art inspiration list

Here are few things/words that inspire me at the moment:

- future
- comfort
- pairing
- mending
- fixing
- fusing

Whilst at college I read a lot about Louise Bourgeois whom I can't even find the words to describe.

I read some of her writings where she talks about her family, her father's behaviour and her mother's attempts to protect her family whilst working in the family tapestry business.

Bourgeois' parents competed for her her attention by buying her couture garments. Their whole family life was determined by stitch and textiles and repair.

I need to find some new exhibitions to visit in order to sustain the interest I have in stitching as metaphor and expression of family and relationships. Having stopped studying and realised that I am unlikely to be able to continue, it is going to be difficult, I think, to continue that interest. Exposure to working artists and their ideas is vital.

Like any other world, the worlds of stitching and textiles are layered themselves with different groups and cliques. Working part-time and fitting in the odd exhibition are not going to be enough to get immersed in them.

But I can visit, I expect.