Midori Snyder's Blog, page 66

Still House Hunting...But There Is Always Time For Shakespeare's Sonnets

When I get really cranky about the life in limbo I am living (how many times this last week did I reach for something only to realize it was packed in one of the many indistinguishable boxes?) I turn to...

João Ruas and a Bordertown Moment

My life is still in limbo and I am stuck between an East-West border at the moment looking for a home. But when I saw this astonishing work by Brazillian artist and illustrator João Ruas I thought of another Bordertown...

Moving Daze

I shall be a bit scarce on the blog over the next few days as I work through the logistics of packing, hunting for new digs and eventually moving everything. Hoping to find a new and ever more lovely shell...

Stacey Page: Embroidery and Found Photographs

Stacey Page creates the most intriquing and stunning works combining found vintage photographs with embroidery. She constructs new fantastic identities from the smiling faces with her imaginative use of embroidery. The results are simply awesome. In an interview Page describes...

Ursula Kirchner: Fairy Tale Paper Cuts

Ursula Kirchner -- like Lotte Reiniger Silhouette Films -- did amazing work in black and white detailed paper cut illustrations. These beauties are from Märchen, edited by Karlhans Frank, published by the Goethe-Institute in 1985. I love this style --...

Teaching Children to Sing the Blues

I love this...the children are so funny and Conan has managed to make of their young lives blues songs -- getting hit with a ball, being forced to eat edamame, and no chocolate on Wednesdays. Kudos to St. Francis Xavier...

A Few Things About Ants: Jeffrey Ford

I saw this pair of ant salt and pepper shakers and was reminded of the short story "A Few Things About Ants," by Jeffery Ford that Terri and I published in an issue of the Journal of Mythic Arts. When...

Samplers: Counted Thread Cross Stitches and Reticella, "Needle In the Air"

Here are two more pieces I did as samplers at about 20 -- one in cross stitch, counting every thread "five over-five up" to keep it all even. I took the patterns from and old DMC book that had them...

Blue Birds and Unicorns

Here's another work shirt embroidery that I did for my husband. I always liked the idea that the embroidery was to enhance something that already existed, something that could be worn or used. So for a while I was practicing...

Stitched Samurai On My Husband's Work Shirt

"Stitched samurai poised On my husband's blue work shirt Swords prepared to act." This is for Mo Crow who has been asking me to show some of my old embroidery pieces. I had to dig deep in the boxes of...