Design needs to have a connection to where it's made.
Eleanor Pritchard, designer-weaver
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Oh, Canada! Off the top of my head, you don't worship guns, and let every simpleton buy them.You have wonderful, humane, efficient health care for all of your citizens. You nourish your artists: Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Alice Munro all sprang from your soil. You seem to be doing something right that your neighbors to the South, just don't get.
Which brings me to Dorothy Caldwell, Canadian artist, whose steady-state work is having a profound effect on me, these days. I get from her that the place where we make our own art becomes the art that we make there. Place permeates art, art defines the place. Someday I hope to cross paths with her. I hope you'll like to read Judy Martin's good piece on the artist, Dorothy Caldwell
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...and Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood and many others. Thank you for the link, Susan--will be sure to read up on this wonderful work.
Dawn, yes. Those Canadians shine.
i love living near the border...i've lived all my life (minus 5 years) a short ride and a big bridge from ontairo, both sides of the easternmost great lake. AND i just decided to take a class with dorothy in june!
Thank you for the link...I really enjoyed reading Judy Martin's thoughts about Dorothy Caldwell's work. Being Australian I would love to see her work up close, that Dorothy produced after her visit to Australia.
I, too, want to thank you for the link. I've not been familiar with Caldwell and will check out more about her now.
Agreed with everything you say and have adored Caldwell's work for a long time! I love reading anything I can about her? Hmm, wonder if there's a book about her ... If not there should be!
Velma. Jealous. I hope you'll tell it all on your blog. Pictures, too!
Kathryn, If you wrote that book it would be fantastic.
It would.
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