940 x 940 mm
THE ART AND CRAFT OF ART AND CRAFT
Sensitivity:
When five senses aren’t enough, use your sense of heart
Creativity:
For every ounce of talent, there’s a ton of excuses
Productivity:
Don’t talk about it, do it – Every day ‘til the lights go out
Visibility:
Take an even closer look and exercise your eyes
First a dirty gin martini, then a glass of deep red wine
Puts the me back into meaning and the magic in sublime.
Disappointments and frustrations, some small triumphs on the way;
Very little is remembered, smell ye roses whilst ye may …
Once again, more wool to use up, hence the geometric configuration in the central square of the design and as an attempted joke, I added a colour code such as those found on the selvedges of bolts of fabric.
Since making this, I’ve been to the 2006 exhibition entitled MODERNISM arranged by the Victoria and Albert Museum and I feel that I must have either seen or been aware of that sort of authoritarian art of the nineteen twenties, thirties, forties and fifties where a single word conveyed all the necessary imagery in information to push an audience’s buttons.
I wanted this piece to challenge all those people who have crossed my path who have voiced variations on the: “Oh, I could never do that …” or “I started one once, but I got bored…” and a perennial favourite of mine, “There’s a man I’ve seen at my church who does that …”
I am amazed and often dispirited by how easily the majority of the human race gives up and how very seldom we examine and analyse our reflections in the mirror of truth. And I wonder if the woman who has seen the man at her church who does needlepoint has ever talked to him. Or asked him to lunch.
Panel made up by Yours and His Truly.
SOLD
David Evans