I did, after all, get power back in time for this Textiles and Tea, with Murray Gibson. Blogger refuses to insert the image here, so read on.
He turned out to be a lot less grim than his picture. His driving force as a tapestry weaver, is to create works that are best exoressed in cloth.
This is not as obvious as it seems, as you'll see when you note people painting what photography can do, or drawing what weaving would do better, or stitching what painting would work better for. Every subject doesn't belong in any old medium.
He's also interesting in that he's equally at home creating realistic images and abstractions. He explains this as realism seizing a moment in material life, and abstraction seizing an idea.
The bottom image is about the work done by young students in the l'Arche program, like ARC in the US, I think, an agency to support and offer opportunity to young people with cognitive disability. He's very involved in spending time with the participants in this program, and finds that they love studying and working in tapestry.
He's very ready to acknowledge the teaching he's had and the debt he owes to great teachers. He seems to have continued the tradition of generous teaching, since a lot of the comments were shout-outs to his own teaching!
He currently teaches college level and is in fact teaching this morning on Zoom, and
trying to adapt to this new way of teaching, enforced by Covid.
Check his website. He's a very good tapestry weaver and a nice man, great combo.
That was part Three of yesterday.
Today is the next stage of the Dinner.
Prepping the fish, and the halibut separated very easily, so the fish is all marinating now, to cook at the last minute. After which I'll dress it in the lemon juice and garlic mixture in the bowl.
The onions are not quite caramelized but nearly, and I'll reheat them with the rice this evening.
Meanwhile, here's what I hope to live by
