March 27, 2012
March 15, 2012
March 09, 2012
Japanese Pot Shards from Kauai
The pendants featured in my last post are being shown at the Muse Gallery in Longmont, opening tonight March 9, 6-9pm. EcoCreations 3 is an exhibit of art made from recycled and found materials, sponsored by Ecocycle. The show runs though April 21.
The shards are a part of Kauai's rich history of human immigration. The first signs of Japanese in Hawaii date back to shipwrecks in the 13th century. Sugar plantations were being established on Kauai near the end of the the 19th century. Grave sites near the Japanese Mana Camp on Kauai's west side still contain graves of men, women, children and whole families who died in the 1860's. Financial difficulties in Japan in these times encouraged emigration, Hawaii being an place for settlements.
Buddhist Shrines Lawai www.lawaicenter.org
The bits of pottery used for the pendants represent people who carried bowls of rice and cups of tea to the fields of an island being altered by human plantation agriculture.
This detritus works its way up through the soil of ranches and trails, telling of other activities long ago. While it is but a tiny shard of the story of the Garden Island, it offers memory of how humans have altered islands to suit their desires. The sugar plantations are mostly gone. Modern entrepreneur farmers grom coffee, chocolate, and kava. Some fields of cane and pineapples still produce. Much more aggressive growth is of hotels and condos for lucky visitors.
It is with respect that the pendants are made. If you happen to wear one, please honor the ancestors who used these vessels in daily life.
February 06, 2012
Shards of Japanese pottery from Kauai: wire wrapped pendants
Here's the collection completed this week.
With aventurine and handmade fiber beads. About 2" square. Sold.
With copper wire and hanging brass bird charm.
With seed beads.
With hanging silver spiral.
Made in Japan with glass bead tail. (Sold)
These are available at the Muse Gallery in Longmont, CO. Please email me at wynclute@gmail.com for more info.
December 27, 2011
Butterfly Greeting Cards: Multi-Media
Watercolor lessons and experiments produce plenty of colorful practice sheets. This season I have been creating butterflies for greeting cards. I paint a background onnto the cardstock. The butterflies and catipillars are cut from the practice watercolor sheets. The figures are mounted on vellum that is mounted on the card stock. The muted background set off the insects.
December 23, 2011
November 06, 2011
October 31, 2011
Who are the makers? From the DIY-ers to the fine artists, from the knitters to the robot-teers, contemporary creators of one of a kind, hands on goods in contemporary society! WE ARE THE MAKERS!
October 17, 2011
October 11, 2011
Finished for now
Just here to say that I came to Kauai to visit with Maggie. Now that I am here, I have the gift of time and mental space. I am very grateful for the quiet. I finished some work on an water color I started in January. The image is wildly flawed, in part because I lost the eye and color I was using when I started' but fair enough done to head for Waimea for views ans walking.
July 31, 2011
Nothing but fish...
where's the water???? See...I don't even think they are cute anymore. Time to return to June and make nomad pocket scarf wraps.
May 27, 2011
Images of Once and Always Perfect Spirits
This is a news interview with my lovely friends Teresa and Becky about Teresa's painting of the spirit of those who have died. Their story is so true and the presentation so beautiful. Please, don't be hesitant. Take a look. Link here. To connect with bereavement artists, who work in several styles to make memorials, link here.
April 04, 2011
Bwyneth Pocket Scarves
"The indispensable summer accessory..." A scarf, shawl, pocketed thing from colorful up-cycled fabrics. The wearable accessory to have on hand (that means in the car, or back pack) to comfort you when the evening chills, the sun burns, the wind, rios, or the air conditioning at work is freezing.
Sold yet? See Dolly displaying the comforts of the Bwyneth Pocket Scarf.
That Dolly may be a dummy, but she sure knows how to accessorize. Wasn't it Jackie K (pre-O) who described eternal good taste in dress as, "basic black and Bwyneth Pocket Scarf."
Maker as Model with the muslim of India print, winter 2011.
Need one, for wind, or rain, or fire(as an all purpose accessory for your fire evac to go bag?). Ask me or the illusive Bwyneth at www.bwyneth.com
March 01, 2011
February 22, 2011
Spring is in the Air: Bunnies by the Basket
These guys are multiplying like ... well, rabbits. Good to be using my doll making skills again!
Made in yummy angora/wool knits, they are soft as kittens.
February 17, 2011
February 08, 2011
Tiger Emerging
Born in the Year of the Rabbit, and what emerges from my paper but the predator...
there is the forever tension: the yin and the yang, the dinner and the diner.
How shall I, Rabbit, love thee, my ferosious devouring one? I am in awe of your grandeur, beauty, and huge compelling jaws.Prehaps the paint will carry my praise.
January 11, 2011
January 09, 2011
Living on What You Love To Do
This is so encouraging! "I'm Making A Living From My Hobbies" by Frank Hyman in the Sunday NYTimes. Frank lists arts, writing,gardening, and politics as the avocations that have sustained him for the last 18 years. And he says you have to try lots of different things to know what you like! Yes! And have an adequate budget for classes and books every year! Yes! And travel widely! Great! And have a wide tolerance for mistakes. I can do that.
So all I have to do is figure out the "making a living" bit! These days I am continuing with assorted fiber arts: knit, sew, layer fiber and paper; playing at encaustic wax multi-media pieces; learning to draw; starting a business with a friend using lots of recycled fibers to make wraps, mittens, oven mitts and pillows (Bwyneth Fiber Arts); and co-owning a co-operative shop and healing arts shop (Uniquely Natural in Lafayette, Colorado.) Wow!
So I am making a great life of avocations I love, even if it doesn't quite add up to a living!
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