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My name rhymes with "Lisa," I live in Midland, Texas, because it's warm and the mortgage is cheap, and of course this is my natural hair color. Of course! The EGE--The Ever-Gorgeous Earl--is my husband of 35 years. I have the best job in the world because I get to call up artists and ask them nosy questions and then write about them. I also stitch, podcast, blog, and then, in my spare time, do it all some more.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

South African Artist in Wood

Oh, my! These totems are fabulous. I’m particularly enchanted with the trickster ones—I don’t know if she would call them that, but they remind me of the coyote trickster pieces we saw along the road. Fabulous. I want to touch them—there’s something about smooth, hand-worked wood. So sensuous, so familiar.

4 comments:

Robyn said...

I've just emailed you and decided to come over to browse your blog. Thanks for the surprise.

Suella said...

Great work. Fascinating use of Pan-African motifs and material. I was startled at first by the use of the European stle found metal objects with what at first glance looked like pre-colonial style African carvings.

The artist has a great feel for her material and its history. I loved the fertility figures. Some reminded me of the Willendorf Venus.

Great juxtapositions. I loved looking at all of her photographs of her work. Inspirational.

I could see mixing textiles and beadwork and wood and...

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

Leslie Avon Miller said...

Robyn's work is unique and done so authentically.

jude said...

wonderful, thanks!

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