{"id":854,"date":"2010-02-15T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2010-02-15T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:51:16","slug":"early-work-very-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Early Work, Very Early …"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last,\u00a0thumbs, full views and\u00a0some detailsare in a newly added gallery\u00a0 on my website<\/em> <\/span>– at the top of the drop down gallery menu, The Creative Stitch: pre 1988\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>One<\/span> example:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\""Beachscape"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When I began my blog almost 5 years ago now,\u00a0 I had in mind something different from what it has morphed into.\u00a0 My blog <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
has\u00a0become\u00a0an important part of my life as a visual diary; and also that since it\u00a0was integrated with the website a while back now (thanks<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0Gloria) it has enhanced it’s role as a running sidebar to my website as I’ve made regular additions to both, becoming more deeply linked <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
than when they were separate.\u00a0\u00a0 Blogs mean different things to different people – just last week someone emailed me to say\u00a0 what I wrote<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
that day was all very well but if I\u00a0added videos (colour and movement !)\u00a0 the post\u00a0would have been more entertaining !\u00a0 Well, she can<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
google around if she wants, but time is pressing and\u00a0I know many of my readers are very busy\u00a0and focused people, some with demanding creative lives of their own.\u00a0 If they’re anything like me they spend\u00a0too much\u00a0time in front of their screens and need to limit that \u00a0;-p\u00a0\u00a0This is\u00a0the only kind of journally thing\u00a0I keep – with the bonus that all of you can share it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I periodically think\u00a0about my earlier work – and how it might not have had such a definite sort of cut off point,\u00a01987,\u00a0if we had not\u00a0 been suddenly moved from Kalgoorlie WA to Denver CO within 3 months of my solo exhibition “Sunburnt Textures” , of which all the works pictured on the new gallery were part.\u00a0 What I have done is all part of a progression along a path – “my journey” – I hate how that expression is bandied about by people with creative and artistic pretensions, \u00a0but there we are – I have used it, for just this once.\u00a0 You won’t read it from me again, in any of my statements.\u00a0\u00a0 At this point I am assuming the reader will click the link to the gallery and leave this page for a minute to return and read on…\u00a0 And when I do look at this body of work, the comments of several people at the opening night still ring in my ears:\u00a0 one eminent craftsman in attendance said something like “..and YOU did\u00a0ALL these works?”\u00a0 <\/em><\/span>which I realised with hindsight later, \u00a0you can take two ways – did he mean I hadn’t yet found my voice (another hackneyed phrase, sorry)\u00a0 perhaps, rather than as I heard it at the time, omg, this person is sooo talented and versatile !!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0(2) the second comment, from my\u00a0 thread supplier, “I’d love to see you work so much larger – big – really big…”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 While I am certain both of these people inflouenced me, I haven’t seen either of them again.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
So looking back, I can say:\u00a0\u00a0Nearly 30 years ago I was absorbed with textures of the earth’s surface and representing these in stitch.\u00a0 Then came man-made markings and patterns (Ancient Expressions), different environments (Colour Memories)\u00a0 and processes of natural forces\u00a0which caused the large shapes to appear, and\u00a0now I am particularly interested in the activity on surfaces plus the lapse of time\u00a0and possible\u00a0decay(Timetracks).\u00a0 Where is this to take me I wonder…. Life has had ups and downs, just as seasons and processes do\u00a0( Ebb&Flow)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I’ll let you know if I get off this path and onto something totally different!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if the spacing in this post has come out all funny –\u00a0I don’t know what I have done backing and forthing with the editing,\u00a0 but that’s it for now –\u00a0 just be tolerant or a little\u00a0entertained a little by it, I’m off to make some more samples.\u00a0 cheers….\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At last,\u00a0thumbs, full views and\u00a0some detailsare in a newly added gallery\u00a0 on my website – at the top of the drop down gallery menu, The Creative Stitch: pre 1988\u00a0\u00a0One example:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I began my blog almost 5 years ago now,\u00a0 I had in mind something different from what it has morphed into.\u00a0 […]<\/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-854","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-dM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}