Renegade Craft Fair Submission

Merissa & DJ helped me finish our submission Images for the Renegade Craft Fair today (or yesterday, cause it's now about 1:45am)
Also our logo is done and at the bottom of the page of each set of images.
Please review all images, if you would like any changes please send me an email, or respond to one you should have gotten in your inbox letting you know about this post! I will be submitting our application on Monday morning, so if I don't hear anything by then, it will go as is.

Also today Merissa and I purchased the www.onestonecollective.com website address. Now if you visit there you will be automatically taken here to the blog. So for now we have our website, and we can add content when it is ready.

Sweet dreams all and happy spring!
-Meghan

March Meeting

The March meeting of The One Stone Collective was even more fabulous than usual. It was super productive with a decision to apply for a booth in the Renegade Craft Fair, Brooklyn, picking out our spaces for our pieces on the grounds, and brainstorming about how to get a buzz going for the show on June 27th. EXCITING! Nevermind the amazing blueberry pancakes Marcie whipped up on Sunday morning. And the 5 gallons of coffee consumed.
Tink had to withdraw from the Collective due to a novel deadline. Katrina (if you haven't noticed) has officially signed on from California.
Check your emails for more info about the craft fair and our next meeting.

Mini's and a Net

Meghan checking in here. I'm working on 2 ideas at the moment.
The first takes compass literally, as a rose compass on a map. I started by finding antique maps and tracing off my favorite ones.


My Goal: Create miniature sculptures of different rose compass styles, done in various mediums. I'm starting first with a layered card style and I plan to do one that is carved, one from wire. Then I'll see where it goes.


The second idea came from thinking about compass and letting my mind wander. You can use one to lead you places, to give you direction, but we all have one place in mind. We all wish to "go home" and in our lives we travel we return to places that mean something to us. We follow certain paths over and over, and some we take just a single time. Sometimes we take the long road, and other times it's getting there that is important, not the journey. From this I started to see the "web" we weave through our lives and in our travels.
My Goal: to weave my web through the trees, to show the density and the openness in the journey of one. I want to make a big red net from collected red things, be it string, strips of fabric etc.

Now a gratuitous photo from one of the map books

Red Sweater & Yellow Porch from Oakland, CA

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Hello all! This is my first post on the One Stone Collective blog. I'm delighted to be involved in the collective and the upcoming compass exhibition. (Thank you, Marcie.) I'll be telecommuting from California and promise to be more regular with my posts after my wedding and honeymoon this April. (Eek!) However, I found these little compasses while cleaning out my studio a few weeks ago. They were too sweet to pass up, especially in the midst of the exhibition focus. So, some little compass images for you.

For my project, I'll be using a set of TTV images and adapting the poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. I think I'll be making a book w/ text and image and maybe red recycled sweater parts, but it might turn into a photo narrative... we'll see. Regardless, this is the poem I'm working with for now:

so much depends
upon
a red wool
sweater
stitched by one
woman
beside the yellow
porch.

This poem/ photo/ book creation will be part of my exploration of art, craft, poetry and its relevance in the 21st century fine arts world. I'm toying with the idea of navigation (inspired by our dear compass theme) and how we navigate as artists, as women, as crafters through a very modern world. Also, how we find significance in our navigation and meaning in our personal and/or creative work. I'm not sure any of this will end up in the final project--which might just be a series of photographs combined with the above text--but the thinking always shapes the final project, even if it's just woven into the making. Lastly, here's a sample of some of the images I'll be working with:

It's nice to meet you all, virtually! And best of luck w/ your own projects. I'm delighted to be on board. More soon. XoXo, Katrina.

Speaking in Code

So I went off on a bit of a tangent this week.  

I have been interested in Morse Code for a little while now but it resurfaced when I was doing research on ships for my One Stone piece.  I decided to play with it a little using my typewriter and old catalogs.  It's all part of the idea that old technology makes way for new and then is lost.  But when I take the train from Cornwall to New York City the route is lined by old telegraph wires with their blue and green glass caps and I can almost hear the clickity-clack of someone tapping long ago.  STOP.