Vancouver
Circle Craft Christmas Market acknowledges the entry into the Christmas shopping season for Vancouverites. The market has been around since 1973 and grown to hosting 310 artisans. It has to be held in the Vancouver Convention Centre since I've been attending it, giving the shopper room to linger, touch and examine everything.
A friend and I attended it on Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm. Yes, that's 7 hours of looking, getting inspired and making a few purchases as well. Of course I was most interested in those selling knit wears like Craftworks, Mimi and Vividworks. But the most astonishing item was seeing Sola Fielder's exhibit. Although she was selling hats and scarves, it was the item shown above which is 11.6’ x 5.3’ that completely mesmerized me.
From a distance it looks like an aerial photo of Vancouver focused on the downtown. But look closer and you can see that this talented artist has used recycled textiles, mainly yarn from thrift shop sweaters. This particular work took the artist five years to create this show-stopper. Please go to the Sola Fiedler website so you can get a closer look at her work for yourself. (The photos are so big they don't fit into this format.) Fielder was pleased the tapestry will stay in Vancouver and be available to the public. However the most amazing part of this story is Fielder has also created large tapestries for other Olympic-hosting cities including, Las Vegas USA, Salt Lake City USA and Sydney Australia. (Go to the websites to see them.)
The talent it takes to find sweaters in the right colours and texture, to turn them into thread/yarn, and finally the overall artistic talents to create such works immensely impressed me. Hats off to you the very talented Sola Fielder.
What a lovely way to spend a day impressed, awed and at times overwhelmed by creative genius.
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It has been six months since Mike, the cat's, passing. I think of him every day and miss him especially when Paul is away. Mike was a being in the house with me and we were close. Grieving his death has been muddled with my Dad's passing and sometimes I feel guilty about that happening. As time passes the ache becomes less hurtful for both and I am starting to get mostly good memories in its place. Recently I helped celebrate Pablo Neruda's birthday with Jami, my poet and overall very creative friend. Guests were asked to select one poem written by Neruda to read to the small group who gathered for the celebration. I picked this one: Ode To The Cat -- Pablo Neruda There was something wrong with the animals: their tails were too long, and they had unfortunate heads. Then they started coming together, little by little fitting together to make a landscape, developing birthmarks, grace, flight. But the cat, only the cat turned out finished, and
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