ABOUT THIS BLOG: Fresh Beginnings

I looked around for the right page and this looks like the easiest most to-the-pointest.

I wanted to keep a little track of what was going on in terms of the exciting developemnts of growing a little art business. Maybe it will provide insight to others. Maybe I will just look back and say: “Hey-it was a blur! So that’s how it happened!?!”

Some backlogue: I started my little business a year and a half ago, giving it the all-encompassing name of “InkOperated” so it would never get off-topic. I’m a painter, sculptor and performance artist and it was time to find a vehicle for rent-paying and world-seeing. I had many friends who had been involved with the Street Artist Program in San Francisco, so it was a familiar place to start and has been a wonderful Capitalism 101 primer. After 3 months of selling wacky costumery to a mostly amused but resolutely unbuying public, I discovered felt. It was a dream come true. Something ancient and steeped in mythology, a technique that is crafted by hand that harms nothing and has amazing properties common to no other natural material. An exquisitely rich color pallette and endless sculptural possibilities. Finally-something that tied it all together! Ah-necessity, the mother of invention!

I taught myself to work with it. I think it is the first thing I ever taught myself and I’m truly proud of it. It is also nice to have something that one is discovering without the uneccessary noise of a teacher’s inherited attitudes or expectations. So-we have to see what this stuff can do!

What I enjoy most is the wearable aspect of the work. It has taken the past year to find a certain voice, that is rewarding creatively and that people respond to. It is an exciting medium which is starting to gain momentum and is a medium accessible to anyone with a kitchen table, some soap and a sink. This is where it starts-when you have to build an addition onto your house for all the wool roving that’s piling up. While you’re at it, it wouldn’t hurt to add a fully tiled outdoor felting studio, a traditional Kahsak yurt in the backyard for summer felting, and a motley flock of wooly friends Just remember that there are worse things in life.

Felting Link of the day:

KC LOWE

http://www.kclowe.com/

This lady rocks! Her work floored me. I think she’s out of Alaska.