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my smart phone and the mundane paperwork constantly screaming for my attention i did get some unix commands printed and soon to be laminated in preparation for a new contract i have secured for my day job the unyielding heat 102f seems to twist and contort my willingness to execute and complete my to do list all i managed to that is remotely related to creativity is organize my collection of sketchbooks and toy with the idea of pitching them the rest of my day was spent cooking stir fried chicken veggies and lo mien noodles with black bean garlic paste and a nice dessert made of georgia peaches black berries and pound cake and la t dolled it with whipped cream here is what is left there is always hope that tomorrow i will succeed with productive studio time posted in fiber art 1 comment made to create june 23 2012 here is an exert from a commencement given at biola universit y commencement address for undergraduates 2012 by makoto fujimura we serve a creator god and this creator created us to also be creative in the same way that god gave adam the authority to name the animals in genesis 2 god invites his children to co create within god s parameters we cannot create ex nihilo but we are all artists with a small a and we are asked to work through our brokenness and fears we are created for love and love is creative so what would happen if every single person who follows this creator asked the same question what do i want to create and further if we became an ambassador to the world to help ask what do you want to create and how can i help you what if we answered this question filled with the creative holy spirit of god every moment that we are awake and helped others to do the same would we have a world more beautiful compassionate caring and daring would we see our occupations differently would we see our universities differently would we see our motherhood our fatherhood our brotherhood and sisterhood differently makoto fujimura makoto fujimura studio 38 west 39th st new york ny 10022 ummmm so what am i going to create today how can i make it a more beautiful blue globe by my little creations after my last posting i feel i want to get into my car and run over my smart phone so that it will stop dictating my life can i do it yes if i want to rapidly become homeless for a less violent alternative turning it off i head to the studio posted in creative htc amaze 4 g 1 comment tags creating making the world better creative financing art projects june 21 2012 hello all today s post march 27th is not about felting but a good friend in his endeavor as a fine artist it is best to just post a link instead of me translating his vision and work darin white sorry darin for the delay nonetheless i was excited to see the brooklyn show was a great success thus congrats are in order what is next i found this posting in my draft basket my blogging hit an all time low in the late winter and i am dragging to regain the momentum i once had i have been having fun with my adult son and ignoring any ideas and aspirations to create i cannot begin to explain how difficult it is to switch between the left hand brain activity of my day job and the vibrant creative right brain activity and energy in my studio excuses aside i stand empty handed projects unfinished and allowing the technology of my smart phone to suck the life out of me i have shamelessly admitted the admiration of the smart phone developers is high i can now draw on my phone in color and digitally record it it takes me back to 1994 when i discovered the personal computers and the internet when i attended university in durham england i met a nice chap with whom i interacted for a few years even after my return to the usa years decades flew past me i decided to put this internet thing to the test i set out on a quest to find this chap the internet was not that refined cataloged or databases had crude inter connectivity in 1995 even though it only took four seconds to send an email to australia my search took four months and resulted in a phone call in tasmania shocked to hear each others voice it was not brain surgery to conclude that this internet thing was not only useful but here to stay i was not terribly successful convincing other artists that putting their artwork on the net would give world wide expose of course all those artist now have fancy websites and i do not when the us science foundation was the sole distributor of domain names i had registered several in 1994 before there was a cost and my foresight provided a nice profit when i sold them to various firms anyway i tried to integrate the digital world and my creativity which never clicked for me i am not a graphic artist and was not terribly interested becoming one i missed the other input of my senses the smell of the paint and the feel of a lovely brush in dipping into paint and applying to a surface there is an inner pleasure when paint is applied to various surfaces whether it is smooth and slick like a bristol paper or rough watercolor paper the fragrance of indigo oxygenation when fabric is pulled from a vat or mono gum when applied to fabric for a dyeing resists now the smell of wet wool is unmatched posted in digital cameras uses direct dye application felting fiber art mixed media painted furniture painting with nail polish sun prints textiles thiox wool fiber artist leave a comment tags art work digital verses paint mixed media smart phones saving the shards june 18 2012 i have collected hand blown glass balls for 20 years i received many as gifts and some i collected as souvenirs of the places i have visited i found these swirls of light simply lovely creations and displayed them in a window as seen in photo one day about a decade ago i heard a loud crashing noise in my bathtub and my cat was so intimidated by the noise she darted to the basement she must have been enticed to play with these items of eye candy i am grateful that my cat was not injured as she had to be in the bathtub and in the windowsill nostalgia kept me from throwing the broken glass away the shards have been stored in this vase since with the hope of finding a creative way to use the glass i still have not uncovered a solution but thought of photographing the remains an urn for broken glass balls posted in blown glass glass balls glass delights leave a comment tags hand blown glass oranaments android june 18 2012 for those longing for the old scratched photos of yesteryear tired of all the crisp digital photos that every tom dick and harry are taking with their iphones i found an app on google play that converts my 10 mega pixel camera phone into one inspired by the bärbl an east german classic naturally faded with a scratched film and medium vignetting the perfect all round choice this might be the kicker that gets my mojo back i have been rambling around in nowhere creative land for about seven months i just have had no inspiration to create anything interesting i am using a 4 g phone by htc called amaze it has been a delightful tool for my day job perfecting documenting barcodes or captures the wiring on a 66 block i have used it as a bubble level a cam scanner where i can scan documents on the spot and even get the degrees within a given angle not to mention documenting the scheme in data centers thus i am charged to use this phone camera thing for some creative messy bedroom posted in htc amaze 4 g leave a comment tags androids barbl classic camera retro camera art spaces may 31 2012 i cleaned my studio spotlessly and meticulously making it a usable food consumption kitchen once again my new tenant aka boomerang son has taken up residency in the apartment on the lower level of my home where partially my studio resides it is split into rooms with doors and a dedicated lavatory but a large section serves as my studio because it has a functioning kitchen and refrigerator used for felting and dying the son and i are in process of arrangements so i can have access to my print table what is a print table you ask just as the name suggest but homemade i used a four feet by eight feet sheet of wood covered with ½ inch of carpet wool padding no longer manufactured which is tightly snuggled into place with a unbleached canvas secured underneath with a gazillion stables and it rest on portable legs i constructed this table when i was in school so i could work on screening printing wall blankets at home without taking my son from precious sleep he had a locker at the school studio crowded with roller skates various toys sleeping bags pillows stuffed animals and his favorite yummy snacks however did not have a quite space to sleep during my late night creative hours i constructed a section where i could stretch fabric and anchor it to a taunt surface it is similar to stretching a canvas onto a stretcher frame except instead staples i used stainless steel t pins so the applied wet paint or dye would not shrink the canvas when air dried the table has been the single most useful tool i have ever created seen the most work activity and it has served me well since i religiously covered the base with a tightly woven canvas drop cloth the table is virtually pristine with exception to a few dyeing jobs that meandered or bled though to the base layer yes 24 years of various art projects interlaced with tutoring sessions and a sprinkling art instruction classes have all used this print table in diverse avenues i covered this cloth table with plastic when i make felt projects though i would love to have stainless steel i use the print table for dyeing and sewing projects therefore to loose access is creatively crippling and i have yet to resolve it posted in acid dyes direct dye application discharge dyeing dry felting dyeing felting textiles leave a comment tags art print tables art spaces creative table space dyeing table place to create second hand fabrics may 30 2012 oh nicola is now speaking my language second hand stores i openly admit as a true artist that i have rescued items with a bit of dumpster diving which ended up being excessively valuable when i first time visit a town i do not head for the tourist attractions but i scan the environment for junk stores i found a little fabric store many years ago along the side of the road not unlike a fruit stand it was near a quaint town population just under 200 the store was crammed pack with 100 natural fabrics that were end roll or bolt ends i found delicate cottons silks alongside heavy duty sailcloth oh i had so much fun dying those fabrics and i still have a few left in my stash sadly the store was torn down in lieu for a convenience store i read an article in the ny times that the cotton industry has discovered a way to intermingled nano millimeter i forget the actual weight but it was microscopic of synthetic to reduce shrinkage yet the amount is so small it is still legally label it 100 cotton this explains why newer items such as tee shirts and linens will not dye properly with procion dyes yes i have taught classes on beach towel dyeing using a kiddie swimming pool have you ever wondered by some 100 cotton tee shirt seems to be hot or slightly itchy this small percentage of non natural fiber keeps the fiber from breathing or allowing the air to freely flow through the garment the only true test is doing a burn test which i found this one of the most useful tools i learned at art school for a final test in this class i was presented a pile of samples and required to identify the contents by burning them a small sliver is fibers held of course with tweezers or tongs set a flame with a match various fibers will have a different burn rate odor and a distinctive ash or rubbish result i have worked with textiles for over forty years and yet garments or unmarked fabrics have deceived me especially some with the distinct feel of silk when tested will burn into a hard uncrushable black ball and smell foreign silk will scent of burned hair and crush into ashes plant fibers have the odor of paper burning while all animal protein wool silk leather have the smell of when you get too close to an open flame and your eyelashes get singed the stench of burning hair it is a fascinating to me after i wrote this i discovered there are several web sites with the various test results posted in acid dyes direct dye application dyeing wool with acid dyes fiber art pro chemical procion dyes pure pigments leave a comment tags burn test dyeing fabrics how to test fabric contents old fabrics second hand fabrics unmarked fabrics stitching march 17 2012 felt is not popular where i currently live and i attribute it to the weather we experience all four season and with tremendous gusto and today is no exception our little town of 100k population will celebrate st patty s day with a parade in a few hours so i spent the morning perusing blogs and stumbled across many that revolved stitching some hand and many machine all which were inspiring stitching is one of my longest and most love form of creative endeavors i have always been intrigued by hand stitched books embroidered cloth and a friend of mine in portland oregon stitches paper kristen miller perhaps i can escape my current creativity funk by re exploring stitching onto felt i have nothing to share with you except the flowers from my spring garden posted in fiber art leave a comment tags felt spring in kansas stitching quilted furniture march 13 2012 http www craftcouncil org magazine article piecework posted in fiber art 2 comments cards march 12 2012 i was attending a birthday celebration yesterday and could not find my stash of greeting cards i found a lonely one amongst my felting flat pieces and how i wished i would have documented it with a photograph i assume my stash has dwindled or they are just hidden in a crany of my home so time to crank into gear for a new style i made my first professional card in 1992 i usually do a set of cards about 10 12 at a time each group is entirely different some time they are assemblages some collages some painted some with hand made paper i constructed what is most satidifying is to visit friends and family and see they have taken a greeting card that i sent meant as moment of visual pleasure and they have framed the card and it is handing in their home the most unique was a stylized set of hearts painted with fingernail polish that was swirled with a metal stylus to resemble marbled papers the nail polish was old so it was not until days later that i discovered it would not try to its hardened enamel finish but remained ever so lightly tacky but these two dried nicely these are 4 x 6 inches one group i especially loved was made of torn japanese washi paper which i hand dyed then torn into pieces hand dying paper is a more gratifying experience especially if the paper is cotton on washi which is made from mulberry root it lends a nice soft edge when torn i did a series of handmade paper 20 years ago and i embedded threa...