Martianknits

Those of you who follow my instagram and/or facebook feed know that I post many in progress shots of current projects. Maybe you wonder why. I take many photos because it is a good way to get a distant view of what I am doing. When working on something intricate like rug hooking or even knitting it is so easy to get wrapped up in the minutia of tiniest of details. What I see while working is usually something like this. Picture is a bit blurry but this is usually how close I am to what I am working on. So I have a vision, the Big Picture, but I work in single loops of colour. As I choose my colours I hope that it is working with the whole.  It is therefore important to take a step back. Even further back. So I take a photo. I ask myself. It is hanging together as a whole. What do I need to change? Where should I go from here? Then I want to share my progress.  Some artists do not. I enjoy the fact that you get to see how the piece comes to life. I enjoy the...

Enceinte.   I was listening to Jeremy Dutcher  (if you haven't listened to him you MUST) and looking through some old doodles and this French word came into my brain.  Enceinte. It means Pregnant. What? Why would this word pop into my mind? I am pregnant with ideas? Certainly not with child!! Perhaps it was this doodle. Looks kind of like a pregnant profile. Non? So I looked up the word.  It turns out it is also an Achaic  noun that means: an enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place. As an adjective it means pregnant.  It comes from the latin  INCINTA which means to “gird in”. Makes sense that it would describe a condition of being with child.  We bearers of children gird them within our fortified belly for nearly 10 months. And then they demand freedom. What other fortifications do we have around ourselves? We all have them I am sure.  I have lovely walls to keep people (and therefore ...