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StrongFelt Recently Uploaded Work

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For those able and wanting to support the Western

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Resurfacing here today 👋 Finding that fall stud

The visuals 😀 in this reel really say it all +

First morning of my recent workshop after the firs

Report from the STRONGFELT Studio: One week from t

A capture of what is happening in my hands and min

I’m in deep over here. 🤯 At the STRONGFELT S $I’m in deep over here. 🤯 At the STRONGFELT STUDIO I am developing a language to process and communicate my experience of the Giant’s Causeway and columnar Basalt jointing along the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland. Using extreme differences in shrinkage by strategically embedding densely felted shapes of partial felt I am raising a hollowed surface from a singular plane without resists. So, what’s with the circular hole at the top of the felted columns? For one inspiration, the cooling of the surface of the molten lava flow occurs in centers and that pulling in and contraction creates the central concavity as well as the hexagon fracturing. I’ll get to the other inspiration that has to do with a project that I repurposed that brown/tan wool from in another post. Got to get back with the wool now! BUT, did you see the smaller barb wire-like cracking along the horizontal sections? #lingerlonger #lookcloser #amazing I think I’ll be very busy making this fall and winter! #inspiredbygeology #iloverocks #shrinkageisreal #sculpture #sculptingwool #differentialshrinkage #extremeshrinkage #fibersculpture #raisinghollowform #hollowforms #patternfields #columarjointing #basaltcolumns #processart #fiberart #materialexploration #conceptualcraft @doubleislandstudio$

“Felt small, learn big,” is at the core of my

I’ve taught this technique for creating a patter

Monday morning and jazzed to be in studio. If yo

We had an extraordinary week-long wet felting work

Fossilized textures of corals along the path to wh

New works are in the STRONGFELT SHOP and the 2nd n

The piece of STRONGFELT that I wear most every day

Some notable surface textures of the County Mayo c

Before we came upon the west coast of Ireland and

Here are the three hooped cords (inspired by my PV

Let’s start at the beginning….about 3200 BC. T

A friend and I just spun clockwise around the isla