Knocking on Heaven’s Door
I have been fortunate enough to teach a few times in Italy in a little hilltop town called Orvieto. We stayed in a 14th century convent which has been converted into a B&B complete with nuns and a childcare centre. It is a lovely place to stay and teach. The
Pandemic Peeps
Susan J Lapham May 2021 A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about how the pandemic has allowed us to have peeps into our fellow artists’ studios, however large or small, fancy or simple. For me, video conferencing has been a part of my work and school life
Change of perspective
Doerte-Ina Liebing We are thinking about and working with the prompt “Doors, openings and portals” during this two months. This themes are giving a lot of possibilities. You would think it is very comfortable. You might think that this makes it easy. But I think it’s not that easy when
Doors, Openings, and Portals
The final prompt for Cloth in Common’s round 2 is Doors, Openings, and Portals. If that’s not broad enough, I don’t know what is. These terms can take you from a means of access, to the 1960’s band The Doors, to video games of the 21st century. I hope everyone
Things fall apart
Shame is such a destructive thing, especially for young people and children, who may carry childhood shame into adulthood where it affects their lives, undermining their sense of self and their ability to succeed in relationships, in their work, in their self worth. This was a painful theme for me
Singled Out
This is a very personal piece for me although I hope it can stand in for many personal experiences people have. I am 6 feet 0.5 inches tall (or 184 cm), and that is fairly tall for a woman. From when I was a teenager, I stood out, whether I
Shame
Doerte-Ina Liebing Shame is an extremely social emotion because it reflects the rules and values of the society. Shame is a therefore very human feeling. Maybe you can say it is the strongest emotion of the world. I have dealt with the subject in a different context before. In fact, I
Shame 2017-2021
As I said in my previous post, I consider myself a proud, patriotic citizen of the United States of America, however I can also see that not everything the US does is worthy of being proud of. In fact, I’m ashamed of many of the policy stances my government has
Point Move
Susan J Lapham Vienna Virginia USA This prompt reminded me of the song Shame, Shame, Shame from the disco era nearly 50 years ago. See https://clothincommon.com/earworm/ for a bit of disco history and more about Shirley &Co.’s song. The song Shame, Shame, Shame reminded me of other popular disco songs