Thursday, October 5, 2017

Getting rid of stuff

My local tapestry group participated in the Christmas exhibition at the Johnston Collection last year. I had started by doing a fairly large (for me) piece, based on a photo of Mr Johnston looking into a mirror, so I had a profile of him. Unfortunately, my original tapestry about Mr Johnston was a failure and I abandoned it before finishing it.
It has been languishing on my loom ever since. It has hours of work in it but is just unusable  - until now!

The Textile Art Community, of Banyule, is having an exhibition using UnFinished Objects (UFOs), not to be confused with Works In Progress (WIPs), repurposed. Mine was not still in progress - it was definitely unfinished, never to be finished.

Anyway,  I have hitched of where I was up to, cut it off the loom and am ready to get rid of it! Hooray.
Mr Johnston is shown behind a privacy screen, as he visited India frequently. The idea was that we show one aspect of ourselves to the world but we have many hidden aspects that are not always seen. 

I'll deliver it tomorrow, all being well.
I will be very interested to see what can be done with it. Their exhibition is called Unfinished Business. I'll be sure to attend.

I have found some other bits and pieces to but they weren't as stressful as the tapestry - it was taking up the loom but not being at all helpful in inspiring me to do anything about it. It has too many hours for me to just get rid of it - then I heard about his wonderful project.


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