I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My Skin
I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My Skin, 2022Wire, beeswax, wool, organics I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My Skin explores the role of rest, care, and play in sustaining…
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I Know This Forest Like the Back of My Hand
I Know This Forest Like the Back of My HandVideo of hand spun wool and cotton weaving with layered lettering. 2022 Day 1: Fresh white and cream contrasted to the…
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I Can Feel This Time Etched Into My Bones
I Can Feel This Time Etched Into My BonesWire, beeswax, cotton, paper2022
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Encroaching Columella
Sometimes it all just takes a really really really long time. And it’s worth it, but it might not seem like it’s worth it while you’re doing it. At times,…
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Facia Knots
Facia KnotsCotton and Silk Organza (dyed with onion skins) printed with rose petal pigment made by Francesca Carella Arfinengo
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Yarn Organs
Part of my creative practice uses objects that other people hold on to that make them sad or unhappy-and create work based on their experiences. The objects I’m working with…
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Paper Knitting, Wire Skull
I feel like I’m starting to defrost after so much time with myself during quarantine. It started out with me bursting with tense energy. I had just come down from…
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Maps of Transition
Are our personalities just a collection of our routines? Are our personalities ingrained? Do we perform them? We could find little bits and pieces in other people and sew them…
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Growing Forms, Free Standing
Growing Forms Fuzzy and Prickly, Smooth and rough, soft and hard, air and earth. Cacti and plants living in pots with decorative yarn outsides, soft and prickly, smooth and fuzzy.…
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Growing Forms: Hanging
Growing Forms Fuzzy and Prickly, Smooth and rough, soft and hard, air and earth. Cacti living in textile and soil pods, watered through the permeable layer of crochet wool containing…
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It Washes Through
We have routines and rhythms to our lives that are affected by our upbringing, our jobs, our partners and friends, our health. These rhythms can help us to grow and…
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Change is Inevitable, Tides are Inevitable: Making It Washes Through
You can’t control how events will change you, just that events will change you. I’ve been making work about grief, trauma and closure, but really I’ve been making work about…
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Calm
I’m sorry I didn’t check in enough when it happened. I was still learning to support people. How do you record the weight a person has on a life, and…
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Words Cut to Slivers, Soften.
It all began with a journal. Or two journals, to be more exact. It all starts with minimalism. I love the idea of minimalism and letting go of the things…
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It Washes Over
It Washes Over explores experiences through the objects we hold onto, and how the experiences they represent change us. Using donated items of significance that carry memories, grief, and trauma, I…
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Loving You Hurt More, A Process in a Process
I made this piece a full year ago and still haven’t published this post. It has been sitting in my draft folder, sometimes with writing in it, and sometimes without.…
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Dedicated to
I have had this book for my Heartbreak Objects series for a long time. It was the first donated object I had received, and it was a heavy one. In…
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The Process of Closure
I work with objects that break people’s hearts but that they’ve held onto because of sentimental value. I take them apart and transforming them into something new that represents their…
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Heartbreak Object: Wedding Bands
We like to pretend we can have a person forever. We are fallible creatures who grow and change, and eventually cease to exist. I was given these wedding bands as…
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Heartbreak Object: Taboos, then, have an all-encompassing quality
I was donated the book Anal Pleasure and Health by Jack Morin as part of my project An Investigation of Heartbreak and Grief. The owner of the book met me for…
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Heartbreak Objects: Tokens From a Past Place
I received a big box in the mail. Part of an office chair box covered in duct tape. Inside was a stuffed animal, a beeswax candle, a David Bowie Ziggy…
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Love Isn’t About Becoming, it is Being
Carlene Kurdziel donated a pair of snow boots to my heartbreak project. It was my first donated object, and a doozie. The glue that holds snowboard boots together is pervasive, and…
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Roughness, Softness
Do you ever have an overwhelming desire to run your hands over uneven surfaces to experience what it feels like? There is something about roughness- we are accustomed to the…
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Sad Journals, New Form
I’ve been working on a new use for my (sad) journals. They feel too special to throw out but I don’t want them sitting on my shelf. I found a…
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The Wool Fish- Rainbow Trout Music Festival, St Malo MB
‘The Wool Fish’ at Rainbow Trout Music Festival, St Malo MB. This interactive textile piece was built under a canopy with a pully system. Participants could pull on any of…
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Social Climates
What a busy winter I’ve had making work. There is a stressful social climate happening right now, with elections (Canadian Federal Election this fall and the US Presidential Race happening…
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Stretch Marks: I Look Like I’ve Been Mauled by a Bear
Cotton Thread on Lycra Body Suit, shown in “Best” at the C2 Centre for Craft
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Photodegrade
Photodegrade Hand Spun Wool, linen, plastic bags dyed in indigo 18″ x33″ 2015 As the plastic bags in this piece photo degrade, it reveals the structure underneath.
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Movement Series
Movement 1, Wool and Linen. 2014 Movement 2, Wool and Linen. 2014 Movement 3, Wool and Linen. 2014 Body Movement: Three sets of puppets that are animated when the wearer…
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Bigger Puppet
Fabric Puppet Linen and Hand Spun Wool Yarn Made with tablet weaving Photos by Becky Gartner
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A Puppet
Fabric Puppet Linen and Cotton Made with Tablet Weaving Photos by Becky Gartner
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Katrina Craig 