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and family members as holiday gifts. it is the illustrated and handwritten lyrics to “origin of love” from “hedwig and the angry inch”. very lucky people got to have the children serenade them after they had opened their book. you might just want to put the song on spotify.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2884" src="2015/01/andthenfireshotdown_w-500-h-389.jpg" alt="andthenfireshotdown.jpg" width="500" height="389"/></a></p><p>also, if you have the option to view in a two-page spread, it does look nicer.</p><p>now that everyone has received their books, we wanted to make the children’s effort available to everyone. we think they did a beautiful job. ben and i literally cried every time one of them “turned in” a drawing for the project. and claudia did a LOT of writing.</p><p>enjoy.</p><p><a href="2015/01/originoflove.pdf">“origin of love” handwritten and illustrated by claudia and béla (PDF)</a></p><div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled 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<div class="entry-content"> <p>i have futzed around with the pages presented at the top of this blog, and you might notice that the category that was just for knitting and stitching work has become two categories — one from a decade ranging from 2003 to 2013, and one that is current. i’ve mentioned here recently (relative to my posting here at all) that our household and family have undergone some changes in dynamics and so has life as far as knitting and stitching is concerned.</p><p>the biggest change is that almost everything i am working on now or have planned as far as original knitting is concerned (not stuff like <a href="2014/01/24/four-new-christmas-stockings/">christmas stockings</a> and homey stuff necessarily) is collaborative work.</p><p>the first significant thing i completed in 2014, with my collaborative partner, tucker collins, was made in response to a proposal i had been asked to submit to the <a href="http://www.collagefestival.com/">COLLAGE festival,</a> a specifically collaborative and low-budget arts and performance festival in philadelphia.</p><p>tucker is a scientist and is perhaps a little didactic, and he had been trying to explain what metafemales were, and it soon became apparent to me that knitting one might not take much longer than listening to his explanation itself, and possibly be more enjoyable. he understood, up until the very end, more than i did about the syndrome, and i’m sure he still does. but he succeeded in teaching me, eventually, what it was, and how we were expressing it in our piece.</p><p>and, this was the first thing we knit together, which was very satisfying, as i had been carrying needles and yarn in my bag in hopes of catching tucker at a weak moment in which i could teach him to knit, since he was seventeen. it only took two years. he has gotten very good in the past year. you may not be able to see it perfectly from this photo, but that’s a hell of a way to freehand a pair of human feet, much less female genitalia.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2872" src="2014/06/complete_in_yard_metafemale_w-500-h-666.jpg" alt="complete_in_yard_metafemale" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>here was the statement we made about the piece for <a href="http://www.collagefestival.com/">COLLAGE</a>:</p><p><strong>In placental mammals, males have one X chromosome, while females have two. The body compensates for the presence of two X chromosomes in females by randomly inactivating one of them during development. The pattern of inactivation is maintained, and thus a form of mosaicism, visible or otherwise, is exhibited. A well-known example of the visibility of this mosaicism is the calico cat, whose pattern is a result of this phenomena. Less, or not visible at all, is the mosaicism present in all females.</strong></p><p><strong>In Metafemales, who occur in about one in a thousand human women, the mosaic formed during development contains not just two X’s, but three. Still, despite the extra X chromosome, only one of them can be expressed, and instead two must be inactivated. The triple-X condition will go unnoticed in most cases, the syndrome being nearly symptomless.</strong></p><p><strong>This project depicts genetic mosaicism in human females with Triple X-syndrome (Metafemales). In this knitted sculpture, the inactivated chromosomes are shown as hard, compact articles (beads, buttons, etc.) representing their suppressed potential. (suppressed information IS always more interesting than what’s out in the open, isn’t it?)</strong></p><p><strong>The expression of the active chromosomes are shown with knitted red and blue V’s, like small messages in transit or arrowheads in flight.</strong></p><p><strong>Our Metafemale has taken on the stance of the Hanged Man from the Tarot, who is suspended upside down in order to meditate on life. On the molecular level, she has an augmented level of suspended potential for activity than normal women, and so on a greater level she herself has become this alternate symbol of suspension.</strong></p><p><strong>For more information on Triple X-syndrome and female mosaicism: <a href="http://ebookee.org/Females-Are-Mosaics-X-Inactivation-and-Sex-Differences-in-Disease_130415.html" rel="nofollow">http://ebookee.org/Females-Are-Mosaics-X-Inactivation-and-Sex-Differences-in-Disease_130415.html</a></strong></p><p>***</p><p>so this is still a very new thing — finding a person with whom you do not necessarily want to sit and make things along side of, but with whom you want to make things TOGETHER. it is imperfect and it is not smooth.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2874" src="2014/06/screamingbw_tuckandam_w-500-h-375.jpg" alt="screamingbw_tuckandam" width="500" height="375"/></a></p><p>his timelines do not work like mine do. my stress, when things are down to the wire, has me expending a lot of energy talking about how we need to just give up. he never wants to. we finish things. and we are working on things we were working on together a year ago, still. 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class="entry-content"> <p>krampuslauf philadelphia has become something of a full-time job, and it’s certainly not quite the “seasonal” event it was. well it is. but there’s always more, it seems! and that is how i like it.</p><p>let’s see. you can certainly check out this year’s clip video:</p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gm8eVc3L2ow?version=3&rel=0&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></span><p>which is twice as long as last year’s because we didn’t JUST have krampuslauf this year… we had SNOWY SLEETY krampuslauf (here’s PHL 17’s lovely photo essay)</p><p>but we also had a GALLERY EXHIBITION of artifacts from these first three years of laufing in philly. our relationship with iMPeRFeCT gallery is the best thing that happened to krampuslauf this year. </p><p>ben and i promoted the exhibit by spending nearly two hours of dumbounded delight on g-town radio with ed feldman. a true gift. have a long listen.</p><p>the exhibition ended with <a href="https://vimeo.com/86675343">a lovely closing dinner</a> and then an amazing sight: das mädchen (do you know about das mädchen? you have a lot of catching up to do!) <a href="https://vimeo.com/86288409">leaving the gallery</a>. both of these videos are from artist gary reed.</p><p>and we are extremely grateful to have been given a $2000 grant from penn treaty special services district for krampuslauf philadelphia. claudia thanked them with this rather astounding piece of artwork which i had a pretty hard time handing over.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2863" alt="PENNTREATYthankyouart" src="2014/03/penntreatythankyouart_w-500-h-375.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a></p><p>and, looking both back and forwards, we also have believe it tour’s video of the 2013 lauf (congrats mike and diane on your wedding!)</p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lmtlj3nPP_g?version=3&rel=0&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></span><p>AND will soon be having the amazing experience of a maskmaking workshop in philly with arun once-was-zygoat, the one-man inspiration for krampuslauf philadelphia! that’s in just a few weeks! so… with more irons in the fire than ever in addition to a more peopled household, expect fewer posts here than ever before — but expect they will be great ones!!</p><div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div 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and it’s march, so it must be time for me to tell you how krampuslauf went.</span></span></p> <p class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="category/amber/" rel="category tag">amber</a>, <a href="category/knitting-textiles/exhibiting-and-curating/" rel="category tag">exhibiting and curating</a>, <a href="category/holidays/" rel="category tag">holidays</a> </p> </div><!-- .entry-info --> </div><!-- #post-## --> <div id="post-2842" class="post-2842 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-family category-holidays category-knitting-textiles"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="2014/01/24/four-new-christmas-stockings/" rel="bookmark">four new christmas stockings</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="2014/01/24/four-new-christmas-stockings/" title="8:27 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">January 24, 2014</span></a> <span class="comments-link"><span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on four new christmas stockings</span></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2856" alt="fourkidstockings_belafront" src="2014/01/fourkidstockings_belafront_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>late october or so, it occurred to me to make the big guys xmas stockings. almost simultaneously, i recognized my longstanding dissatisfaction with the knitted stockings i’d made béla and claudia when they’d first arrived, and decided to make new ones to match the boys’.</p><p>it did seem a pretty clear example of holiday mission creep, to want to make four entire new stockings by christmas when i had started around halloween. i did not get them all done. asa’s and béla’s were done. claudia’s was finished christmas eve day and was still damp enough from blocking that santa, worried that her gifts would block it out of shape, just left the stocking draped over her stack.</p><p>tucker’s stocking got cast on on xmas eve day, but only out of stubbornness. on christmas morning, he had gifts in a store-bought stocking from target chosen by our friend liz. i finished his stocking about a week ago, and it is out now still because some of his birthday gifts are in it.</p><p>asa’s stocking was first, fastest, and easiest.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2844" alt="asa_wholething" src="2014/01/asa_wholething_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>it’s also the only one of the four blocked with the heel folded at the side; the name chart and octopus chart were both small enough that i doubled them and there is one on either side of the stocking. it’s the only one like that. (thus far.)</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2845" alt="asa_button" src="2014/01/asa_button_w-500-h-375.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a></p><p>both big boys have a scottish military button on the loop at the top of their stocking.</p><p>béla did not have any single thing in particular that he wanted on his stocking, but was willing to choose from a number of suggestions, eventually going with the hattifatteners from the moomin books, which we are reading. i found this chart online, made for mittens, and it was a bear to make. but it came out so great.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2846" alt="bela_hattifatteners" src="2014/01/bela_hattifatteners_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>it was, however, so long that, if i was basing the size of the new stocking’s on asa’s completed one, i now had no room for the name band. at least not on the front. so béla has a vertical name band on the back of his stocking.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2847" alt="bela_verticalnameband" src="2014/01/bela_verticalnameband_w-500-h-696.jpg" width="500" height="696"/></a></p><p>he also has a tassle on his toe.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2848" alt="bela_tassletoe" src="2014/01/bela_tassletoe_w-500-h-375.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a></p><p>claudia was just too obvious — we had to make her a pink stocking with hoogah on it!! i say we because tucker was called into service to chart hoogah for me…</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2849" alt="claudia_hoogahchartbytuck" src="2014/01/claudia_hoogahchartbytuck_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>absolutely perfect.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2850" alt="claudia_hoog" src="2014/01/claudia_hoog_w-500-h-686.jpg" width="500" height="686"/></a></p><p>the thing about tucker is, if you say “i want to make/do something for you, how would you like it to be?” he will give you a baffling and ambitious answer, but he will also be happy to foot part of the bill. he wanted a magpie — so, he charted a magpie.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2853" alt="tucker_magpie" src="2014/01/tucker_magpie_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>his magpie also has another of the scottish military buttons i’d gotten, in its beak.</p><p>we were both of pretty strong mind that tucker’s stocking should be grey, and while all the other stockings had name bands bounded with black check, we felt just as strongly that tucker’s box needed to be more open. so it is.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2855" alt="tucker_openboxandquote" src="2014/01/tucker_openboxandquote_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>he also wanted, on the foot of the stocking, a quote by mogwat the magpie from the book he is currently reading the children, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Perloo-The-Bold-Avi/dp/0590110039">perloo the bold</a>. <em>Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. </em>tuck charted that too; he did not use any printed charted alphabet, he simply made it up on his own. there’s no way to get a photo of the entire quote, but trust me, it is lovely.</p><p>i am working on ben’s stocking now, i know what mine will be as well, and actually tucker and i are doing some research on something for his and asa’s daddy. i am sure that by the time those are finished, i will know who is next.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2857" alt="fourkidstockings_belaback" src="2014/01/fourkidstockings_belaback_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded" id="like-post-wrapper-13765283-2842-56e0b23ee92c3" data-src="http://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=13765283&post_id=2842&origin=voluptuousstoicism.wordpress.com&obj_id=13765283-2842-56e0b23ee92c3" data-name="like-post-frame-13765283-2842-56e0b23ee92c3"><h3 class="sd-title">Like this:</h3><div class="likes-widget-placeholder post-likes-widget-placeholder" style="height:55px"><span class="button"><span>Like</span></span> <span class="loading">Loading...</span></div><span class="sd-text-color"></span><a class="sd-link-color"></a></div></div> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <div class="entry-info"> <p class="comments-link"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on four new christmas stockings</span></span></p> <p class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="category/family/" rel="category tag">family</a>, <a href="category/holidays/" rel="category tag">holidays</a>, <a href="category/knitting-textiles/" rel="category tag">knitting, textiles</a> </p> </div><!-- .entry-info --> </div><!-- #post-## --> <div id="post-2775" class="post-2775 post type-post status-publish format-standard post-password-required hentry category-exhibiting-and-curating category-knitting-textiles"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="2013/11/15/ofrenda/" rel="bookmark">Protected: ofrenda</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="2013/11/15/ofrenda/" title="12:22 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 15, 2013</span></a> <span class="comments-link"><span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Protected: ofrenda</span></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <form action="/" class="post-password-form" method="post"><p>This content is password protected. 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href="2012/11/05/genre-stories-are-the-character-actors-of-the-literature-world/">i’ve certainly mentioned</a> <a href="2012/08/08/find-wild-abandon-in-the-conformity/">here in prior postings</a> that i’ve been editing a special edition of the literary magazine <em>birkensnake</em> over the past year. our volume has come to fruition, amongst its sister volumes — all quite unusual in format — and our own <em>wild conformations</em> issue was the highlight of a gallery exhibit at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mwfa5015">most wanted fine art</a> in pittsburgh a few weeks ago. the other special issues of birkensnake 6 which were completed were also on display.</p><p><a href="2013/11/jasoningallery.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2806" alt="jasoningallery" src="2013/11/jasoningallery_w-500-h-375.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a></p><p><a href="http://www.rawartists.org/jasonsauer">gallerist and demolition derby driver jason sauer</a> was the illustrator for the <em>wild conformations</em> issue and all of the illustrations for the issue were available as coloring pages at the gallery opening, which was going on concurrent with pittsburgh’s first dios de los muertos celebration.</p><p><a href="2013/11/grownupcoloring.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2798" alt="grownupcoloring" src="2013/11/grownupcoloring_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>sauer had also reproduced his illustrations for <em>wild conformations</em> as paintings on metal, and these were on display in the gallery as well.</p><p><a href="2013/11/bakerypainting.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2795" alt="bakerypainting" src="2013/11/bakerypainting_w-500-h-666.jpg" width="500" height="666"/></a></p><p>there was a catch, though, if you wanted to HAVE a copy of any of the special <em>birkensnake 6</em> issues, which were all produced by artists (our own designed by edie fake) and in very short supply. if you wanted to walk away with a copy, you had to do a public reading from whichever volume you wanted. these events are still going on at the gallery throughout december. here are some videos of readings:</p><p>amasked dia de los muertos observer reads from a romance story featured in <em>wild conformations</em> issue:</p><p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/msUDs-7TwaA?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></span> </span></b></p><p>here’s author rachel piccari, whose work is featured in another of the <em>birkensnake 6</em> iterations (one that i believe is not quite ready yet), reading from the <em>wild conformations</em> issue. piccari got on a bus from philadelphia to pittsburgh. right after the event she got back on a bus back to philadelphia. hardcore.</p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"></span><p>and here’s jason reading, with baby rowdy.</p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"></span><p><a href="http://birkensnake.com/issue6wildconformations.php">the wild conformations issue itself is online in content</a>, although you don’t get to see the beautiful funky presentation,</p><p>and my photos from the evening are here. </p><p>in the very week last year when we were letting submitting authors know their proposals had been chosen for the issue, one editor (liz) and one author (jamie) became parents. this gallery event, and the first sight of the completed issues, happened the week both of those babies turned one.</p><p>i am grateful to <a href="http://birkensnake.com/">birkensnake</a>, joanna ruocco and brian conn, liz hahn, jason sauer and nina gibbs of most wanted fine art, lisa annelouise rentz, <a 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fairy money (four so far) on those dolls.</p><p>she wanted a monster high costume, he eventually chose a ghostbusters costume (having just seen the movie in a hotel in richmond, virginia) and they enjoyed their dance school party, regular school party, and trick-or-treating.</p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2763" alt="trickortreating" src="2013/10/trickortreating_w-300-h-225.jpg" width="300" height="225"/></a></p><p><a href="#"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2764" alt="halloweenfriends" src="2013/10/halloweenfriends_w-300-h-225.jpg" width="300" height="225"/></a></p><p>but.</p><p>tucker has been reading d’aulaires’ greek mythology to claudia since the summer. 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