Melissa Johnson

Beginnings of a sweater.

I’m checking out Pinksky…

#pinkskyPost

How are you dealing? Do you have an amulet to level against what feels like disaster? I admit, I’m shielding my eyes at times (like my cat, Sam) but only in order to be able to focus on work.

I got new pens in the mail the other day! Some are so fine - like .28 mm, others .38 mm - so I’ve been playing with these drawings. Trying to create folds in the fabric mesh. #drawnthreads #drawing

…not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended.” (Virginia Woolf, “The Man at the Gate,” The Death of the Moth, and other essays) (Tactile Investigations & Woolf Words)

Early stage of stitching. Establishing pattern and structure. I kind of like it like this but will keep going.

Holiday light extravaganza in Normal IL - every year there are more!

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A new-to-me painting in the Art Institute of Chicago by Hannah Hoech, “Vegetative” 1950, oil on canvas. ✨✨✨✨

Paul Klee, "Fleeing Ghost" (Fliehender Geist), 1929, at the Art Institute of Chicago. I visit with this piece each time, imagining Klee in 1929, nine years after his "Angelus Novus" (1920), Walter Benjamin's "angel of history"

Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Woman Weaving in Profile” (1898-99) at the Art Institute of Chicago - the gesture of her hands, the thread just visible.

“We are whirled asunder”
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Figuring out how I might use this space…. For now, will introduce myself with some of my
#woolfwords #tactileinvestigations

“It is a very agreeable thing to have drawn work made of thread…” Gertrude Stein, How to Write #drawnthreads #gertrudestein