Practice Knots

Chinese Knot Tying

I'm starting to realize this process is like advance origami. The patterns have a mathematical ratio, and I fear my math skills would have been higher if I learned this process a long time ago.

The following are links to videos and PDFs on how to tie some of these decorative knots.
Pang Chang Knot and how to Tighten it
Clifford W. Ashley Flower Knot

I need to get the Ashley book of Knots

The message

Theme

            The message

                        Society (dominant cultural expectations, patterns of relationships in dominant and

                                       subgroups, collaborative)

                        The rituals of Knot making

                                    Sub culture

                                                Relationships-Friendship bracelets

                                                Social- Hair Braids, hair styles use to represent a status

                                                Survival- Boy scouts, boat knots, fishing

                                    Cultures with knots as an integrate role

                                                Spiritual to decorative.

                                                Endless Knot

                                                            Celtic Knots

                                                            Chinese decorative knotting

Shrink Wrapping

With Art-Whirl happening tonight at 5pm, I have been thinking of a way to shrink wrap my prints from MCAD.  I am discovering that it is an expensive process. I could take it to Kelly's Gallery in Woodbury where the owner Don Kelly quoted be at $26 for each piece to be shrink wrapped. He said he would cut me a deal if I brought in 10 at a time, but honestly I was wondering if I could do this cheaper by myself.

I found a few sites for materials:
Acid-Free Foam Board    $148.30 for 25 sheets
Shrink Wrap Film   $64.00 for 28" x 500' roll

Of course this doesn't include the tools I will need:
film sealer
silicone pad
film dispenser
heat gun

Or I can just get a kit like these:
Dick Blick Kit      $228.99

New Ideas- Books insipration

Pictures taken from Prints Now in 3D @ MCBA

New Ideas- Books

New Studio location

The new paper studio I am working at is located in downtown Minneapolis at a place called the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Some things i enjoy about this space are: The floors is tilted to the drain, three beaters, available flat file and small storage for my supplies, and a community of artist. I am currently the paper studio monitor which means I will be running the open studio workshops. This Saturday come join me for some marbling fun.

As far as my art goes, I am working on dying some Kozo which will be pulled genitally apart to make a organic web. I will be making about 100 of these webs about 6 inches in legnth. Then I will chine-colle them to some recycled paper sheets to make my wedding intentations. I am also continuing my printing process from graduate school but I still don't know how I'm going to print these. MCAD is now charging a $40 fee for anyone (inculding faucautly) who uses the printshop. I was really hoping to use that studio in June. Now I have to come up with $40.