Cultur-e: A sphere shaped quilt

Wow, Uni is over for another Semester. This semester has been pretty full on working on my major project.

The masters I’m studying is in Cross-Disciplinary Art & Design, and so our major project is our own cross-discplinary project. It sounds complicated, but I always explain it to people like this- it’s getting together art and design disciplines (as well as other disciplines) that aren’t usually used together to create awesome new stuff that breaks everyone’s ideas.

The project I’ve decided on deals with how the internet affects culture. For my final piece of Semester 1 (due last night) I did this video explaining an overview of the project. I’d love for you to watch it. There are going to be exciting opportunities for people to be involved later in the year, and next year, with the actual construction of the patchwork piece, so stay tuned!

X-Disc Final Project from Talia Carbis on Vimeo.

Tags: art, assignment, cultur-e, installation, patchwork, quilting, sphere, Uni, unsw, video, vimeo

May seems to be the month of embroidery hoop wall art!

You know how I wrote that article yesterday for WHL on embroidery hoop wall art? Well, it appears May must be the month for it, because it’s the tutorial not only in my 12 Months of Christmas this month, but on Creative Collective as well!

Last night we got the video camera out, and made a video about this Christmas crazy patch wall art! I should be able to show you the video tomorrow, assuming all goes well with the upload (which sadly, is never guaranteed!). Here’s a little sneak peak…

Tags: art, Craft, crazy patch, creative collective, embroidery hoop, may, quilting

Haunted…

I’m not really sure how to start this post, write in it, or end it… all I know is that the other night I met up with a friend of Luke’s who I haven’t seen in years. He asked me if I still painted, and when I said no, he just looked down at the table, nodded his head, and said “that’s a shame”.

And now I’m stuck, and I keep playing it over and over in my head. That was who I was. Such an integral part of me, and now it… isn’t? And someone actually think’s that that’s a shame? How did that HAPPEN??????????

… and I just don’t know what to think, or how to feel, or what to do…

I guess I’m disappointing in myself? Angry with myself? But I’m also tired and unmotivated.

Lately I’ve thought about painting every day. And I’m scared that I’ll never do it again. But every day I go to work, and I make dinner when I get home, and I think to myself, “Talia, be a better wife and clean something for goodness sake!“, and I clean something small, or watch TV with Luke, or just generally waste my time.

I let every day slip away, and I do nothing with it.

Tags: art, creative, day, haunted, me, paint, painting, ross, whoamI?