Melissa Johnson

Beginnings of a sweater.

07.04.2025 14:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m checking out Pinksky…

01.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#pinkskyPost

01.02.2025 15:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How are you dealing? Do you have an amulet to level against what feels like disaster? I admit, I’m shielding my eyes at times (like my cat, Sam) but only in order to be able to focus on work.

29.01.2025 14:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I got new pens in the mail the other day! Some are so fine - like .28 mm, others .38 mm - so I’ve been playing with these drawings. Trying to create folds in the fabric mesh. #drawnthreads #drawing

19.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

…not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended.” (Virginia Woolf, “The Man at the Gate,” The Death of the Moth, and other essays) (Tactile Investigations & Woolf Words)

14.01.2025 13:25 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Early stage of stitching. Establishing pattern and structure. I kind of like it like this but will keep going.

09.01.2025 00:05 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Holiday light extravaganza in Normal IL - every year there are more!

14.12.2024 15:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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27.11.2024 16:31 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A new-to-me painting in the Art Institute of Chicago by Hannah Hoech, “Vegetative” 1950, oil on canvas. ✨✨✨✨

22.11.2024 21:18 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paul Klee, "Fleeing Ghost" (Fliehender Geist), 1929, at the Art Institute of Chicago. I visit with this piece each time, imagining Klee in 1929, nine years after his "Angelus Novus" (1920), Walter Benjamin's "angel of history"

19.11.2024 11:57 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Woman Weaving in Profile” (1898-99) at the Art Institute of Chicago - the gesture of her hands, the thread just visible.

19.11.2024 11:37 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“We are whirled asunder”
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Figuring out how I might use this space…. For now, will introduce myself with some of my
#woolfwords #tactileinvestigations

15.11.2024 14:02 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

“It is a very agreeable thing to have drawn work made of thread…” Gertrude Stein, How to Write #drawnthreads #gertrudestein

15.11.2024 12:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

13.11.2024 03:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0