Alone Together
Guest Artist, Paula Kovarik Though I am most content when isolated within my studio, I reserve time for connections that are vital for my well being. Almost every Friday evening for the past 15 years my family joined for dinner. We called it family night. On any given Friday we
Geographical Isolation
Growing up and living in Germany for the first decades of my life, I was living in the centre of Europe, in a densely populated area. We were just a few hours by car from Amsterdam or Paris. We didn’t think anything of going by bus or train to destinations
Coming SOON!
We are excited to be trying out something new this round. For our Isolation prompt, which was given on October 1st, each member of Cloth in Common has reached out and invited a guest artist to join us! This means that at the end of November, we will be revealing
Not so isolated?
by Martha Ressler When I heard the prompt “Isolation” what first came to mind was some of the photographs of Jay Ressler, my husband. I thought about using one of those and playing with it. What also came to mind was ways of beating back isolation. I am fascinated by
Isolation
The next prompt for Cloth in Common is Isolation and it couldn’t be more relevant. For our prompt of Masks I made a quilt called ‘Behind Closed Doors‘ reflecting my concerns that people often wear invisible masks hiding their true characters. You never know what goes on behind closed doors
On Being Isolated
Karol Kusmaul Thursdays are my favorite days. My husband goes golfing and I get to do whatever I want (or need) to do, without any interruptions except for the phone. No offense to my dear husband, but when he’s around, I get interrupted a LOT. I am in charge of
Wabi and Sabi
October 13.2020 Mikiko Takase Wabi and Sabi are words to describe a Japanese aesthetic sensibility that shows “beauty within simplicity and imperfection”. Wabi-Sabi influences all Japanese culture such as paintings, buildings, gardens and tea ceremony. For example, we may deliberately remove some constituents from a completed work to increase the
Darwin’s finches
An attempt to look at “isolation” from a different perspective… If an original population is separated into two sub-populations through geographical isolation so that no more gene flow can take place, we speak of allopatric speciation. The gene pools of the two subpopulations now develop differently, since different environmental factors
Local Newspaper
The prompt was media. This one was difficult for me. Too few ideas, too many ideas, in a creative funk? I’m not sure the reason. Did I get the idea of creating a local newspaper while visiting my parents and reading their weekly, ultra-local newspaper The Grapevine? Or is it
Then till Now
The prompt of media and how it related to my travels last year prompted me to think about my parents doing a similar journey back in 1968 and 1970. Back then everything was written on paper, their air tickets, hotel bookings, planned itinerary and travellers cheques for their money. How