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ellenkushnerThe IAF Salon Discussion is up to 6 whole pages, and makes scrumptious reading, as artists I really admire - Wendy Ellertson, Rachel Pollack, Elise Matthesen, Jon Singer, callligrapher Jae Leslie Adams (whose work I always end up buying at Wiscon, and - hey! I see she's also ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maryread! and has pieces posted!) and more - talk about everything from The Pillow Book and Shelley Jackson's tattoo text, book art, body art, to how to sit down with a pile of beads and make art - as ktempest just posted over at the IAF Auction page, "There are a lot of threads we’re picking up and chewing over, but this question from Elise is particularly crunchy:
"When you make art of some kind, whether it’s writing a story or making some shiny thing or other, do you feel the impetus in your mind, or as a sort of pull in parts of your body, or something else? Is it different for different arts, for you?"
Of course, I love this (also from Elise) about Interfictions:
The way writing can be sparked by tangible tokens like jewelry is definitely a thing of magic and interstitiality. For the last ten years, I've been keeping track of such things, in Haiku Earring Parties at WisCon and elsewhere, and in the Artists' Challenge program. (Next month I'll be putting out a chapbook, Glass Bead Games, with stories, poems and essays by Sarah Monette, Elizabeth Bear, Jane Yolen, Beth Meacham, Ariel Franklin-Hudson, and Betsy Lundsten, all inspired by pieces I've made. I'm really excited about it!)
I've seen Erzebet Yellowboy doing some very interesting stuff with words and sculpture, and many others. There's a lot of it going on out there. I was delighted that this auction project came about, because it's a lovely way to more fully inhabit the concept of interstitiality, moving it beyond the realm of "words that cross over" and letting the words and the wire and the beads and the songs all dance together.
I love the IAF anthology, and one of the things I personally like so much about it is that each story really feels to me like a little work of sculpture. I don't know how to say it better than that, and that's not sufficient, but... these stories, in Interfictions, are little wonders that catch the imagination, catch my imagination, in the same way that a wonderful bit of driftwood does, or a bead broken in exactly the right place. The book immediately took its place among my favorite anthologies ever, for that.
. . . and finally, Wendy Ellertson saying: "Is part of being comfortable in the world of the interstitial being comfortable with letting go of control?"
Please feel welcome to come and lurk (like me) or engage in this inspired & inspiring IAF Salon - and tell your buds! Don't be shy. The more thoughts and voices, the better.
maryread! and has pieces posted!) and more - talk about everything from The Pillow Book and Shelley Jackson's tattoo text, book art, body art, to how to sit down with a pile of beads and make art - as ktempest just posted over at the IAF Auction page, "There are a lot of threads we’re picking up and chewing over, but this question from Elise is particularly crunchy:"When you make art of some kind, whether it’s writing a story or making some shiny thing or other, do you feel the impetus in your mind, or as a sort of pull in parts of your body, or something else? Is it different for different arts, for you?"
Of course, I love this (also from Elise) about Interfictions:
The way writing can be sparked by tangible tokens like jewelry is definitely a thing of magic and interstitiality. For the last ten years, I've been keeping track of such things, in Haiku Earring Parties at WisCon and elsewhere, and in the Artists' Challenge program. (Next month I'll be putting out a chapbook, Glass Bead Games, with stories, poems and essays by Sarah Monette, Elizabeth Bear, Jane Yolen, Beth Meacham, Ariel Franklin-Hudson, and Betsy Lundsten, all inspired by pieces I've made. I'm really excited about it!)
I've seen Erzebet Yellowboy doing some very interesting stuff with words and sculpture, and many others. There's a lot of it going on out there. I was delighted that this auction project came about, because it's a lovely way to more fully inhabit the concept of interstitiality, moving it beyond the realm of "words that cross over" and letting the words and the wire and the beads and the songs all dance together.
I love the IAF anthology, and one of the things I personally like so much about it is that each story really feels to me like a little work of sculpture. I don't know how to say it better than that, and that's not sufficient, but... these stories, in Interfictions, are little wonders that catch the imagination, catch my imagination, in the same way that a wonderful bit of driftwood does, or a bead broken in exactly the right place. The book immediately took its place among my favorite anthologies ever, for that.
. . . and finally, Wendy Ellertson saying: "Is part of being comfortable in the world of the interstitial being comfortable with letting go of control?"
Please feel welcome to come and lurk (like me) or engage in this inspired & inspiring IAF Salon - and tell your buds! Don't be shy. The more thoughts and voices, the better.