{"id":2696,"date":"2014-03-08T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2014-03-08T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T22:34:15","slug":"it-can-take-a-while-for-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"It Can Take A While For An Idea &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some years\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve had on my pin board\u00a0a little cutting\u00a0of a full and detail view of a\u00a0tapestry weaving by Scottish textile artist<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a title=\"Sara Brennan bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caa.org.uk\/exhibitions\/archive\/2010\/collect\/sara-brennan\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Sara Brennan<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The image was for an ad in a magazine for a solo show at The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Lines are important to me, as in &#8216;lines=seams&#8217;.\u00a0 The importance of line in\u00a0Sara Brennan&#8217;s\u00a0landscape inspired work is\u00a0because of\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;the meetings (that) occur around a horizon&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Who knows why didn&#8217;t I research her work when I first found this picture, but I never took the little pic down, because it felt important for me to leave it there.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0This morning, while\u00a0doing something totally different I suddenly realized\u00a0if I fused some sheer fabric over a seam it could have a slightly similar effect, with a lot of potential &#8211; and so I put together this little\u00a0a<em>ide memoire <\/em>of\u00a0a sewn seam with sheer overlay,\u00a0with the snippet from the\u00a0pin board on the\u00a0cream part of the photo.<em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>How\u00a0interesting that it has taken me all this time of occasionally glancing\u00a0at that little pic to finally have a little light bulb\u00a0switch on!.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2699\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2699\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2699\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2699\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sara-Brennas-horizon-work-blog.jpg?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1394209625&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sara Brenna&amp;#8217;s horizon work blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sara-Brennas-horizon-work-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sara-Brennas-horizon-work-blog.jpg?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2699\" alt=\"Sara Brenna's horizon work blog\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sara-Brennas-horizon-work-blog.jpg?resize=450%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sara-Brennas-horizon-work-blog.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sara-Brennas-horizon-work-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the name of the piece above, or the one\u00a0below.\u00a0 When\u00a0searching around for writing on her work I found very little, really, which is a bit disappointing.\u00a0 But at least you can see\u00a0more images of this beautiful, evocative work\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a title=\"Sara Brennan horizon series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=sara+brennan+scottish+tapestry+weaver&amp;rlz=1T4ADRA_enUY476UY476&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=IyYbU7fXHY7qkAei9oHwAg&amp;ved=0CEkQsAQ&amp;biw=1152&amp;bih=558&amp;dpr=1.25\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2698\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2698\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2698\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2698\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sara-brennan-weaver-horizons-series.png?fit=217%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"217,232\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sara brennan weaver &amp;#8211; horizons series\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sara-brennan-weaver-horizons-series.png?fit=217%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sara-brennan-weaver-horizons-series.png?fit=217%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2698\" alt=\"sara brennan weaver - horizons series\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sara-brennan-weaver-horizons-series.png?resize=217%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"217\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wool tapestry weaving\u00a0from Sara Brennan.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m a fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve had on my pin board\u00a0a little cutting\u00a0of a full and detail view of a\u00a0tapestry weaving by Scottish textile artist Sara Brennan\u00a0\u00a0 The image was for an ad in a magazine for a solo show at The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, 2006. Lines are important to me, as in &#8216;lines=seams&#8217;.\u00a0 The importance of line [&hellip;]<\/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":[295,293],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-inspiration","tag-landscape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-Hu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}