each mark is a reminder of my hand's caress

 

when you repeat an action again and again, you produce an effect of certainty or security in your viewer's mind.
you're not trying to discover something, or to convince yourself of something.
you're dealing with certainty as a formal concern, and that soothes the viewer

Jackie Winsor

two sides

There are two sides to everything.
the visible and the invisible
the present and the non-present.
Being cannot be itself without the other also being.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

rock cut side b

silence

rock cut side a

rock cut sleeves

When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles.  I have always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle.  The needle is used to repair damage.  It is a claim to forgiveness.
It is not agressive.  It is not a pin.
Louise Bourgeois

Mattawa memory

I'm so glad I met you.

phenomenology

 

phenomonology:

a philosophical approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience

a philosophy of embodiement

the haptic sense, emotional, subjective

what is different about the new minimalism?
touch

Ash and Rose

I am back at my town studio and it is wonderful.
Full of wool blankets, wool threads and the energy of sunlight.

Ash and Rose is on the design wall.

ash and smoke

 

 

my whole life is about the labour, but I want my work to seem magical

Judy Pfaff

canadian shield

 

 

my work is based on materiality,

the viewer then brings her direct experience
and understands my art not as an object outside self
but from something within his/her own self