Why I decided to embroider on rubber….
because my life was hanging on a thread
because it makes ‘sew’ much sense
because I wanted to tread lightly and use what was available
because I needed a challenge
because the act of sewing is meditative
because i fell in love with the process
because rubber is tough and can be seen as masculine
because thread is delicate and an be seen as feminine
because i like the juxtaposition of thread and rubber
because nothing is what it seems.
admin day – sketchbook – mood
“I don’t know why people are so keen to put details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower” Banksy
About the weekend at an art festival- searching for an ostrich, but instead came face to face with a penguin and Jonathan Livingston seagull 😉
a ‘groupie’ moment with legend Valliant Swart
“There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults” Philippe Petit
Easter-egg-hunting
“Stop a moment, cease your work. Look around you” Leo Tolstoy
building ships with my boys in “Minecraft” because it is school holiday
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible” Pablo Picasso
So off I go to:
“Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be” Yoko Ono
A dear friend and fellow creative Hugo van Schalkwyk aka sa_maker recently started a new project where he will be interviewing South African artists for his podcast series.
He has uploaded 3 episodes already and I was lucky to be speaking to him in episode 2. (feels very strange to hear yourself speak, but a fun experience none the less 😉
You can visit/follow or listen to all the episodes here:
http://www.artistspodcast.co.za/
Hope you have a great week everyone.
No Escape 190 x 88 cm
Dear friends,
Just to inform you: the group exhibition Bank 001: Emerging Contemporaries at In Toto gallery has been extended until 13 April 2018.
If you’d like to receive a digital catalogue of all the works on view, feel free to request one from sallyrumball@gmail.com
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Wishing you a great weekend xxx
Dear friends,
While ones work is on display at an exhibition, hanging in a gallery, you are rarely aware of who gets a chance to see it. Who and how someone reacts to it. What they ‘get’ from it.
I am always curious what attracts a person to certain work/s of art.
ATTRACT: early 15c., “draw (objects or persons) to oneself,” also a medical term for the body’s tendency to absorb fluids, nourishment.
ATTRACTION: c. 1400, attraccioun, originally medical, “action or property of drawing (diseased matter) to the surface,” from Old French atraccion (13c.) and directly from Latin attractionem (nominative attractio) “a drawing together,” noun of action from past participle stem of attrahere “to draw, pull” .
Extended by c. 1600 to magnetic forces; figurative sense “quality in a person which draws interest or imagination” is from c. 1600. Meaning “a thing which draws a crowd, interesting or amusing exhibition” is from 1829, a sense that developed in English and soon transferred to the French equivalent of the word.
Sometimes, just sometimes, you hear from such a person.
Ernst Gypsy (Jan Ernst de Wet) saw my work at the “Well worn” exhibition currently showing at the Cavalli Estate….we started a conversation via social media…and then this is what happened (I quote):
 I have taken from Taute’s work a process that engages with familiarities, the abstract of products from other art forms such as music and literature and tried to make it applicable to my skills and understanding.
Read the full version here:
MELODY-MONTAGE-EMBROIDERED-HANNALIE-TAUTE
It’s a very different kind of feature/interview/article….I love his way of looking at the world, thinking about the work, generating ideas, and making it his own.
Embroidered rubber by myself and ‘digital embroidery’ by Jan Ernst de Wet
I quote:
Art acts as a mouthpiece to communicate the similarities between everyday life and the way we perceive, interpret or experience it. It’s not about capturing it accurately, but rather how we bring to life a part of it that someone can resonate or identify with and therefore face a reality about themselves.
I invite you to click on the link: https://ernstgypsy.wixsite.com/ernstgypsy/single-post/2018/03/27/MELODY-MONTAGE-EMBROIDERED-HANNALIE-TAUTE to see the results of his investigation….his interpretations!
P.S and of course I also love the links he published of the music that inspired him. 😉
P.P.S I’d like to leave you with this quote:
“He asked…’Did art get us?” The question for me wasn’t if art got us. The question was “Do we regret that? I know art got us, because if art gets you, you can never be normal. You can’t go anywhere without trying to transform it, you know?”
Patti Smith with Robert Mapplethorpe
