stitch-friends

Love this card. I feel inspired to embroider it... hmmm

2011-07-11T03:10:00.001-07:00

Adore and worship Takashi Murakami.

2011-07-11T02:58:00.000-07:00

Combining the designs of Louis Vuitton with Takashi Murakami, this may be the first designer QR code ever. The stylized QR code above works like a barcode. The first time Takashi Murakami’s work has been interactive.

Another Takashi ( the name must be imbued with creative powers) Takashi Iwasaki

2011-07-08T03:40:00.000-07:00

Manages to make embroidery lines appear loosely hand-painted or drawn. To me the embroideries are reminiscent of Paul Klee.

fabric of life

2011-01-17T13:55:00.000-08:00

For one of the final projects before she died, New York artist, Louise Bourgeois recycled her old clothes into poetry. "Ode â l'Oubli" ("Ode to Forgetfulness),' is her beautiful fabric book. Its a tactile diary of her long, trans-Atlantic life. "I want to re-experience the past, I try to reconstruct it. ... Sudden recollections that are awakened by the senses tell you more than emotions that are too vague or too overwhelming or too intractable,"

Well-used fabric has that ability to embody both a communal, historical moment and a local, specific story. Inhering in fabric is the fabric of our lives.

2010-07-01T16:24:00.000-07:00

I found this the other day by British Ceramic Artist and Writer Edmund de Waal:

Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities.
It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace.
It offers places, interstices, where objects and people meet.
It is unstable, contingent.
It is about experience.
It is about desire.
It can be beautiful.

— Edmund de Waal

2010-06-13T22:07:00.000-07:00

I love the obsessiveness behind these two videos.