Category: retirement
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Closing of the Year
I have been using a butterfly as a personal motif for a long time – since my first (and last) solo art gallery exhibit in oh, 1983? The butterfly is a powerful symbol of change, metamorphosis, growth. 2019 has been a very powerful year of…change, metamorphosis and growth for me. Between closing the business of…
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Day of Rest
beginning… By the time you get to this point, most of the ‘work’ has been done and what is left is the ‘fun’ bit. Today I am going to wind two warps and attempt to dress the Megado with a warp wound on a warping board instead of sectionally beaming it. I would do this…
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Lessons Learned
It’s been four months since I got started weaving on the Megado and all I have managed is four warps. Not my usual level of productivity – at all. But Life Happened – I was sick, not feeling well, had shows to prepare for and when I did feel able to weave, I was on…
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Blue Collar
When I was a kid, photos were important to mom. Appearances were also important. Dad was a blue collar worker. Well, green was his preferred colour, a lot like this: His standard work ‘uniform’ was a shirt and pants in a dark blue/green. He never wore blue or black, just always the dark blue/green. Always. …
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Progress, One Bin at a Time
Today Doug and his helper carried 14 bins and a box down to the studio and set them up on a saw horse table so that I could work on sorting and condensing them. The bins and box are filled with miscellaneous stuff I’ve been ignoring – sometimes for decades. Several bins of bobbin lace…
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Ch-ch-ch-changes (studio update)
Change one thing and everything can change. Earlier this year I decommissioned the AVL Production Dobby Loom I had woven on since 1982. For nearly 40 years it was my tool of choice for most things. I was trying to earn an income from selling my woven goods and it was a production loom that…
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Ch-ch-ch-changes (studio update)
Change one thing and everything can change. Earlier this year I decommissioned the AVL Production Dobby Loom I had woven on since 1982. For nearly 40 years it was my tool of choice for most things. I was trying to earn an income from selling my woven goods and it was a production loom that…
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Sprouting
When I began telling people that I was going to ‘retire’ and close down my business, the question would be asked – what would I do? The short answer was – I don’t know. I knew I would keep weaving, just not production weaving. I knew I would write – for this blog, if nothing…
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Transitions
Four decades of cultivating a particular mindset means there is a fairly lengthy re-thinking involved as I transition to…whatever comes next. A new tool requires new processes. New processes mean that things go more slowly, more carefully, more methodically, as new neurons are created, new pathways burned into the old way of doing things. There…