my main site “albedo” has been wrongly deactivated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have done NOTHING to violate any WordPress terms of service! I am NOT a spammer, crap poster, seller of shit or a stealer of images and content–gimme it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If they can’t fix it, i have lost EVERYTHING on that site—-It deactivated *while* i was posting an entry–i cannot access anything, it says it is gone, i do not get to post on the WP support forums , i do not get to pass go and collect 200 dollars–

%$^&&^$%^$$##!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

pace

Forty minutes one night……

Not overly fond of the little fellow, but he’s got a ways to go to being fleshed out, so i may end up loving him after all….

 

procrastinator’s progress is not progress

I’ve fallen “behind” terribly with Anno Suturae. I had/have given myself a year –hence the title (!)–but looking at that expanse just makes me quiver. A little has been added to it, but most of it is still in my head. I did have one entrancing moment when i realized that though it is to be a whole cloth piece, i can still add to it with other techniques–itching to add some more dimensional bits, perhaps like Mother’s Heart.(Still in progress at the time of this writing.)

I sort of make “rules” for each piece as i go along (this stitch must be carried through this area, the colour here has to make sense with the one on the other side, the motifs should at least be in the same family) so i don’t think i’m “cheating” if i add another element to the plan. Some works evolve as they want to, especially over lengthy (overly lengthy?) development. It’s fabric after all, not stone! If i wait until everything is Perfect, stars aligned, stitches professional, meaning artsy and deep but not a stultifying “intellectual exercise”, i’ll never get it done. Indeed, i’ll never finish if that’s the whole point!

Also thinking about “motifs”. The anatomically correct heart shows up in a lot of my work. And by “anatomical”, i mean not the cutesy commercialized heart symbol, but an artistic rendering of an actual heart. Waaaay back when i used it for the first time, i asked an actual doctor about the way the valves and chambers went, and my image, though still interpreted, was rather accurate in its working possibility Since then, i have added, distorted and re-interpreted a lot of times–still recognizable, but now my heart. I OWN it

The very first anatomical heart:

from April 2006, fabric art journal page

And a plethora of them:

from 2005 to 2012

 

Obviously any added to to Anno will be in the neutral and earth tones i’ve chosen for this project.

Diddly squat so far on this one:

I’m totally in love at the moment with that wrapped back stitch, here as the tendrilly blood spills coming out of the heart. I’ve been trying to not use it everywhere, but again, the rules can and will change, so i think this heart at least will be finished that way.

 

 

Best be getting off the thinking pot and get cracking.

 

small moves

Poor Anno has been neglected for the last few months: inertia and interest waning due to home circumstances and finishing other work.
Remedied this week with a few sessions, and hoping to keep touching her……

 

morphing

….sort of……

Sorted out my stoodio yesterday with heaps of culling, cannabalizing, finish ups and potential projects, which meant i actually had more space than usual to work in.

Purely mental wandering, this section, asemic writing morphing into a snow dusted rowan tree.

the branches of rowan/mountain ash

 

marking another month—-invisibly

Wow, didn’t realize myself how long it’s been since i posted here–Anno is definitely a calendar girl At this rate, it will most certainly be a year in the making!

I’m trying not to belabour her–the idea is not to “mark days” with specific events, shapes or stitches, though certainly whatever is influencing, inspiring and intriguing me at the moment makes an appearance. I’m not allowing myself to pre-plan (much), though sometimes ideas get scribbled somewhere for future reference. This is after all about my approach and methods…..I can see how and where certain impressions and perceptions might work, but i’m not going to be a slave to it.

I have to admit though, through the end of October and ALL of November i barely thought about the girl, turning my hand to finish writing an article, producing things for a trunk show, finishing little bits that had lain around the stoodio too long, and trying out some new old things……..bogged down in other words when i really did want to at least think about dear Anno Suturae…

Oh, all the excuses!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m SO disappointed with myself.

 

natural pattern

Each day, each approach to this is different. Sometimes it’s a feeling, a site/sight seen, a memory, even a test of some stitch or motif.

I’ve been interested in what i call “ghost writing for a couple of years. I just never knew there was an actual term for it, until i stumbled across something similar. There’s nothing new under the sun, so i was quite surprised by the variety of examples and how they relate to what i’m doing.

Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”. With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art. The open nature of asemic works allows for meaning to occur trans-linguistically; an asemic text may be “read” in a similar fashion regardless of the reader’s natural language. Multiple meanings for the same symbolism are another possibility for an asemic work.

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Early examples of what i was doing:

“Ghostwriting” 2010

“Instinct” detail 2010

“Padded Cell:Boro’d Time” sampling ideas 2011

“Alien Twitter”, work in progress 2012

“First Communication” 2012

I started seeing patterns in what attracted me. Natural patterning, natural asemics:

salt and snow on steps like a story

the branches of rowan/mountain ash

asemic writing that will morph…..

…into the branches of a rowan