Working Through the New Gabrielle

Things are going along well in the studio. However, there is no sewing being done...but what fun to be designing new works. My "big plan" is to design as many pieces as I can....until I get sick of the process and need to sew. Today I finished one design completely, have another ready to fine tune and another to enlarge with my overhead. For a hand applique, hand quilt freak this could be enough work for the rest of my life...heh, heh.
I am being a bad blogger not sending each of you emails in thanks for the responses to the transitions post and my last self portrait, but please know they mean the world to me to hear from you. I take everything into consideration...you know me and thinking....but the urge, compulsion to work has me in its grips. So please accept this blanket " Thank you so much for your encouragement and comments."
With that aside, I am going off on another tangent with you, dear readers. You know I cannot be trusted to keep these thoughts to myself. Sweet Ronnie always asks with some trepidation, "You talk to these ladies about this stuff?" He is used to my eccentric behavior but is concerned that you might think I am suffering from a small madness. Isn't that sweet?
Okay that being babbled here is the tangent. In my transitions post, I mentioned that I did not think art had to be political or social to be relevant. I still hold to that position. There is nothing wrong with sheer beauty...gorgeous colorwork, excellent composition, etc. However, I realized after some thought that there is an political side to my work...yours also.
Here goes: The fact that we have decided to create art in a craft media is a political statement.
We are not working in the accepted fields of the art world...painting, sculpture....we are working in what has been traditionally considered women's domestic work. We have moved outside of the "dead white men" construct to create in a medium that speaks to us for a variety of reasons.
So with this thought in mind, I am eating crow....I do political, social work because I create art outside of the accepted venues.....and ya know what, I am going to keep on doing just that....proudly thumbing my nose at anyone who says this isn't art.
What are your thoughts on my new ramblings? I gotta a million of them....some not as good as others but that never stops me.
Tomorow I will try posting some of the new drawings but they are in black and white so not sure how they will photograph. Plus some look very complicated in the drawing but will be very easy in the construction.......that is if I ever get back to needle and thread.