Sunday, January 26, 2014

Back from Freiburg

I have just returned from a few days in Freiburg, where I had the opening of a small exhibition of my works in the gallery space of "quiltart".

Here is Sophie helping me with the hanging - she is almost ten inches taller than I am, and of course used to the hooks in her gallery:

Sophie Maechler hanging Shapes 7, 8 and 9

If you are an attentive reader of this blog you may have noticed that the blue one during its evolution originally was referred to as Shapes 8. However, I saved finishing the binding for when I was finished with the yellow one, too - meant to be Shapes 9. Which led to confusion when stitching the names onto the backs - and when I wanted to put Shapes 9 onto the yellow one, I realized I had already put Shapes 9 onto the blue one. Because I had already closed the seam I really didn't feel like ripping it out again and simply changed the numbers. Not that it makes much of a difference. They could be hung in a different order, too.

Here are a few other views into the gallery:




Attentive guests at the opening:




And a shot of me:

With an official statement about my change of hairstyle, because so many people asked me about it: I really prefer to have my hair completely short. But as my hair colour is changing, the quality of hair changes, too, and I looked like a hedgehog fresh from a severy fight every morning I got up. So my hairdresser suggested to let it grow longer a bit, and she was right, as the increasing length pulls it down a bit. But this as about as long as I am going to let it grow. Looks better than I thought it would, too, I think.

5 comments:

  1. Congratulations, the exhibition looks wonderful!
    It's nice to have a change in hairstyle once in a while. I get my hair cut short every 4 months and it looks very different as it grows out, 2 looks for the price of 1 !

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  2. Your exhibition looks really great, and so does the new hairstyle.

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  3. Your work looks wonderful hung in that space. And your hair looks good too!

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  4. Thanks for all the praise about my new hairstyle ... never thought a simple statement like this would result in so many comments! Makes me feel I should try out as a senior model now. Perhaps there is a career in that waiting for me, after all I am slowly approaching being a member of what a friend of mine yesterday called "the vintage generation".

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