Art Fabric

Where this future will take our artists can not be forecast.  They belong in the mainstream of modern art.  It’s wholeness, the inseparability of all its fundamentals, it’s materials, it’s techniques - demands to be experienced as art beyond craft.  

Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larson

Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric 1972

Suns and moons and a single star

 Starting from one’s knowledge of the beautiful effects of colours isn’t the same as copying nature mechanically and slavishly. 

Van Gogh letter #537 to Theo. Wednesday October 28, 1885

Your fragile life

Art objects remove us from the everyday. 

white cross

 

We gather information with our senses.  Touch. Smell. Taste. 

These are REAL.  

The body knows.