Monday I mailed a 19x19x24" cardboard box with 8 of my most important artwork of the past 10 years in it. It cannot be insured for its true value. It is heading for Boston via The US Postal Service. From my bird's eye view, I can see the snow blowing and the wind gusting as it gets transported in a white truck with red and blue trim. If it gets lost, I want it to be lost in the semi-socialist service of this part of the United States government, and not lost by a private company such as UPS or FedEx. That is my way of being patriotic. I am trusting this government regulated agency with my textile heart. The work is not mediocre. It is quite inventive. It should be going to a museum, but I am happy to have my work shown by a fiber gallery run by fiber-hearted women in a major United States harbor city. When I get home from my house sitting job (I cannot yet make a living with my art), I will post some of this work. You won't be able to see the richness and depth of my work from these photos. So if you are in Boston anytime from March 5th to April 23rd, please see my show,"Stitched into Reality".
The name of the shop/gallery is Bead + Fiber on Harrison Blvd. in South Boston.
Please check out their website:www.beadandfiber.net. My work has not arrived yet, but there will be images on this site soon.
Many thanks to Barbara Poole, a fellow artist-in-residency who I met at the Jentel Foundation in Banner, Wyoming in 2006, for inviting me to do this show. She is a wonderful painter and felt-maker and inspired me to begin a hooping journey that is still in progress. She gave me a photo myself when I first picked up the hula hoop at Jentel. She added a rainbow and the quote from the Wizard of Oz. "Never give up. You don't know how it will end." And I haven't given up. I am just beginning.
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