When you skim as many blogs as I do, it’s not surprising that it can take a while for some things to penetrate and coalesce.
Earlier in the month, I was reading Sarah Ann Smith’s blog and she wrote about her two contributions to the World Beach Project organised by the V&A Museum in London:
The World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, of any age. Building on the experience many of us have of making patterns on beaches and shorelines, this project combines the simplicity of making patterns with stones with the complexities of shape, size, colour, tone, composition, similarity and difference.
As we don’t get many stones on the beach here at Copacabana, I didn’t think much more about it. Then yesterday I was reading Robin Ferrier’s blog and she referred to the work of Sue Lawty. As I clicked through the images, I recognised some pieces that had impressed me when my sister Amy and I explored the textile collection at the V&A in 2006. And then as I read some more, I realised that Sue Lawty is Artist in Residence at the V&A and actually devised the World Beach Project. So now I am off in search of stones…
Robin Ferrier says
Me too! Maybe we should just put it out there to fellow quilters to participate in the beach project thing. It’s starting to get warm out (well for some people) and once again people will be out and about. I think I’ll write about it. Thanks for mentioning me in your blog.