So its been a while since my last entry, but I've been busy! I had intended to develop a new body of work at the farm that would later travel to another venue(s) to broaden public awareness of all this place has to offer. I had planned to do this through photo, drawing and painting, however...well I had this dream.
Dreams are funny like that, they pop up while you are awake or asleep and this one made its first appearance in my waking hours, while at the farm. Then it kept recurring as if to say "get on it Vanessa" as I slept. It was a cool vision but something I thought to be a bit out of my realm. You see it was a large installation, horizontal bands of colour blowing in the wind across an open field. It was not all clear, rather blurred really, but hey, that's how I see (or don't see) when I'm in the zone deep in create mode.
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So I've taken on a new medium, involving fabric and sewing with a machine! Something I haven't done since grade school home-ech, my first and only real experience with a sewing machine - (project: pig with detachable velcro parts, really quite creepy when I look back on it now).

Fabric - the cheapest I could find by the yard and oh what a find
Machine - PFAFF 96, previously loved, one of those old metal clunkers

Seamstresses be ware, this is not about the stitch but the concept come to life.

Weave - work in progress



Getting the picture...