls seem to be coming down (okay, I am skeptical--just like when I think that women have come a long way since my youth, I realize how few women are in the senate or house of representatives or hold positions of real power, and I wonder if they will repeal the woman's right to vote after they take away her right to choose). And I think this is the time for all of us who have been working for years to make an effort to show. So naturally I am thrilled that I can be part of two strong shows happening right now. Thrilled because when I stand in front of the work of Cyndy, or Deborah, or Fuyuko I am reminded of why I love weaving (as a medium, not as a process). Of the awe I feel when I realize that they have patiently manipulated vertical and horizontal threads to create these personal, passionate narrative works that evoke place and spirit and light. I can get lost in front of each work in these shows, whether small in scale or large, mesmerized by their beauty and substance. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I realize that what I am looking at is the product of years of study, research, exploration and learning. Each of us has been weaving for more than thirty years. We bring knowledge of dyes and dyeing, materials, and weave structure to the table. Double weave or triple weave isn't used because it is complicated but because it is the right method to produce the elements needed for the ideas being expressed. The slowness of a process is not an end goal, but if the only way to produce the idea is slow, then that is the path that must be followed. The fact that I am using a computerized loom ("new technologies") is something I have grown into, from hand manipulated supplementary weft to weft-backed satin structures; it facilitates the making of my current work but it doesn't do the work for me. And our work is informed by the awareness of great works of art in textile form, from Coptic textiles to Safavid to Bauhaus to contemporary fiber art. We know we are the current practitioners of a long lineage of artists who have found their voice at the loom; a practice that dates back to centuries dated B.C. We want people to understand through our work that the expression of woven threads is sublime and spiritual.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just like I have earned the right to use my Thread Controller loom, so all of us have earned the title of Master Weaver. We aren't the only ones. I can name a handful of amazing artists who are also master weavers and could easily be in the shows with us. So I hope this is just the beginning. That our work will travel, that there will be other shows with more people, other shows with more work to dazzle the eyes and entice the contemporary public to appreciate weaving as an art form.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to read more about my thoughts, there is an interview with me on the Fuller Craft tumblr site. I don't remember sending it off with all the typos and misspellings and words that should be other words (like wave for weave), but maybe I did. So if you can overlook those things, you might find it interesting to read. <a href="http://fullercraft.tumblr.com/post/33309290500/in-the-artist-corner-with-bhakti-ziek">Click here.</a></span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-67941845778756322432012-10-09T21:52:00.000-04:002012-10-09T21:52:05.444-04:00Fall Catch Up<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This fall is going so quickly that I am just going to play catch up and post briefly about several events. It has really been a beautiful fall, following a magical summer, so I have some hope for winter.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four "Master Weavers" standing in front of <a href="http://www.cyndybarbone.com/">Cyndy Barbone</a>'s work at top left with Cyndy second from left; standing in front of <a href="http://deborahfcarlson.blogspot.com/">Deborah Carlson</a>'s work with Deborah at right; standing in front of <a href="http://www.iup.edu/gallery.aspx?id=38981">Fuyuko Matsubara</a>'s work with Fuyuko second from right; and standing in front of <a href="http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_bhakti.html">Bhakti Ziek</a>'s work with Bhakti at left (photos by Cyndy Barbone).</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://fullercraft.org/event/grand-tales-of-the-loom-four-master-weavers/">Fuller Craft Museum</a> exhibition opened with a reception for the four "master weavers" (I love writing master weaver and really, we all have earned that title and deserve to be honored this way) on September 30th. It was a lively, well-attended event and the work of each of us shone on its own and worked in harmony with the other weavings. This exhibition will be on view through January 20th. On November 18th we will return and give artists' talks at 1 p.m. Here is a walk-through of the exhibition:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Top left is view from the entrance and top right is looking back to the entrance showing the title wall with work by Deborah Carlson and the side wall with work by Deborah Carlson; the middle left image shows the right wall with work by Bhakti Ziek; and the middle right image is the back wall with work by Fuyuko Matsubara; the bottom left image shows Cyndy Barbone's work which hangs on the left wall; and the bottom right image shows work by Deborah Carlson which is on the front wall.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Top left: Marianne McCann in front of her gypsy wagon and studio building; Top right: <a href="http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/news/about-your-host/">Holly Jennings</a> at left, Marianne, Barbara Moon Boertzel and Harry Boertzel; Middle Left: Marianne in front of one of her paintings which she made for her mother but I always think she is talking to me; Center Top Right: lunch on <a href="http://www.andreawasserman.com/">Andy Wasserman</a>'s porch--Andy is on the right at the back, I am across from her; Center Bottom Right: Vermont view; Bottom Left: spur of the moment salad--yum; Bottom Right: Andy's chickens. </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A visit by <a href="http://moonboertzel.com/home.html">Barbara Moon Boertzel</a> and Harry Boertzel brought together a group of us who all know them from different times related to <a href="http://www.cranbrookart.edu/index2.html">Cranbrook</a>. We had a delicious Portuguese dinner their first night here made by Holly, Marianne and myself because we are all focusing on <a href="http://leitesculinaria.com/">David Leite's The New Portuguese Table</a> for this round of the <a href="http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/">Dowdy Corners Cookbook Club</a>. No pictures but good memories. Next day we visited Marianne and Andy. We had plans to go to Montpelier for lunch and drink Vermont beer but never got there. Instead we had a marvelous spontaneous lunch that was truly a feast at Andy's house. The stop at Marianne's reminded me that despite her M.F.A. (all the women at the lunch table have their M.F.A.s from Cranbrook) she is truly an original folk artist. If the right person from the outsider art world fan group discovered her, she would have a long list of people wanting her work.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.doubleweaver.com/">Jennifer Moore</a> from Santa Fe, NM standing in front of a table of her samples that she brought to the <a href="http://vermontweaversguild.org/">Vermont Weavers Guild</a> workshop at the <a href="http://www.whiterivercraftcenter.org/sitepages/fiber%20arts.aspx">White River Craft Center</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just this morning we took Jennifer Moore to the airport. She came to Randolph to teach a workshop on doubleweave for the Vermont Weavers Guild. I know Jennifer from Santa Fe, so was happy to spend evenings together catching up. You can see from the photo above that Jennifer loves color and knows how to use doubleweave in so many ways to bring color and structure together. If you want to know more about her work check out her excellent book, <a href="http://www.doubleweaver.com/books.html">Doubleweave</a>. And if you are a member of a guild or group that brings in people to teach workshops, you should definitely put her high on your list. I walked through her class yesterday morning and was so impressed by the energy coming from each loom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In just a few weeks, the trees went from green to a myriad of color. To my eyes, the sumac is an especially vibrant red this year. I googled garlic and read that when the hills were a field of color, that was the time to plant the bulbs. So I did. Then heaped on leaves, which are falling fast. The color never lasts long enough, just like summer never stays quite as long as I want. But the beauty of each season seems particularly beautiful to me this year, and I am curious to see what Winter will bring. Meanwhile the fires in the wood stove, which have begun, seem more like a luxury than a necessity.</span><br />
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Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-24979899881687294262012-09-14T07:30:00.000-04:002012-09-14T07:36:33.346-04:00The Woven Pixel Goes to Handweaving.net<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Using Photoshop®</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, Alice Schlein and Bhakti Ziek, was first published in 2006 in
physical form. It was a 362-page black & white book with accompanying
compact disk; the CD included all of the major illustrations in color, and all
of the more than 1400 weaves described in the book immediately loadable as
Photoshop Pattern Presets. The book went through two print editions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all the physical copies were sold in 2010, the authors
offered the book and CD contents as a digital download, at a reduced price.
Sales of the digital download continued until the present time (2012).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the original TWP, the authors were working with Photoshop
CS2 and Elements 4. The Adobe software has gone through many versions since
then, and as I write this, Photoshop CS6 and Elements 10 are being sold. The
techniques described in the book remain mostly valid for these later versions,
although the user may have to look for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>different paths to achieve the same ends.</span></div>
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are sadly out of date.</span></div>
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today as it was in 2006: chapters on jacquard history, jacquard design, weave
structures used by jacquard and dobby weavers, and an extensive bibliography
are among the many gems to be found here.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The authors are not inclined to undertake a major revision
of TWP, but want to ensure that this important text remains available to the weaving
community. Toward that end, we have made an arrangement with Kris Bruland at
<a href="http://www.handweaving.net/">www.handweaving.net</a> to offer the digital version of the book, <i>minus the CD</i>,
as a free download. We are grateful to our many supporters who have invested in
the print and digital versions of the book and CD; without them we couldn't
have committed two years of our lives to the work. The original CD will not be
included in the free version of the book, but will be available as a digital
download at a cost of $100. Contact Bhakti Ziek (ziekgoodwin[at]gmail[dot]com)
or Alice Schlein (aschlein[at]att[dot]net) for more information.</span></div>
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to the world of jacquard design and that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>it will continue to inspire weavers and add to the spirit of sharing
which<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a hallmark of the
present-day weaving community.</span></div>
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Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-71832171998281024552012-09-05T13:48:00.004-04:002012-09-05T13:48:51.166-04:00Repetitive Motions<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has been the summer of repetitive motions. You might leap to the conclusion that I am talking about weaving--the rhythmic throwing of the shuttle from one selvedge to the other, feet alternately depressing pedals--but I am talking about scraping paint off the house, painting on primer, painting the first coat of color, then painting the second coat. Of action that seems like it is going nowhere but suddenly a new view pops into focus. The last week or so it seems the house really is looking different.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Mark's woodpile at the bottom, referencing the Green Mountains of Vermont. Stacking the wood started the summer work. After some attempts to avoid the house painting (successfully ignored for several years) we just bit the bullet and started scraping. What you can't see are all the clapboards Mark had to replace, or the rotting window frames he fixed, or that the steps are new and include a poured cement step. In other words, what he has done looks so good that you don't notice how much he has done. It's like that with art too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's like that with the garlic we have been peeling for the last month and will continue through October. I never realized that the bulbs I have purchased in the past, white and clean, had to be carefully peeled to remove the dirt in which they grew and the outer stained layers so that the customer could purchase the illusion of pristine bulbs. So, in exchange for our CSA share, we have put peeling garlic into our summer routine. Scrape, scrape, peel, peel. Read.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am reading <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/books/into-arcadia-with-simon-schama.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">Simon Schama</a>'s <i>Landscape and Memory</i>. Recommended by a friend, it made my eyes sparkle from the very first sentence. I am trying to understand the myth of place, and this author, who addresses it, along with fascinating, meandering discussions that others might ignore but that he, happily, feels it necessary to explore in order to complete the idea he is addressing. Big old Victorian houses that need painting every year and garlic bulbs and local food are part of the landscape of Vermont. What parts of the illusion do I cherish and want to keep in my life? What parts seem like the DisneyWorld Pastoral Ride to me? It seems many of the places I have lived have strong identities ("Santa Fe" evokes a rich tapestry of images that are quite distinct from the equally rich tapestry of images evoked by the word "Vermont"). When I look at a map of the USA I realize that ideas of place keep me from considering many states as home. In fact, right now, I think the lack of a myth about another place is keeping us stationary.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stationary, not immobile. Just had a wonderful day with a friend driving down and back to New Bedford to see <a href="http://www.elinnoble.com/Elin_Noble/HOME.html">Elin Noble</a>'s inspiring exhibition at Colo Colo Gallery. These small marbled pictures are worlds within worlds, swirling energies of macro and microcosm, everything contained in nuances of black and white.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also got to visit the Slocum's River Reserve to see <a href="http://www.lasseantonsen.net/lasseantonsen/Home.html">Lasse Antonsen</a>'s installation of Garden Spirits. Eeire forms, part tree, part insect, part alien figure, the installation is a wonderful start of a career change where Lasse has exchanged his curator's hat for that of an artist's. I am sure this multi-faceted creator is actually going to be many-headed continuing as writer, teacher, artist, explorer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What we didn't get to do was shop at Amaral's or walk the beach at Horseneck Beach--both priorities on the trip but proof that things are not in our control. However, I was able to get some Portuguese food items at Marketbasket--needed because the current <a href="http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/">Dowdy Corners Cookbook Club</a> selection is <a href="http://leitesculinaria.com/the-new-portuguese-table">David Leite's The New Portuguese Table</a>. I made his green soup last night and it was delicious--perfect for these early fall days that seem colder than they are because they are in such close proximity to the glorious warmth of summer. You know I am not a cold weather aficianado, but I admit that I am ready to put away the scraper and pick up a shuttle, exchanging one repetitive motion for another.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I joined the <a href="http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/">Dowdy Corners Cookbook Club</a>! This might not seem newsworthy to you but it shows a shift in terrain for me. <a href="http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/news/about-your-host/">Holly Jennings</a> (third from left in the photo above) is the founder of the club--amazingly patient cook (read her past posts), photographer, and alumni of same <a href="http://www.cranbrookart.edu/index7.html">graduate school</a> as me. That's how we met--introduced via email by a mutual friend from school. I couldn't quite believe that someone else from Cranbrook had moved to this small town, but she had. When we first met, and she told me about the cookbook club, I was definitely interested in joining; but that was a period when I was pulling back from everything. I remember telling her that I had a tendency to join and then quit, so I would save us both the trouble and just not join. That was several years ago, and though I didn't join, I did read her blog and even bought one of the books and cooked from it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holly and Wendy (second from left in photo above) stopped by our porch during the town's July 4th parade and Wendy was very enthusiastic about the cookbook club and encouraged me and Marianne (left in photo above) to join. Suddenly it made sense to me. I love cooking (sometimes). It is one of the few things that really gets my attention these days, and I want to learn more about it, I want to get better. I even want to go back and get a degree in baking, though I doubt I will do that. So I said yes. And then I did it. I actually signed up on line and bought the current selection, <i><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/04/new-cookbook-ripe-a-cook-in-the-orchard-by-nigel-slater.html">Ripe</a></i> by Nigel Slater. In fact, I actually bought a different <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ripe-Colorful-Approach-Fruits-Vegetables/dp/0762440244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345905317&sr=8-1&keywords=ripe+cookbook">Ripe</a></i> first--amazed that it was so much less expensive at Jessica's Biscuits than on Amazon--not noticing that it was a different price because it had a different author. Both books are pictured above.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think of Slater's book as a non-recipe book. It is a beautiful book--inspiring pictures, luscious words, and simple instructions. Sort of, wash a peach and eat it. But I used it (and Cheryl Sternman Rule's book) for many dishes (his blueberry pancakes made with ricotta cheese are excellent, and once I made them with glutton-free flour and they might have been even better than the first round which were also delicious) and felt that both books had something to offer. But when I went to the pot luck last week I was amazed at how wonderful the meal was--how every dish enhanced the other. Nothing was too sweet. Everything tasted fresh and satisfying. I think the other people (Melanie is 2nd from right, and Tamara is on the right) all felt the same. Maybe this book (Slater's) has more to it than I gave him credit for. I can't wait to read Holly's evaluation on the blog. By the way, she encourages people from other areas <a href="http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/club-folder/join-dccc/">to join</a>, and to start their own group for potlucks. I love the idea of communities of cooks gathering together all over the country comparing dishes they made from the same book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I often don't spend money on anything except the monthly bills (boring and annoyingly regular) but I do spend money on food shopping and books. For awhile now I have managed not to buy books--and the <a href="http://www.kimballlibrary.org/">Kimball Library</a> here in Randolph is fantastic about getting books that are requested (and the staff are super excellent)--but I admit that a perk of joining the club is that I now can legitimately buy cookbooks. I have to--library loan just won't do for something like this (so I say). You should see my wish lists on various sites (but I think I made them private).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a visitor the other day who had some questions about fiber processes and during the discussion I pulled out my copy of <i><a href="http://www.abebooks.com/9780442216344/Beyond-Craft-Art-Fabric-Constantine-0442216343/plp">Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric</a></i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Constantine">Mildred Constantine</a> and <a href="http://longhouse.org/larsen.ihtml">Jack Lenor Larsen</a>. Most of you know this was the first definitive book on fiber art. I have looked at this book hundreds of times. Some works, like Susan Weitzman's <i>HUM</i>, have always left me breathless. She is one of those mysterious artists who made such an impact on people but who removed herself from the spotlight, something else drew her attention. But what she contributed has withstood the decades of change since she made that work. It still pulls me in and holds my attention. Other works are just invisible to my eyes and sensibilities, though I recognize their ambition and creativity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I must say, this is a time to pull that book off your shelves again and look through it. It is full of the most amazing work, by artists who truly were pioneers, working with materials in ways no one had thought of before and in a scale that is, even now, mind-boggling. I have just put a few details of works above, pieces that have great subtlety, simplicity, imagination, and skill. None of them tell stories per se. They are not the works that would have attracted me (except Weitzman's) when I first saw the book. But WOW--they sure look interesting to me today. And of course, the great tragedy, in this current time of anything goes--where fiber seems to be the material of choice for many young artists--the works in this book are not known. So pull that book off your shelves and start showing it to everyone you know who says they are interested in art. It really is a book that has retained its relevancy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a final note to say that I have completed re-finishing my six panels of <i>Nomad</i>. I don't have a wall large enough to photograph the six panels together so I had to do it three by three. No lights either, but....The <a href="http://fullercraft.org/">Fuller Craft Museum</a> has posted the exhibition information: <i><a href="http://fullercraft.org/event/grand-tales-of-the-loom-four-master-weavers/">Grand Tales of the Loom: Four Master Weavers</a>.</i> The exhibition will run from September 22, 2012 through January 20, 2013. There will be an artists' reception on Sunday, September 30th from 2-5 pm and all of us (myself, Cyndy Barbone, Deborah Carlson, and Fuyuko Matsubara) will be there. The four of us "came of age" as artists in the 1980s, a generation after the artists in <i>Beyond Craft</i>. We stayed with the loom, really mastering its possibilities, rather than working away from it, as did most of the artists in that book. We had our own "time" and as artists and teachers, we influenced others. I do hope this show will again prove that working at the loom in a careful, thoughtful way is still relevant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, one comment more about Joan Didion's book, <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/blue-nights-by-joan-didion-book-review.html">Blue Nights</a></i>. I read the book straight through yesterday. At the back of the book, a library book, was a page where readers could leave comments. The first commenter felt she had never encountered a more self-centered woman, and added, "get a life." The second comment noted how sad the book was. I wasn't going to add anything but just couldn't help coming to Didion's defense, so I added something to the effect that she talks about truths that others want to ignore, deny, or hide from. The loss of her husband and daughter within 20 months of each other is almost too sad to bear. The way she keeps repeating certain phrases over and over reminds me of the way our minds gloam onto something and get stuck, the way records used to do. A life full of memories but always the same few come back to haunt us. And her writing about aging, so stark and honest, is almost terrifying. I note in my own life how 66 is nothing like I imagined it. It is both better and worse. And honestly, I don't think my friends who are younger can understand until they get here. I might think I am 12 inside, but when the young man at the liquor store tells me I shouldn't waste my money on an expensive (we are talking $20 here) bottle of wine because "older people can't taste things anymore" I admit that I am shocked at both his rudeness and the fact that he sees me as old. So Didion's experiences of vulnerability and insult are ones I can hear. I haven't read much by her, but I found this book compelling. And the shift of terrain I mentioned at the start of this post is something about aging, and finding new ways to engage with the preciousness of time.</span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-63009309238491846352012-08-11T12:21:00.000-04:002012-08-11T12:21:36.587-04:00Navigating Truth<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a picture of the top of the Chinese chest that is in our dining room. Does it look like I am someone who would enjoy craft fairs?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ethnographic fairs--YES--but craft fairs....? Yesterday, however, I dragged my husband away from painting the house (thunderstorms) and down to a famous one in New Hampshire. Once again I find myself thinking that I should try to make functional textiles; that the economic climate is only good for the .000001 percent of the artists who are showing in top NYC galleries; and that $25 is probably the price point of what most people are willing to spend on non-essentials. I thought maybe I would get inspired by seeing what others are doing. Instead I found myself thinking of one of Fran Lebowitz's statements in <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1734477/">Public Speaking</a></i> (the Martin Scorsese excellent documentary on this outrageous and brilliant writer). She was telling an audience that just because you think something doesn't mean you have to write it--in fact, please don't share it with us. If I remember correctly, she even specifically mentioned blogs (I do note her words, even as I ignore them and write). So change writing to THINGS and you know how Mark and I felt at the fair.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a bright spot though in the middle of the tents, where <a href="http://www.sarahheimann.com/gallery.shtml">Sarah Heimann</a> had a booth of her beautiful, incredibly intricate carved ceramics. Seeing her work was worth the price of admission. One of her pots would look very good indeed on our Chinese cabinet top.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This might not seem related, but I have been busy reading cookbooks and chef's memoirs this summer. Have you read <a href="http://bloodbonesandbutter.net/">Blood, Bones and Butter</a> by Gabrielle Hamilton? I might not want to become her close friend (and what is the likelihood that I will ever get a chance at that?) but I loved her book and the truths she writes. I related to so many things she wrote about, relating her chef's experiences to my weaving experiences--being invited to a panel on women's chefs and getting quieter and quieter as she internally compared the reality of her life to the bromides of enthusiasm the others were throwing out; or her "lack of enthusiasm" as she approached Vermont thinking about people in cars going the other way "...fellow travelers, people like us who enjoy other human contact and human activity and who don't need to be secluded on a hundred acres without even a house pet..." And now I am almost done with Anthony Bourdain's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Confidential">Kitchen Confidential</a>. I know I could never keep up with his drugs, and drinking, sex, and rock and roll but I really get it when he talks about good chefs failing when they stop doing what they do well and think they can do everything. So maybe I won't go the functional textile route, other than for my own use, or if I do, I will have to stay close to my personal likes and my strengths, and ignore the market research of finding out what others are selling.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In light of that wisdom to stay true to one's self ("Follow your bliss" is the way <a href="http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=31">Joseph Campbell</a> put it), I am refinishing the six panels of my weaving <i>Nomad</i>. I am going to be in an exhibition at <a href="http://fullercraft.org/">The Fuller Craft Museum</a> opening September 15, 2012 with an artists' reception on Sunday, September 30th. <a href="http://www.cyndybarbone.com/">Cyndy Barbone</a>, <a href="http://deborahfcarlson.blogspot.com/">Deborah Carlson</a>, <a href="http://www.iup.edu/gallery.aspx?id=38981">Fuyuko Matsubara</a> and myself will be exhibiting together. Cyndy and I put together a scale model of the exhibition and decided I should put the panels together. That led me to decide that I should stretch them onto bars so I can exhibit them taunt--the way I see the cloth on the loom--the way I like seeing the work as I make it--the way I intend it in my mind. It was going to cost almost $700 to purchase frames and canvas, and they still would have to be put together (by Mark, of course) so I was thrilled when he said he could make them from scratch (another words, stop painting the house for a week and work for me). So it is only costing one-quarter of the purchased price and it is much better because these are exactly the size I need.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was weaving <i>Nomad</i>, thinking about how large the world is, how vast the ocean, how dark the deep waters on a night without the moon, remembering living on an island in the Yucatan for eight months where the sound of the waters was always with me, I could see that the words, which map places I have lived or travelled and that take the shape of the continents of the earth, were very subtle, floating in and out of the ground water. I decided to give myself permission to be as subtle as possible, to create an experience where one has to sit with the piece and look long and hard before the piece revealed its secrets. I know I have created a difficult work for these times, where looking seems to need big panels of explanation next to a work, or a voice tour that you access as you tour an exhibition, or those recently ubiquitous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code">QR codes</a>. But I hope the new installation will invite some people to look, experience, and be inspired. A dark night, moonless....just you and the vastness of the ocean, the sky, the air, your memories, and your thoughts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just want to end by saying I had a wonderful day at <a href="http://www.kingarthurflour.com/baking/">King Arthur Bakery</a> last month, the gift of my generous friend Steve Ford (superb baker and artist extraordinaire, partner in <a href="http://www.fordforlano.com/">Ford/Forlano</a>). He took me to a sour dough bread workshop (<a href="http://www.kingarthurflour.com/visit/staff-instructors.html">Amber Eisler</a> was the excellent teacher), and Mark to a rye bread workshop. They have remodeled their facilities and the class room was terrific. I still have to learn my way around the new store, but I am sure I will.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been watching the post daily anticipating the small package that arrived today. Two rigid heddle looms that I got from <a href="http://actionweaver.com/">Travis Meinolf</a>. He calls himself an Action Weaver and I read about some projects he did with the public where he had people weave strips of cloth on these looms. He makes the rigid heddles with a lasar cutter--and I was entranced by the bright colors and energy of bringing weaving into the streets. So I wrote to see if I could purchase some, and he said he would trade if I had something to trade (he "doesn't believe in money" is the way he put it; I thought, "I was young once too.") I knew he was going to be teaching at <a href="http://www.saic.edu/people/Meinolf_Travis.html?color=ORANGE">SAIC</a> this summer, so I suggested I bake cookies and send them. After I sent the email I wondered if that was a bit too homebody, but he wrote back and said GREAT--and please send enough for the class. That was easy. Apparently he sent me two looms from Germany (he lives in Berlin) but they never arrived. Wonder who the lucky person is who has my package. I can't imagine some custom officer wanted these looms. Fortunately, Travis had two with him in Chicago, and those are what arrived today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are very clever. The flat wooden parts are ways to hold your warp at both ends, and attach them to a stationery something and around your back. Another words, a very sweet backstrap loom. I can't wait to try. And my part of the exchange--I made the madeline recipe from my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.laduree.fr/en/fabricant/produits/livres">Laduree cookbook</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and also their apricotines which are almond cookies with apricot jam sandwiched between two of them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another fun weaving-related item that is by my bedside is this book, <i><a href="http://www.weavezine.com/reviews/shuttle-her-hand-swedish-immigrant-weaver-america">Shuttle in Her Hand</a></i> by Marion Tuttle Marzolf, which my friend Toni King lent me a couple of days ago. Clicking on the title leads you to a nice review of the book online by Daryl Lancaster. Toni, who is a writer herself, knows Marzolf from Michigan where they were in a writers group together. When she read the book she thought I would be interested--and she is right. I enjoy reading about shuttles and threads and patterns and things that are familiar to me playing a leading role in a novel. I have just started but I know it is going to lead me to places and people that I know too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not doing much in my studio these days. I rationalize it this way. Winter is nine months long in Vermont, summer is a brief three months. We (Mark and I) are painting the exterior of our house (I will post an image when one side is complete) and three brief months will probably not complete it--so this is the time to be outside scraping and painting, and sooner than I like it will be cold and I will have lots of time up in my studio.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other fun thing was going to see an amazing dance performance held in the Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms. I think I wrote about seeing the movie <i><a href="http://www.pina-film.de/en/">Pina</a></i> on this blog--and if not, I should have. It was so profound, and most nights one of us is watching some video clip of Pina Bausch and her group. I find the music as mesmerizing as the movement. So when a friend told me about this dance performance directed by Hannah Dennison called <i><a href="http://www.hannahdennison.org/dear-pina/">Dear Pina</a></i>, the name alone inspired me to buy tickets. Clicking on the title brings you to Dennison's website about the dance. You can see parts of the dance, images of the barn, and you can see the costumes. If you look carefully at the brochure above you will see that I tried to sketch one of the dresses. I even asked the costume designer, Marz Black aka Leslie Anderson, if she had a pattern I could buy but she said she doesn't use patterns and besides each dress was made specifically for each dancer. Maybe I should have offered to barter cookies for a pattern specific for me.</span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-86781172814913266022012-06-14T15:02:00.000-04:002012-06-14T15:24:38.523-04:00Art and Food<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before any of our trips to NYC I always spend time on the computer doing research. I make lists of all the museums and galleries, their locations and what is showing. It doesn't matter that I have copies of the gallery guide, or I have done this before, or even that I think I can find most of them blindfolded, I still make my lists. I also make lists of potential restaurants--and the top item I look for are dim sum restaurants. It is nice to see that <a href="http://nomwah.com/history/history-of-nom-wah/">Nom Wah Tea Parlor</a>, the first place my mother took me for dim sum when I was a child, is still open and recently getting good press, after a period of some questionable reports. Sadly three trips to NYC and I still haven't fit dim sum into the equation. I think it was easier when galleries were in Soho, but Chelsea is just a bit off the route to Chinatown.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did get to Laduree though. Be sure to click <a href="http://www.laduree.fr/en/scene">HERE</a> and see their website--the animation just seems so perfect for their product and image. It's located just south of the Whitney Museum, and the Biennial was definitely on our to do list. It was pouring rain and as we approached the store we heard one man say to his companion, "The line would be winding around the corner if it wasn't raining so hard." So we lucked out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I purchased their cookbook, Sucre, after reading about it on the <a href="http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com/search/label/Macarons">Not So Humble Pie</a> blog. It came packaged in a box that looked like it was full of sweets, and when you open the box you find this softly colored tissue paper and small book with gold paper edges and a velvet cover. The pictures are scrumptous and I remember that Mark, my friend Marianne, and I just sat there and turned every page in the book--oohing and ahhing the whole time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a selection of different macarons for dessert that night. We cut them into quarters and critiqued them with our friends as we ate them. The raspberry one just seemed like regular jam inside, and the vanilla one (I think) had a sort of marshmellow-like filling that I didn't like at all (and I like marshmellow), but all the rest were delicious. It was so much fun to actually buy and taste them but I think in the future I will just make my own.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial">Whitney Biennial 2012</a> is closed now but we managed to get there during the final week. I thought it was a relatively quiet show. Textiles are definitely a popular medium now and <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/ElaineReichek">Elaine Reichek's</a> room and the shroud woven by <a href="http://www.saic.edu/people/Meinolf_Travis.html?color=GREEN">Travis Meinolf</a> were both prominent. I have been a fan of <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/WernerHerzog">Werner Herzog</a> since seeing his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre">Nosferatu</a> in 1979, and as I approached the space where his installation was located, the music coming out of it let me know I had arrived. If you click on his name in the previous sentence, you can listen to a discussion he had with the curators of the Biennial on May 17th. Does anyone else have such a wonderful hypnotic mesmerizing enthusiastic voice? He opens my heart to wonder.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We timed this trip so we could attend an opening of the exhibition <a href="http://masterspelavin.com/silence-pressrelease/">Silence</a> at Masters & Pelavin, which included work by our friend <a href="http://annelindberg.com/">Anne Lindberg</a>. It was packed, so the title <i>Silence</i> was like an oxymoron--but then the curator, Jaanika Peerna, asked for a moment of silence and a sense of peace took over the room. Mostly I get to encourage and applaud my friends these days through Facebook and email--we are all so spread out in space--so it was really meaningful to be able to see Anne (and her husband) and share her success in person.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the way home we spent hours at <a href="http://www.diaart.org/sites/main/beacon">DIA Beacon</a>. No pictures are allowed so you will just have to go in person and experience the work, the place, the ambiance. My advice: GO! To me it was definitely a holy pilgrimage. This is the art that I understand as "Art." Robert Ryman, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Blinky Palermo, Walter De Maria...and the list goes on. GO! </span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-12890748783926100842012-06-10T11:43:00.000-04:002012-06-10T18:27:56.984-04:00Already Memories<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We came home from NYC with more than the Pisco Brandy that we bought. Not surprising since it rained the whole time we were there and we walked around with wet feet for days. We live a very isolated life in Vermont, so the crowds in the museums, galleries and buses must have given us some germ that has caused constant coughing, sneezing and hacking since May 25. Finally we both went to doctors and are on the mend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why the Pisco Brandy? Well I made a <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/bobby-flay/index.html">Bobby Flay</a> dinner for a party a month or so ago that included his Pisco Sour Sangria. I had gotten all the ingredients and then discovered that none of the liquor stores in NH or VT (state-run) sell Pisco. I substituted Grappa, and it was delicious, but I put Pisco on my NYC list. Every store I went in had several choices. I haven't tried it yet but it is something to look forward to later this summer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went across the Tappan Zee Bridge into Westchester, then the Bronx, over another two bridges into Brooklyn and later that day through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel into Manhattan. We must have paid every toll possible in just a few days, and it did feel like we were hemorrhaging money. We went to Brooklyn so I could have a discussion/critique of my work with the curator of the <a href="http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/">Drawing Center's Viewing Program</a>. It feels like perk enough to have my work included in the Viewing Program (if you click <a href="http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/portfolio.cfm">HERE</a> it takes you to the home page where you can enter my name in the "Name or Keyword Search" area and go to my page), but I was thrilled to have an opportunity to meet with <a href="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/">Nina Katchadourian</a>. You may have seen The <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2012/04/2.html">New Yorker blog article</a> on her work, which was going around the Internet recently. I don't feel ready to discuss the generous conversation I had with Nina; I am still digesting and distilling it, seeing where it takes me and holding it close. But I will share my thoughts when I am ready. Meanwhile please go to my page, which I feel very good about, and give me some feedback.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were just blocks away from the Windsor Place house we called home from 1983-1987, so of course we took a drive down nostalgia lane. The street is a facade of connected row houses. Every house on the block has been upgraded with vinyl siding in every pastel color imaginable, except the house where we lived. It had its familiar asphalt-siding (I always called it linoleum siding) and door with peeling paint and general air of weariness. It is our fish that got away. But if we had bought it when we could, I would never have gone to graduate school, or become a college professor, or lived in as many states as we have tried.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We headed for Chelsea galleries after Brooklyn. This trip we only had a chance to go there two afternoons, so we didn't see everything, but a little inspiration can go a long way. Nina recommended the Ernesto Neto show at <a href="http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibit.php">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> and the <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/richard-avedon--may-04-2012">Richard Avedon</a> which was showing across the street at one of the Gagosian spaces. I like Neto's work, have watched it for years, but I am not so crazy about the recent spate of "gallery as amusement park" exhibitions. Bonakdar does have the kindest, friendliest staff that I have encountered in years, and I guess they need this attitude to deal with all the families with small children that I saw climbing all over the Neto's (as he intended). I loved the Avedon's because, like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/books/18book.html">Patti Smith's "Just Kids"</a>, it brought me right back to my formative years. <a href="http://www.allenginsberg.org/">Ginsburg</a> was always a hero of mine (first time I heard him read was in NYC around the time some of these photos were taken [he was so young!]) and it is amazing to stand in front of these huge images and study the people. Big art is so impressive and I am still struggling with the idea of how I can make my work big, bigger, biggest and still make it myself (which I want to do) and not physically destroy myself while making it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I am not done with the trip, but will stop for today. Have to go outside and scrape paint from our enormous house which just feels bigger with every scraping motion. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While thinking about moving again (nomadic to the core), I heard myself saying about one possibility, "but it's too far away." So then I had to ask, "too far from what?" and realized that New York City is still my anchor point. I was born in the city, and though raised on Long Island, I always knew it was where I would go when I finished college. It is the only place where I have my bearings. I know north, south, east and west when I am on those streets. A trip to New York is always anticipated with excitement, and savored afterwards. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past week we went there, though most of the trip involved activities near the city rather than in the city. It's too much to share in one post, so I will begin here, and try to return in a timely manner to tell the rest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We spent the first night overlooking the Hudson River in Rockland County with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pathickman.com/">Pat Hickman</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and Gail Hovey. Their home is full of textiles, ethnographic and contemporary. It confirms a kinship I feel with them and with their curiosity and creativity. Their move from Hawaii to here has brought them back into the thick of a cultural pulse that I long for. Before finding their house, they found Pat's studio, which we visited the next morning. Gail has dedicated writing space in their home. Clearly they have their priorities right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pat's studio is in an old calico mill, now called the <a href="http://www.gagaartscenter.org/garner%20home.html">Garner Arts Center</a> (GAGA). In the short time we were there we met several other artists who have space in the buildings. Steph Gorin, owner of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loop">Loop</a>, is just down the hall from Pat. She was just back from the <a href="http://www.sheepandwool.org/">Maryland Sheep and Wool</a> festival where she was selling her fiber and yarn. (Someday I am going to make it to that event.) She has a wonderful smile and enthusiasm for what she does, and allowed me to photograph her equipment. As an owner of a high tech loom (my beloved TC-1), I could really appreciate her equipment and the unique yarns she creates for others to use. (By the way, did you know the <a href="http://dwn-tc2.blogspot.com/">TC-2</a> is launched and that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-xfoDc21g">Vibeke Vestby</a> will be bringing them to <a href="http://www.weavespindye.org/?loc=8-00-00">Convergence</a> this July?) We also met <a href="http://www.EricDavidLaxman.com/">Eric David Laxman</a>, a sculptor whose studio was badly damaged from Hurricane Irene. He was actually clearing it out for a move to a new home studio, but he still has a gallery at GAGA. We were also introduced to several other artists, and left appreciating the support community gives to each other, and at the same time what dedicated studio space opens up for creative work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was a student in the late 1970s, the collaborative baskets of Pat Hickman and <a href="http://www.textilesociety.org/awards_elliot.htm">Lillian Elliot</a> were very prominent in the fiber world. I think it is one of the great things about this field that people have always been approachable and friendly. I'm not embarrassed to say that I feel awe when I realize that I have become friends with Pat; that she and Gail welcomed us to their home and the conversations reminded me of why I am a weaver and how much I love textiles (some of them). We all have changed over the years, just as the field has changed, and I certainly see textiles being used by artists everywhere--but the identity with this material is not the same today as it used to be. We have changed too, but there is some fundamental devotion to the lineage of textiles that is essential for me--and I am glad to find this devotion alive and well in Pat, even though fiber is too narrow a definition to describe her work. She gave me a copy of the <a href="http://www.nationalbasketry.org/">National Basketry Organization</a> (NBO) Quarterly Journal with an excellent article on her work written by Catharine K. Hunter. The image above shows the magazine article, with one of my favorite sculptures by her, <i>Garlic</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the fall when I went to NYC, I also intended to do several posts about the trip, and instead I only did one, and then stopped posting for months and months. This time I promise to continue in a day or two.</span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-35969677269438993992012-05-15T15:34:00.000-04:002012-05-15T15:34:35.998-04:00Circles and Grids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other day I was mesmerized by the raindrops in street puddles but I didn't have my camera with me. Its been drizzling for days but today the weather finally cooperated and created some puddles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They might become the basis of some weavings. Which will contrast with what I am currently working on--grid lines that come and go. Very simple but it fascinates me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just when I think winter will never end, the buds start showing up and there is hope. This year the buds appeared, then there was a freeze and I panicked--maybe they wouldn't bloom. But here they are.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their beauty so strong that they get me out of the house to look closer, and to share with you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This bloom reminds me of the incredible painting by <a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/743.html">Van Gogh</a> that is on display at the Philadelphia Art Museum in the exhibition <i>Van Gogh Up Close. </i>It closes tomorrow but moves on to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottowa, May 25 to September 3, 2012. The painting comes right at the end of the exhibition, and clearly the curators also feel the power of this painting since they put it as the first illustration in the catalog and as a two-page detail at the end. <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/03/arts/design/20120203-VANGOGH-7.html">Almond Blossom</a></i>, from 1890, shows a branch of the flowering tree silhouetted against a fantastic blue-green sky. When I saw it I almost burst into tears. It has nothing contrived about it. It's not cleaver, or witty, or conceptually smart--it simply conveys an absolutely present communication between the artist and the tree--so honest that anyone looking at the painting must feel the exhilaration of being alive. It is what I wish of my work, and why I appreciate the tree outside my window.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for the encouragement to continue writing this blog that came in emails and online. It makes me happy to share my thoughts with you; keeps me connected from my corner of the world. I do post in facebook fairly often, so if you aren't my friend there, please send a request. You can like my professional page (bhakti ziek weaver) or ask to be friends on my personal page (bhakti ziek). Or do both--why not?</span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-36932486128857124742012-04-23T13:42:00.000-04:002012-04-23T13:54:05.570-04:00Spring Post<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although I haven't written in this blog for many months, I certainly have thought about it. Too bad you can't read my mind, some of the posts were intelligent and interesting. On the other hand, maybe it is a good idea you can't read my mind.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted you to know that I finished my six panel weaving <i>My Roof</i> and have shown three of the panels in Philadelphia at the <a href="http://philartalliance.org/exhibits.htm">Art Alliance</a> (<i>My Roof: East</i>) and tomorrow the other three panels (<i>My Roof: West</i>) debut at the Durango Arts Center in the exhibition <a href="http://durangoarts.org/events/textiles">Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium</a>, curated by <a href="http://ilzeaviks.com/">Ilze Aviks</a>. The exhibition will run from April 24 - June 2, 2012. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I admit the thing that really got me excited about posting was the chocolate caramel sea salt tart shown above. <a href="http://www.patklein.com/">Pat dipaula Klein</a> is a wonderful artist who lives near Philadelphia. We were colleagues together at Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, but our friendship really developed through the connection to <a href="http://www.bigtowngallery.com/pages/artists.html">BigTown Gallery</a> in Rochester, Vermont, where we both show. She and her husband come to Vermont each year to visit good friends and we have gotten to know each other, which has also blossomed into a wonderful email exchange. Pat's daughter Julie owns the <a href="http://www.lovinovenfrenchtown.com/">Lovin' Oven</a> in Frenchtown, NJ and she was featured on the Food Channel's <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/the-best-thing-i-ever-ate/index.html">The Best Thing I Ever Ate</a>. I saw the program and have lusted after her salted chocolate caramel tart ever since. We even stopped at the restaurant on our last trip home from Philadelphia but forgot to check days and hours ahead of time and pulled up to find it closed. So when Pat said she would bring dessert to dinner this week ("something from Julie"), of course I requested THE Tart. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful evening of friendship, laughter and buzzing energy. I can still taste the burst of salt mixed with the chocolate and caramel. Next trip to Philadelphia we will time it for a full meal at the Lovin' Oven with Pat and Phil. I know what I will have for dessert.</span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-35605878072108078202011-09-16T18:11:00.002-04:002011-09-16T18:11:59.935-04:00New York, New York<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just back from a week in New York City. We went there primarily for art but of course I took advantage of the fact that macarons are everywhere and did some scientific research on taste. Prices ranged from $1.95 to $3.00 per cookie, and texture and flavors varied considerably. They all looked pretty but I would not purchase any of them a second time. On the other hand, the cappuccino pictured above at the Espresso Bar on 6th Avenue near 57th Street was definitely something to repeat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather was beautiful, the moon sublime, and the city familiar and strange at the same time. We noticed so many wonderful new buildings, and visited some classics, like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Building">Chrysler Building</a> above right. We made pilgrimages to some art supply stores, resisting temptation until we got to <a href="http://www.kremerpigments.com/">Kremer Pigments</a>, middle left above. It wasn't just the seductive shelves of color, but the kindness of the two people working there that convinced us to make purchases. I found the current bible of natural dyes there (<a href="http://kremerpigments.com/shopus/index.php?cat=10&lang=ENG&product=BOCARDON">Dominique Cardon's <i>Natural Dyes</i></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) and snapped it up (okay, Amazon would have been less but this place had character).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />We went to museums and galleries (I will post about some later) and were amazed at the crowds viewing art. I remember turning to Mark and asking, "Do all these people really love art?" He reminded me of the high entry fees for entering the museums, so clearly they must have some commitment to be there. In the past I could always find an area of the MET that was quiet and off the beaten path--the crowds staying in the current blockbuster, the art lovers wandering into the corners--but this trip every room of the MET (and we probably entered most of them) was crowded.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The city seems much cleaner and upscale in all the neighborhoods than before. We went north, south, east and west and it was very rare to see someone asking for money. The one street dwelling that I saw had an Ikea chair like one I used to own. Of course I am older than when I last visited New York (it has been almost 11 years), but the population of the city also seemed much younger and wealthier than I remembered. I was a resident of the city at 21, so I know about "owning" the city, about posturing and attitude, but we did it on a shoestring. Even today I feel hailing a taxi is an outrageous way to spend money. The 7 Day Metro Cards that we purchased made the buses and subway extremely easy to use.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />This trip was really a "grant" from two wonderful friends who went to Portugal and invited us to stay in their apartment. We missed seeing them (luckily had dinner with one of them the last night) but we were able to spend time with some other friends. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://davidreisman.com/">David Reisman</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://markagoodwin.com/home/paintings/">Mark</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (above bottom right) studied art together at University of Kansas in the late '70s--and they are both still making art. Going to Chelsea galleries with him was lots of fun. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I got home I noticed that <a href="http://www.maryearly.com/3/artist.asp?ArtistID=33683&Akey=T9LNVX4L">Mary Early</a> had posted an interesting <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/09/12/140394807/extreme-tidying-up">article</a> on Facebook about organizing things and it reminded me of these images I took at the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/">MET</a> in the Egyptian area. Aren't the stacks of linen wonderful?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a note to say that the <a href="http://www.bigtowngallery.com/">exhibition I am in with Pat Adams, at BigTown Gallery</a>, has been extended until October 23, 2011. Things are getting back to normal in Rochester, Vermont with many of the roads accessible now, but that town has been badly hurt and if anyone wants to contribute to helping this town that truly has a heart, you can make a donation. Click <a href="http://www.rochestervermont.org/?category_name=donations">HERE</a> for a link. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/us/02floods.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=anni%20mackay&st=cse">New York Times</a> mentions Anni Mackay, owner of BigTown Gallery, as one of the town heroes.</span></div>
Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684257613477579090.post-36996180518081232442011-09-04T01:08:00.000-04:002011-09-04T01:14:02.783-04:00After the Storm<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hard to believe that a week ago I was at the opening of my show with Pat Adams at <a href="http://www.bigtowngallery.com/">BigTown Gallery</a> in Rochester, VT. We knew the storm was on its way, but the evening was clear and calm and lots of people showed up to make the opening very festive. At 4pm there was an informal talk between Anni MacKay, Pat Adams, myself, and the audience and then there was the whirlwind of conversations and greetings that happens at openings. It was a really great evening, and as we left, Anni said she was heading out to pick her vegetables before the rain started.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We had 24 hours of rain, nothing seemed particularly severe, and I woke Monday morning to a clear blue sky day and fresh crisp air cleansed by the rain. We had electricity and when calls started to come in asking if we were alright, I was a bit puzzled. The news up here didn't mention Vermont, but apparently the rest of the country knew that Vermont was a mess. Then at 10am our electric and phone went out. Rumors flew about causes and length of time--I really didn't like the prediction of three weeks before it would be fixed. A small stream turned into a river and took out a substation and most of Randolph was without electricity for 2.5 days. Minor inconveniences (we got charcoal and pulled out our weber grill and I bought these 14 hour candles and found that reading by candlelight is not much fun) compared to many places in the state, and to some other people in Randolph who did have serious problems.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rochester was one of the 13 (or more?) towns that were cut off from the world. Bridges were destroyed, the road over the mountain that we had taken the night before had become a river bed and washed away the road and some houses. Once we got power back we started looking at everything we could find online hoping to get some info on our friends at BigTown. Finally we saw a photo and could identify Anni and Dunne, so at least we knew they were okay. And yesterday we got a call saying everyone there was okay, and would it be acceptable if they extended the show until October 23rd! Seems a bit selfish to be thinking about my show in the midst of all the mud and cleanup and suffering, but I admit I was happy to hear that people will have extra time to see this show. Pat's paintings and my weavings share the space in very compatible harmony and at times seem to be talking to each other.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what did I do as soon as the electricity came on? I baked Macarons! I have made them before following a Martha Stewart recipe and I thought they were delicious and perfect, but what did I know? Recently I bought a new cookbook (<a href="http://www.sugarbabycookbook.com/">Sugarbaby by Gesine Bullock-Prado</a>). The cover picture of spun sugar spoke to my heart and then I realized this was the Gesine who had a pastry shop in Montpelier when we first moved here who made magnificent sweets, so of course I had to buy the book. So I followed her recipe and they were a total failure. Because I had eaten at her shop, I knew it was me, not the recipe--so I went on line and found this great <a href="http://www.sugarbabycookbook.com/2011/03/macaron-video-tutorial.html?zx=8c5323f2c1ad3b96">video</a> of her making macarons. And I watched it several times, maybe more than that, and then I tried again. The pink cookies shown above show that I still had problems--but they tasted great. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So then I went back to the internet (this was all pre-storm pre-opening--a good way to focus my energy at stage fright time). And I discovered the most incredible blog by a woman clearly more obsessed than me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com/search/label/Macarons">Not So Humble Pie</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> has 8 posts on macarons--really a thesis on these cookies. So I tried again--and you can see the perfect little feet and nice flat shell of the yellow ones (though the color seemed to bake out). These not only looked great, they tasted sublime. All these macarons were done using the Italian Meringue method. I don't have a picture of the ones I made once the electricity came on--I used one of the Not So Humble Pie recipes for French Meringue Macaron. They looked okay (but again my coloring, blue this time, baked away), and tasted fine, but they were kind of hallow inside. Another words, I haven't figured it out yet and will have to bake some more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lucky for me I was already working on a project on my Macomber loom (no electricity needed) when we lost power, so I could keep working during the days. You can see the 18 yards of linen competing with the woodpile for size above. I really am afraid to cut and sew it myself (we all have our expertise) but will do it so Kelly can have her curtains.</span>Bhakti Ziekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14192981685649701424noreply@blogger.com0