Today's work in progress “Basket-case”
Materials - plastic wire casing out of a broken electric lap blanket.
Technique - Basketry ( inspired by an 1956 book on Canework by Charles Crampton)
I’m remembering that I love the challenge of working with unconventional materials, and being called to create by what’s around me. I've had this in my stash for a while. I’m particularly enamoured with the black text on it. I've tried crocheting with it - tricky- then unravelled and it waited until today.
The heaviness of life lately is starting to lift (everything is still a lot, post Feb 2022 Lismore NSW floods) and finding my way back/forward to putting the practice into Practicing Artist.
This may be the first piece I’ve put my hand to for 3 months. Feels good - healing. And the name of the piece is a whimsical expression of my state is mind of late.
In its unfinished state, I tell myself it has potential. Perhaps part of my growing collections of vessels made with recycled materials? It may end up in my tub of play pieces (aka failures). It doesn't matter. Today I sat in the winter sun, and practiced. Doing the work always pays off. That basketry technique will play into some future piece, or not. Mostly I think today doing the work was just that. No reason, purpose, outcome. Creativity for creativity's sake.
“ Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” —Bruce Garrabrandt.
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