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Twyla Tharp, #5 — Your creative DNA

And since my computer isn’t cooperating at all tonight (I need a NEW one…gotta get work so I can afford one!) I’ll post another cool quotation from Twyla Tharp. Tomorrow, I’m hoping to share pics of our weekend camping in Acadia National Park. And before the quote…go visit Joan Hawley’s new blog! She is the creativity and hard work behind Lazy Girl Designs, which has some of the best and most popular purse and other patterns in the quilting industry…she has a “sneak peek” of a new bag on her blog…I hope Kona Bay fabrics let’s her play with more of their fabrics. And now to Twyla…..

I’d never quite seen it summarized like this, but Tharp posits that some folks look at the world from a great distance (think of the photography of Ansel Adams or the paintings of Albert Bierstadt — the vast panorama of majestic Earth), at arm’s length like Ben Shahn (one of the famous WPA — Works Progress Administration photographers…try here to see some photos from the Depression / 1930s USA) or close-up (I immediately thought of Textile artist Karen Kamenetzky’s “cell” quilts here) .

I think I shift from great distance to (mostly) arm’s length. Some of the “space” quilts, the Circular Paradox quilts, are about great distances. What examples can you think of in the quilting world? What is your creative DNA? I guess it’s why some of us just “do” abstracts and others of us “do” realistic…..

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