laying out the little triangles and stripes and deciding what looks good (also
the funnest part).
i keep thinking about things people have told me about
sewing productivity: set up a jig to fold hems for you, don't pin things or you'll
never make any money. then i think about how nice it is to sit down and sew
one or two things. i guess i wasn't cut out for production sewing, but that's
by no means a problem.
i've been blowing a LOT of glass since i got back from boston. i've been in a
studio 4 days since monday (counting tonight that is). yesterday i went to see
a demo by the de la torre brothers at CCA. they make things like this:
yesterday they made a giant glass sugar skull that said "craft" across the
forehead, very appropriate subject matter for Cqlifornia College of the Arts,
formerly California College of Arts and Crafts.
i met one of the CCA students who had worked in a production shop for 3 years
before deciding to try art school. his work was technically spot on, there were
these swell pieces that he had spray painted a matte black that were pretty gorgeous.
he said it was pretty hard to start thinking of glass in a conceptual way after 5+
years of acquiring technical proficiency. that's what i'm grappling with now as
well, and all i can think is, why glass?
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