This post is updated from time to time to remind myself of all the wonderful ideas I could investigate.
Front Burner:
* October 2012 Exhibition: Pillars, Self-Portrait, Pretty
* Garments as dwelling of the most immediate kind/cloth as outer skin
* Textile in museums/relics/artifacts
* Tied weaves with emphasis on the tied pattern
Cooling on the Side
* Deceptively simple/complex cloth
* Cloths woven on four or fewer shafts
Back Burner:
* Analogous Log Cabin
* More Rococo
* More Pacifika
* Pineapples
* Hippopotamuses
* Central Asian/Muslim headgear, especially men's
* Yardage, especially textural Autumn/Winter fabric
* Woven Trapunto
* Messages/language/hidden codes in cloth
* Costumes, theatrical and dance
* Good luck charms for others, as in the opposite of curses and needles-in-dolls
Back of the Back Burner:
* Deep Sea creatures
* Arabic scripts
* The Library of Alexandria
* Boats as Objects, especially handmade wooden boats
Fallen Behind the Stove but Not Forgotten:
* Textural shibori
* Garments made with my cloth
That's a great idea - it is so easy to forget good ideas and inspirations because they get overtaken by newer events!
ReplyDeleteExactly. And oddly, years may pass before I look at the list again, and yet I'm still thrilled about some of the items on the list that's lived there forever. Central Asian head gear is one; hippos and pineapples also.
ReplyDeleteI also love maple leaves, and have played around with the idea on paper, but there's a big tree right outside our bedroom window so I've never put it in writing.