Way back about a year or so ago, I got my name on a list for showing art at a local bank. They got in touch with me a couple of weeks ago – I had totally forgotten! – and so as of yesterday, my collection of Dutch Master inspired photographs is now hanging at TD Bank on Triangle Street in Amherst, MA for the next month.
It’s been a stupidly busy and exhausting few months. I’m chalking it up to the pandemic and the ongoing house hunt (which has been made far more stressful by the pandemic). Making has not been happening, which just makes me more exhausted. I know I’m not the only one – we’re all exhausted. Of course, the election is also adding to the pervasive existential dread of the year.
About a month ago, I did finish (finally, a year later) the grey-with-a-red-stripe dishtowels I had started. I ended up with eleven total, and I chose the six best, packed them up, and mailed them off. They arrived on the couples’ one year anniversary, so that was getting it in just under the wire! I am not sure what I will do with the others I have. I might add them to my online shop, or I might keep them. I will take some pictures soon and post them here.
For any of you who may be reading this and are wondering about my shop, I’ve got it on hold at the moment. I haven’t had time to take decent photos of the towels, and to be honest, I’d really like to redesign my shop. So, if you see anything on this site that you think you might like to buy, you can email or comment.
Weaving anything new is on hold at the moment as I’ll be moving, house purchase or no, elsewhere around the end of the year. My big loom may end up in a friend’s studio or in storage – it’s not yet clear. I hadn’t been spinning for months because of the weather. It was just too warm, and the tamoxifen-induced hot flashes meant my hands got all sweaty, which is a terrible thing for unspun fiber. It isn’t at all clear if I’ll have room to spin where I’ll be moving to if I can’t find a house in the next couple of weeks. Things are so uncertain. However, at some point in the future, I will have a place of my own, and then I’ll be able to make All The Things again.
Stay safe, everyone. Hang in there. Make things if you can. But also definitely rest if you need to.
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Congrats on the exhibition. So great to have your work on public display. It’s challenging at the moment, everywhere, just with different degrees of concern about different stuff. Several states in Australia are back to a careful normal but we’re still in lockdown in Melbourne. The world is holding its breath on your elections and hoping for a smooth transition of power. Stay strong.
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Thank you so much. Thank you thank you thank you. We are all hoping that the election fixes things. I was chatting with a friend in New Zealand the other day, and she also said her country was crossing their collective fingers for us. I cannot tell you how much better it makes me feel to hear people in other countries tell me directly that they’re sending us hope that this coming election will get rid of Trump. It’s weird, I know. Maybe because I spent some years living in other countries…
I am really glad to hear that things in Australia are improving as far as COVID. I hope they continue to improve and that Melbourne will get to a careful normal for you soon.
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Thanks for your reply. Happy to report Melbourne has just had 2 consecutive days of zero new cases, zero deaths. It has taken a great deal of public health and political leadership and a great deal of compliance from the people to get to that. It can be done, with effort, masks and at a price in economic and social terms. We will continue to hope and wish for Trump’s electoral demise. He’s a bad influence on policians in other countries.
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