Hello Spring! Hello watchers!
School is finally done. *le sigh*  My Grad Show went amazingly, and in fact, I won the 2011 Ottawa U sculpture award. ZING!
Here are some pics from the Grad Show of my piece entitled



Yes, that IS a life-sized crochet octopus hanging from the ceiling. It took me three months to create. There is also a semi-victorianesque dress comprising of unbleached cotton, embroidery, crochet, fur pelts, twigs, embroidery hoops and metallic thread. I guess you could try to take this all in, in a direct kind of way, but as a female artist, the octopus, to me anyway, represents the threat of the female craft being perceived as high art. It's all very spooky when women put their minds to things, let alone make crafty things that she creates as high art.  </sarcasm>




If you'd like to see more shots, please mosey on over to my personal art blog at edithchartier.blogspot.com





These are some of the inspirations behind my 18th century costumes, and perhaps they can be of use to you as well.
_{I'm starting to dislike photobucket. Photobucket seems to like getting rid of all the titles of the artworks when I upload them as well as change their order, which makes it a very tedious job to rename all of them. So if anyone has an idea for a better alternative (free would be lovely), please let me know!}



New pictures have been uploaded into my stock photo account. My friend Rob took pictures of me wearing a Greek-ish costume holding various water receptacles. Hope you enjoy!





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