{"id":4207,"date":"2017-12-13T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2017-12-13T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:45:10","slug":"considering-series-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=4207","title":{"rendered":"Considering Series Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to yet another question on working in a series, on which I have written\u00a0before<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0 I wrote a\u00a0 few comments on the Quiltart list this week, including:\u00a0 “I think it is important to write about each work. I don’t mean how you made it – those technical details aren’t the important part of a series. I mean writing your thoughts, ideas, inspirations, concerns, fears maybe – anything about your work, put onto paper, or into a digital visual or artist’s diary of some kind.\u00a0 This writing, in whatever form, is not for publication but for yourself; the act of thinking about why you are doing what you are doing is part of the series process.\u00a0 And when a meaningful artist statement is required, you have already done the groundwork!\u00a0I’ve occasionally had what I felt at the time were one-offs, and yet with some, hindsight, there are really only two that don’t fit in one of my series.\u00a0 But, even as I wrote that sentence, it occurred to me that those two almost forgotten works, made almost 20 years apart, have something strong in common… perhaps I need to think about that and write something about what links these two very different looking works…”<\/em><\/p>\n


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Life’s Rich Tapestry 2<\/em>,\u00a0 1990,\u00a0 160cm x 160cm<\/h5>\n

I can’t find anything I’ve written about this old quilt, although if you have a Visions 1992 catalogue handy you’ll find something in that –\u00a0 that artist statement would refer to the role of chance, in how our lives weave through highs and lows, as nothing stays the same for ever – we exercise skill navigating the swings and roundabouts, but there’s always temptation, the quirky hand of fate, the wheel of fortune, and so on – all these things are alluded to in the images on the quilt, which itself is a patchwork background of brights and darks signifying highs and lows.\u00a0 In many ways this\u00a0 contains the germ of the much later and still current ‘Ebb and Flow’ series.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Arbol de la Vida<\/em>,\u00a0 2008,\u00a0 approx 150cm x 100cm<\/h5>\n

This morning I went back through my blog posts (aka something like ‘artists diary’) and read here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>what I’d forgotten about this second quilt I called Arbol de la Vida<\/em>.\u00a0 It was a exhibited in some exhibition I was invited to take part in – I just don’t remember – and I didn’t write much about it at the time, perhaps I didn’t think it was important enough, I’m not sure.\u00a0 But I can tell you that in the preceding few months or weeks I had seen a fabulous exhibition of the ceramics of very important Uruguayan artist<\/span>\u00a0 Jose Gurvich<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0some of whose works can be seen today in a dedicated<\/span> <\/span>museum<\/span><\/a> in the old city on Plaza Matriz. I love his work<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0which is literally everywhere here.\u00a0 Note the Life theme, and the pictographic symbols on the leaves – I was definitely on that same hand of fate\/role of chance track 18 years later.<\/p>\n

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This morning I watched an interesting profile of Egyptian jewellery designer Azza Fahmy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0whose beautiful dramatic modern jewellery references her nationality and cultural history – she commented that while designing her Pharaonic collection over 10 years she was constantly combing through museums and archeological sites all around Egypt re-familiarising herself with all elements of ancient Egyptian decorative design that she was using as inspiration.\u00a0 It can take much time and thought to build a series!<\/p>\n

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I think it’s time to have a palm reading.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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