Colour Blind
At the time I was making this piece I was pondering the very real disability of colour blindness, which is present in some of the males in our family. The piece began life as an blue Ikea upholstery fabric and a bottle of Clorox bleach. It was the strange year
Color is about Perception
My fascination with color led me to Bauhaus designer and artist Josef Albers. He experimented extensively with the interactions of color and how the perception of them can change it. Scientists know, people perceive color differently and it changes from one person to the next. Many will remember the controversy
Colour Blindness
Colour blindness runs in our family My father was not colour blind Though my brother is, but not his son. Just one of my two sons has it, and both of my sisters’ boys have it, one more pronounced than the other. Looking at the chart below it seems both
Kintsugi
Kintsugi is a traditional technique that has been around since the Muromachi period in Japan. It is a technique to repair cracked or chipped pottery using lacquer and metal powder. Nowadays, “Kintsugi” is attracting attention not only in Japan but overseas. It’s not only repair broken vessels by gluing them
Connections
Around the same time as Martha’s Prompt was revealed early last month, I finished reading an interesting book, about the times we live in. “Ways of Being. Animals, Plants, Machines: The search for a Planetary Intelligence.” by James Bridle. Science is discovering, how, the more we look, the more we
Climate change
Hi Quilt Artists, here’s my announcement for the new prompt. It’s Climate Change. The major floods in Pakistan right now are the direct result of climate change. Global warming has serious consequences for us. We regularly see forest fires, heat waves, extreme drought or heavy rainfall. We need major structural changes to
Ocean Warming
Summer in Japan gets hotter year by year. The typhoon that came after that was stronger than ever. As a result, many part of Japan suffered great damage. And now it’s supposed to be cool autumn, but it’s still hot. However , “saury” is an autumn fish that we are
Tina Williams Brewer, Guest. “Out of Troubled Waters Comes Bliss.”
Self-isolation forced a redefining of expectations.
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