My Bearded Pigeon AKA Cath. Textiles. Australia.

LOVE/WANT THEM ALL.
Made with organic cotton: "Using organic cotton is an important aspect of this business- not just a marketing ploy. It is reported that traditionally farmed cotton crops are the 2nd largest user of agricultural pesticides in the world. This means that 25% of the world's insecticides and 10% of the world's pesticides are dedicated to cotton. Even scarier than this is the fact that at least four of the top nine pesticides used in treating this cotton is considered by the EPA to be highly carcinogenic."
My Bearded Pigeon donates regularly to kiva.org, Asylum Seekers Resource Centre and MSF (Doctors without Borders).
mybeardedpigeon.com

Andrew Salomone. Artist. Teacher. NY.

Machine Knitting a Cosby Sweater. Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby's face.




Andrew Salomone is 'an artist and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes'.
He uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to "print" digital images into knitted garments.
andrewsalomone.com

Megan Whitmarsh embroidery. LA.

Embroidered School Supplies. "Oscar the Grouch meets Claes Oldenburg".
Making replicas of things feels akin to play, which is perhaps why many artists undertake it. When I was a kid I took a ceramics class and for my “freestyle” project I made a taco. I recall being proud of it and using burlap to make the texture of the tortilla. I forgot about it until I was asked to be in the Early Show at Gavin Brown’s and my mom sent me a box of my childhood art. I was in the process of making a 6-foot pile of handmade trash and one of the pieces I had just made was a fabric taco. I had recognized the redundancy of themes in my work prior to that but it was funny to have it spelled out so clearly: my adult work barely evolved from this object, echoing the redundant influences and themes of both youth and maturity.
See previous post on Megan HERE.
meganwhitmarsh.com

Haptic Lab. Map Quilts. Brooklyn.

Central Park.


"Littles" Map of Queens.


LA baby quilt.


Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.


Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


Manhattan: Union Square to Central Park South.


LA: Santa Monica to Downtown.


Washington D.C.




"Haptic" refers to the sense of touch that includes the entire body, inside and out; it is also the mechanism we employ to situate our bodies in space, feeling the world around us. Like a cane that safely guides someone down the sidewalk, haptic projects serve as tools for sensation. Haptic Lab was founded in 2009 by Emily Fischer, a Brooklyn-based architect and designer. Soft-Maps started in 2002 as an academic experiment in tactile wayfinding; the quilts were inspired by Emily’s mother Peggy who had begun losing her eyesight.
Thanks Dave for the tip!
hapticlab.com