The Textile Files
I first came across Solveigh Gott’s excellent textile work when I showed one of her knitted pieces in the Knit1, Build 1 exhibition at the Here Gallery two years ago.
I’m a big fan of her project, The Textile Files. It’s a simple but very evocative project: she collects bits of fabric, attaches them to a file card and then blogs the picture with a piece of related text. I was just checking her blog and saw this picture of pins, which immediately got me excited.
Solveigh Gott: Pins from The Textile Files
I started reading the text and thought “hey great, someone else is working with pins!” - and then promptly realised that the reason the text sounded so familiar was because it was written by me! Yep, she was quoting text from this very website - thanks, for the mention, Solveigh, I’m very flattered to have been included in The Textile Files.
But really, fancy not recognising my own writing - I am such a doofus sometimes! Still, it’s not quite as bad as the time I started reading a list of livejournal interests and thought “wow, this sounds like someone I would get on with, I should friend them” before realising that I’d accidentally backpaged and was reading my own interest list. Still, I suppose it’s positive that I instantly liked myself…
It’s always a good thing to instantly like yourself.
Posted by Lindsay on July 28th, 2007 @ 1:47 pm