Karey's Overflow: Felt sculpture of me

About Me

Name: Karey

Location: Colorado, United States

I garden at 8000 feet, cook from scratch, needle felt, read books continually, study history and epistemology, write daily, contemplate spiritual theology, and pursue heirloom arts. I love to paint pictures of living beyond maintenance -- living creatively, discovering beauty in everyday ordinary things. I've been happily married to Monte, who is a geologist, for a long time and still very much in love, even after raising a family and building two houses. Our children are our best friends. Heather is newly married to Bill. Travis, a minister of the fine arts, is married to Sarah. And Dawson is in college. I naturally live first-hand and have recently realized that this is how we educated our children and ourselves. I love to learn about everything, teach, and work with my hands. I love my home, but my life has overflowed -- as a teacher, radio/conference/retreat speaker, author, and most recently as a MOPS mentor. Kareyswan.com is an ideal way for me to share my overflowing life with kindred spirits and those hungering to move beyond maintenance -- to be known by who they are, not just by what they do.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Felt sculpture of me

I read another quote I like -

"I am not young enough to know everything."
--Oscar Wilde

It makes me think of a sculpture of me I did last January. It's from a picture of me taken in high school. The sculpture is almost entirely of wool and I did both needle felting and the wet felt process.

My write up for it, when it was in a gallery was: "As I get older I seem to be coming full circle back to my youth." And now as it's on display, it's title is, "Karey sees anew".

I like to ponder in my heart Jesus saying, "Come to me as a child".

Labels: Home photos, My Art

4 Comments:

Leslie said...: What a wonderful sculpture! I'm just starting out, and would love advice on how to make firm knitted-felted structures. Can you help?; July 25, 2008 8:01 AM
Karey said...: This is not knitted felting. It's using sheep fleece and a barbed needle.; July 25, 2008 8:06 AM
Karey said...: Since I didn't post my process, I'll add to the last comment. There's a wire framework to support the figure with some added foam, so I didn't have to use so much wool. But I needled on all the wool. And then the clothes I did with the wet felt process and needled the clothes on. Then she's bolted and nailed into the board stand so that she's pretty solid. Her hair is from goat mohair I dyed.; July 25, 2008 8:10 AM
Karey said...: There's patterns for knit and felt animals I've done before and stuffed. But needlefelting is more of an 'art'.; July 25, 2008 8:11 AM

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