Doing good with music, poetry, and prose
Since it is after Labor Day, and it even feels a tiny bit fall-ish in my backyard, I finally feel that I can share my Etsy store with you. This is not art, it’s just craft. It is fun, though, I love doing it, and you would probably love having one of my original designs for the long winter.
Here’s a link to the store: CLICK HERE FOR AWESOME HATS!
Here are some photos of the hats. I’ve been working on them all summer long, and I have a now fairly impressive collection of almost 50 hats.
I don’t stumble over fiber arts all that often, which is probably my own fault. I find it unusual to discover a fiber artist who escapes the trap of craftiness, cuteness, or just plain lack of innovation. I say this as a practitioner of fiber arts, and with the full knowledge that my own small work falls into all three of those categories. But today, Anna Kubinyi has defied all my expectations for fiber arts, bringing to the genre a multi-layered complexity and depth of meaning I was frankly stunned to find in a tapestry.
This was the first piece to catch my eye, but all of her work I find just thrilling and deep. The website linked here is in Hungarian, but Chrome will translate it for you like it did for me. Although the font is hard to read and the translation isn’t perfect, I was still really impressed at Kubinyi’s beautiful expression in her writing as well as her artwork. I really loved reading her autobiography, which reveals so much (to me) about her spirit of strength and discovery. So now you have to check it out, just to see what the heck I’m talking about.