Spirit Houses Glowing

These are part of a more complex project from Maternal Mitochondria to be disclosed later! But very excited these fairy or spirit houses are coming along.

A Family of Poetry Dresses

I’m deep into a rather unresolved process of putting text on textile, in this case clothes. I started off with seven pieces, and a working title something like “Synesthesia: 7 Days a Week.” I was looking at unfinished embroidery, and either adding stitches or words. Three of the pieces were garments, and they seem to have become their own set.

Actually, they are a kind of a family. The “mother” is a pink nightie I bought second hand.


I had the embroidery put on professionally, and although the embroiderer was terrific the old material was so worn it tore. We decided to leave that tear in, because it reflected the text, with its warning against assault or even rape.

Pink Gown

I said, more
than once
never
get in a car
with boys

I also realized today that the tear could be an image of breast-feeding, or nurturance. For there is the “baby” in an antique gown.

Child’s Gown
 
smell of milk
indoors
swollen womb
     of possibility
blue jug
outside
     grass dunes the sea

And finally, the child. This was done on a dress that was actually mine, circa early 1960’s.

Dress With Tags
 
I was like a package
going nowhere
a dress with tags
like decals
on a steamer trunk
but I
was never sent
 

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SO–here is the question. What should I do with these?
Make more?
Make a clothesline?
Leave as is?
Create additional but self-contained pieces?

AND–where should they go?
Gallery? (Such as?)
Textile Bomb? (How? Where?)

All advice appreciated.

Installation by Rina Banerjee at Sackler Museum

Green: Art by Marietta Patricia Leis and Poem by Miriam Sagan

Marietta Patricia Leis’s installation, inspired by a trip to Thailand, is up at the Las Cruces Museum of Art.
I saw it recently and was inspired to write a poem.

Verdant

in the honeycomb
of the eye
you stored up color

no one knows
the name of the plumed grasses
casting a shadow

my hand
in running water–
the dream’s transparency

this book, my mouth
sealed by time
turns to compost

empty chair
empty table
set for the wind

for green
will outlast the hills
because it is re-born

Star Midden at night on The Land

These images are from Leah Stravinsky’s glass installation, done on The Land/An Art Site itself–April, 2011

Kathleen McCloud at Axle Contempory

Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Contact: Matthew Chase-Daniel or Jerry Wellman
Telephone 505-670-5854 or 505-670-7612
E-mail: info@axleart.com

Kathleen McCloud
Futurology 101: Welcome to the Third Wave
Opening: Friday, March 18, 5-7 pm by the Farmer’s Market Building, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
Exhibition continues at diverse locations around Santa Fe through April 10th
Location and hours are updated daily at http://www.axleart.com
Exhibition in cooperation with Ernesto Mayans Gallery

Futurology 101: Welcome to the Third Wave work in progress: McCloud studio views

Life is moving so fast you’re already a relic of the future. This site-specific installation at Axle Contemporary mobile gallery looks to the insights of the Futurist writers of the late 20th century, particularly the ideas presented by Alvin Toffler, who referred to the technology/information age as ‘the Third Wave’. How do we navigate the sea change, what will fall away, what will be transformed, and what to do when big waves converge?

Of her installation, McCloud writes:

“It’s my first “exhificition” on new media culture. The project started as a reflection on my evolving relationship with social media and sense that intuition, imagination and willingness to risk are key to navigating the complex ‘global village’. Hindsight is 20/20 but foresight is visionary- that’s why I went back to the Futurists for insight.“

In this installation McCloud includes elements of sculpture, painting, text and sound.

Futurology 101: Welcome to the Third Wave
work in progress: McCloud studio view

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Kathleen adds: This site-specific installation at Axle Contemporary mobile gallery looks to the insights of the Futurist writers of the late 20th century, particularly the ideas presented by Alvin Toffler, who referred to the technology/information age as ‘the Third Wave’. I’ve taken to the wave metaphor- it speaks to my sense of being swept away by forces that are moving fast and all I need to do is relax and be moved- and remember, ”don’t panic”, the words of my grandparents on my first trip to Rye Beach. The project started as a reflection on my evolving relationship with social media and sense that intuition, imagination and willingness to risk are key to navigating the complex choices in the ‘global village’. Hindsight’s 20/20 but foresight’s visionary, hence my decision to go back to the Futurists- Toffler and McLujan- for insight. How do we navigate the sea change, what will fall away, what will be transformed, and what to do when big waves converge. I’m calling this an ‘exhificition’ because it combines my experience in writing and producing commentary for museum exhibitions based on cultural artifacts and my art making- I get to make the objects and tell the story- part-fact part -fiction.

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