{"id":1161,"date":"2011-03-03T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2011-03-03T06:20:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:20:03","slug":"beachwork-finished-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Beachwork – Finished, Hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new work, tentatively titled " Beachwork" is now hanging in place. <\/p><\/div>\n

Although\u00a0 ‘Beachwork’ is now hanging in place (see previous post, below) this is a work that may always be considered unfinished, in\u00a0that I could do more with the surface if I feel inspired to add to it sometime.\u00a0 that feels Ok with me, since the beach itself is ever changing with every cycle of tidal action.\u00a0 But for now, it just felt time to stop – to keep it all relatively simple, although heavens knows I have plenty more of the raw hide thonging, the other threads and the little circle-wheel thingies.<\/p>\n

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The next step in detail added was to free machine embroider these areas of stitch suggesting coarser sand or other small bits and pieces which become trapped in some places between the ridges of sand.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Detail of the hand made needlelace motifs from an antique lace collar.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The little round motifs I scattered onto the surface of this work are hand made units snipped apart from an old lace collar I found on a market stall.\u00a0 On some of them I have cut away part of the circular rim.\u00a0 I bought the collar last year as\u00a0an interesting\u00a0example of hand made lace – but it is ruefully stained in places and washing with stuff that normally removs stains didn’t… so as I am not a lace wearing person myself, I felt mentally free to cut some of these motifs off to use in this work.\u00a0 I had to think about it for a while (all of 10 minutes) and you may not agree with the decisision I made to cut part of this object away, perhaps you see this cutting into something old, and ‘precious’\u00a0as sacrilege?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To me this is a recycling, and\u00a0maybe I always saw it as a potentially useful supply of something to use in my work – perhaps that is why I was drawn to it’s pattern and texture on the stall there.\u00a0 Anyway, no turning back now!\u00a0 and the collar is still 3\/4 intact … not that I’ll ever change my mind on this issue.<\/p>\n

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Rawhide thonging was either hand stitched , threaded beneath the couched thread, or through one of the circular motifs.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The whole work laid out flat on the grass, so that it can be seen in its entirety - not possible from where it hangs on the wall in its gently folded manner.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tentatively the work is titled’ Beachwork’ but this could change sometime, too, and if so, I’ll come in and add to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although\u00a0 ‘Beachwork’ is now hanging in place (see previous post, below) this is a work that may always be considered unfinished, in\u00a0that I could do more with the surface if I feel inspired to add to it sometime.\u00a0 that feels Ok with me, since the beach itself is ever changing with every cycle of tidal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-iJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}