Textiles and Tea and white rabbits

The white rabbits seem to hop past faster and faster.

Yesterday's Textiles and Tea, with the wonderful Char Norman, was a great impetus to make paper and use some of my natural dyes from the freezer to color the pulp, and mold it, revisiting things I did long ago. 

She weaves, coils,  draws, makes and casts paper and has adventures all over the world working with natural materials. She likes to reflect her surroundings in her work, like using cactus in its environment, in a kind of conversation with her surroundings. 

A lot of what look like rocks are cast paper pieces simulating rocks and petroglyphs. Some items are natural objects, like the cactus lacy interior below

And she does collages, here on the shrine concept.

And there's stealth art, which she did in Italy, leaving small artworks in the recesses of buildings, like shrines, photographing them in partnership with a photographer friend, then leaving the artwork to its fate.

I've done this locally, to entertain and puzzle local passersby. More below.

Here she is against a backdrop of linen thread, her favorite warping material.

She's an exciting multitalented worker, always ready for new pathways. Currently she's started working with a glass artist to incorporate fiber and glass. Can't wait to see what happens there.

About stealth art: I would hang small rope snd paper sculptures from local trees so people would look twice. One piece I did consisted of filling a small dead wild cherry tree with rocks gathered from around it, so you could see them in the open spaces in the trunk. I took pictures, did drawings, made image transfers of the Polaroid pictures, which were exhibited, and left the tree as I'd done it. 

This was particularly fun, since it was at the edge of a golf course, and I was out walking one day while two golfers were searching for lost golfballs. They noticed the tree and one said "squirrels did that"!  Stealth indeed.