sidewalk balloon, 2013Saw this little blob of chewing gum gritted into the sidewalk when I was trying to find a gallery in Chicago. Suffice it to say that Milwaukee Ave is a lot more confusing than google maps leads you to believe. It is one of those little angled streets that changes the way you think about North and South. I walked 6 blocks the wrong way before I realized it then turned around and went 12 blocks the opposite direction. Chicago has long blocks and the territory was a bit vacant. Hence my focus on my feet and the sidewalk. When I saw this blob I decided I would add my own little drawing to remember the day.
Quilt National Artists site publishes my article
Round and Round It Goes by Paula Kovarik
Recently I wrote an artist statement about my quilt, Round and Round It Goes, for the Quilt National Artists website. The piece is traveling with the Quilt National 2013 show (moving to Columbus, Ohio in January).
OK, so I may have a slight advantage, I am actually an administrator of the QNA site...and we needed an article for last Friday. It was a challenge to put into words what a year's worth of thoughts created.
Click here for the result.
progress on the insomnia piece
No loss of inspiration in my life. I just have to try to get to sleep. My brain is on overdrive.
Insomnia, Paula Kovarik
Insomnia, Paula Kovarik
Insomnia
©2013, Insomnia, Paula Kovarik
Here's a work-in-progress shot of a piece I am doing about that netherworld we all feel while trying to go to sleep on a full brain. It is done on a pillow sham given to me by a friend.
rescued from the scrap heap
Earth Stories scrap pillows
This is what happened to that piece I scrapped in March (see previous post here). There is something very comforting about taking a rotary cutter to a piece that did NOT satisfy.
Now I can forget the agony.