One of my greatest inspirations is Sheila Hicks. She is the artist who best uses fibers as her medium of artistic expression. Here is a her portrait for an exhibition currently being shown in Germany.
Like most people, I find it challenging to select and then view portraits of myself. In the past, whenever it is possible, I use one of my fiber portraits:
With the exhibition Louise Silk: A Patchwork Life, there have been lots of difficult decisions to be made in that regard. There was a portrait of me in the History’s recent newsletter:
I guess it’s okay, but when I’m ninety, like Sheila Hicks, I will have earned the right to not have to use my face but instead the real star of the show, my hands!
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