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Sporting stains including, but not limited to: breast milk, dog drool, baby drool, spinach baby purée, and gratin dauphinois, everything sprinkled with lavish amounts of dog hair. Still no couch.
Taiga’s first museum visit! He loved the interactive “witnesses” — life-size projections of individuals telling their stories. I guess he doesn’t get to see many people’s faces, due to being a pandemic baby, but he was transfixed watching all the different people talking and engaging with him. Another “pandemic baby” experience is interacting with people on screens, since he Facetimes a lot with our family in New Zealand and Australia. Thanks for the sweet pictures of us @micheligodwini
It’s great being in the right timezone to attend online talks. I was intrigued to watch this one, organised by the ICON Ethn*graphy group: “Multaka-Oxford: Museum Collections from Multiple Perspectives”, about a digital exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford curated by volunteers, many of whom share cultural backgrounds with the objects they chose to display. My initial reason for watching was because of a talk a couple of weeks ago about the book “The Brutish Museums” and the Benin Bronzes. The talk was a panel centred around the author who is also the curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum of anthropology, aka “the most violent place in Oxford” according to Rhodes Must Fall Oxford. I confess that I found the Brutish Museums talk a bit disappointing and ironically still very centred upon a white male academic telling us that the museum is still too white, male and academic (yes, yes it is sir). However I wanted to get a better idea of the museum’s actual praxis, and this project hinted at being, if nothing else, more diverse in its storytelling. And it is a beautiful project (based on one in Germany). But all the way through I kept waiting to hear how these digital curators and experts in bringing meaning to the PRM’s collections had been compensated... but (tragically although unsurprisingly) they were rewarded by the “social interaction” and “sense of pride”. I rather cowardly asked my question anonymously but I should own my opinions here at least! This initiative isn’t just a feel-good exercise. It’s an incredibly valuable output at a time when museums are not able to host visitors. This digital exhibition is curated by experts who bring lived experiences and meaning to objects that a white Anglo curator (such as myself) COULD NEVER. It has a lot of value. It feels incredibly disingenuous to lean on people who already volunteer their time, to take from them in a way that benefits everyone (the museum, the collections, and society at large) and not give even a token payment. If crappy magazines can pay £25 for a “top tip” about recycling toilet rolls into glasses cases (@britishgoop) then the University of Oxford can do better.
Just watched the most delicious talk about cleaning some of the gigantic historic carpets at Felbrigg Hall, by Ksynia Marko and Glyn Charnock. I loved seeing the bags of extracted dust and the filthy rinse water — this “dirt trolley” is certainly my kind of visitor engagement. I can see it recruiting a few curious onlookers to the dark side! #textileconservation #icontextiles
Baby and colours on a makeshift couch (both of ours are stranded on a shipping container somewhere in the ocean). #oddrunembroidery is progressing slowly! #rosielovesrainbows
Can’t wait for row 5, if only my child would understand that watching me do embroidery is the most entertaining thing he could hope for. #oddrunembroidery
Baby’s first hongbao 🧧
Hanging out on the #oddrunembroidery with my mini boss
The first time I’ve worked on a project that doubles as a blanket. Ideal for the winter evenings whilst vaguely watching TV. #oddrunembroidery
From the curated albums of @kim.siebert TOTOYA HOKKEI (1780-1850)
Couldn’t resist taking a picture for my #rosielovesteal hashtag 👗🩱🧤🩴
My DMC colour card came today! Hundreds of samples of embroidery floss 😍😍😍 I have wanted one for so long and now I wonder why I ever held back. It’s a rather unwieldy thing to photograph, but so is my (currently stalled) #oddrunembroidery, so I put them side by side on my studio/couch. Next week we will finally be in our apartment in France and enjoy spending time in separate rooms (although our furniture won’t arrive from Taiwan for another couple of weeks, so I will probably miss this couch very quickly). #rosielovesrainbows #dmcnuancier500coloris
I just finished the second row only to realise upon closer inspection I accidentally modified the design of the trees 😣 oh well at least they are consistent within their own rows... I’m itching to start row number three but 1) I need to go to bed and 2) I’m not yet 100% sure of the colourways I picked out — the light in our living room is so different from in the shop and of course so are the colours I pick on a computer screen. I therefore have treated myself to a DMC floss sampler book! It makes sense given coronavirus lockdown measures — I won’t always have the luxury of running downstairs... but it seems lots of people have had the same idea as nearly all the French and Swiss providers were “en rupture de stock” so I had to order mine from the UK, I hope it reaches me soon. What strange times we live in. #huckembroidery #oddrunembroidery
I’m surrounded but still stitching! I’ve been enjoying this design which I made my own by incorporating a twist in the tree “branches” to make it more three-dimensional. I have dreams of covering the entire blanket in rows of trees, each row a different colourway... to be honest, an excuse to stockpile dozens of colours of DMC! #huckembroidery #oddrunembroidery
Le Wombat, spotted in a boulangerie window 🟫❤️
Karl me and a snowcat ❄️ 🐈
6 rows done, 3 more rows to go to finish this edge and maybe do another edge although maybe I’ll do it in another colourway, break free from the #rosielovesteal palette? #huckembroidery is so easy and fun, it’s perfect for a brain-dead, sleep-deprived needlework addict. #oddrunembroidery
Fifteen minutes of single-handed embroidery. It’s a very simple stitch and pattern but my fabric has four warps per float, and each time I’m stitching behind the middle two. So I’m fiddling around trying to get my needle in between warps... I should be sleeping (although I’ve practically forgotten what sleep feels like). Swipe to see why I only have one hand free... sleep regression is killing me! #oddrunembroidery
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