A journal where I share my adventures developing a food forest based on permaculture principles. I also share my love of knitting here. For my life as a textile artist follow me at lesleyturnerart.com
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Bridging Waters: Inspiration
The inspiration for the forms I am making came from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a United Nations World Heritage Site.
William was our guide down to the site. He passionately explained how the huge surging tides of the Bay of Fundy were actively eroding the Joggins Cliffs to reveal more and more fossils. It must be so exciting to be a scientist going down to the beach under the cliffs when the tide is out, particularly after the high spring tides, to see what new fossils had been revealed.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Bridging Waters Body of Work
Saturday, June 1, 2013
New Work for Briding Waters Exhibition
Saturday, May 25, 2013
When you get paid, is it still Graffiti?
Monday, May 20, 2013
Learning to Multi-project
This past month I have been working on 3 very different projects - at the same time!
I don't know when it happened but I have learnt to have more than one project on the go whereas before I found I could focus on only one at a time.
Here is what I have been working on - knitting rectangles...
...and making a form for a 3D work.
Not only can I handle it, it feels exciting to be moving each one along. It gives me percolation time and incubation time for each one so I know what needs to be done next. Now stalling time is minimal.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Memorial Art
After the 2 recent collapses of Asian clothing factories resulting in loss of life, I was reminded again of walking through the downtown core of Christchurch in New Zealand this past summer.
On an empty lot where a church had stood there was an art installation of white painted chairs sitting on artificial grass.
The sign tells of the many times empty chairs have been given meaning by artists: Vincent van Gogh, the site of the Oklahoma Bombing, the NY 9/11 site. . .
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Cut Flower Bed
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