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| Recycled Dog Food Bag by Rayela Art |
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| Rachel Biel, 1989 |
Many years ago I used to work with clay. I loved it! I did it for about four years and my skill level was just at the point where some serious work was beginning to happen. Mostly, I made bowls and boxes to sell at art fairs and shops, but I was getting into big, sculptural work.
We had a community of clay artists who remain as some of my favorite people to this day. I saw Roberta and Maryanne when I was in Chicago a couple of months ago:
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| Patte, Kate and Andi at the back, Maryanne and Roberta in front. Chicago clay artists in the late 1980's. |
We made many wonderful things and then there were those awful ones, best used smashed as fillers for the bottoms of flower pots. I used to imagine our work being excavated a couple hundreds of years from now... remnants of a lost civilization. What would the future archaeologists think of us?
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| Art festival in Chicago, 1995 |
By the mid 90's, I had moved on to fiber, hooked forever. Clay had become impractical and I wanted something that I could work on at home. Almost everything that I make now would rot away if it was buried. From dust to dust. That really appeals to me!
So, I sew, embroider and fold paper, salvaged from my dog's food bags. That is, theoretically, I do. I haven't made much since I launched
TAFA almost two years ago, but my hope is that I will have more time once our
new site is launched. I have lots of ideas in my head that are begging to come out, all biodegradable!
I have several pillows, a couple of hats, dogfood bags, pillows and some other things I've made in my Etsy shop:
Rayela on Etsy. I moved everything I made into that link to make it easy to find. You will see that I love texture and little pieces of things brought together to make something bigger... I try to use recycled supplies that might have ended up in the dump. And, I like interesting fabrics, a distressed look... earthiness. Appropriate, eh?
Look at the rest of the shop, too. I sell mostly ethnic textiles and vintage supplies.
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| Rachel Biel working with clay, 1989 |
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