tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87317622245249120342024-02-19T00:06:44.189-08:00poesie grenadineKate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.comBlogger349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-44260077296524785532017-02-07T10:24:00.002-08:002017-02-07T10:24:59.720-08:00Tear Tracts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I finished another of my romantic embroidered blouses today. While I wait for the opportune moment to shoot it, here is a silly sketch I did today for a personal zine and an ongoing project all about crying. I accidentally left out one "dik" in the bracketed text but I think this sort of makes it? Something to cry over, maybe.</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-86209701220582821312017-02-05T04:40:00.000-08:002017-02-05T04:40:18.172-08:00Bad Plant Mama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My colleagues got me a fancy <a href="https://magma-shop.com/products/9781856699044">Magma sketchbook</a> for my birthday, and I've been filling its pages with some speed. It's a revelation to me how quick sketching is compared to the labour of love that is embroidery.</div>
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I've been feeling a little glum this past week. First and foremost, I hold the weather responsible; it has been grey and drizzly most of the time.</div>
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A symptom of depression which I didn't expect and which I didn't experience before I entered the world of work was feeling constantly tired. It is increasingly difficult to get up in the morning; the thought that gets me through the day is the possibility of sleep soon.</div>
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There are other side effects; over the last few weeks my bedroom became what I can only describe as a "depression pit". It got to the stage where I knew there were things I needed to use in there somewhere, but where they were was another question, as was summoning the energy to find out. I didn't want to see friends (especially of an evening, when doing so would take me away from the bed base camp), yet felt intensely lonely.</div>
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This was by no means a very serious depression, only impinging slightly on my life, but I thought it was best to be mindful and act. I took a duvet day on Thursday, went back to bed for an hour or so, then tackled the detritus of my room, and felt considerably better.</div>
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My plants don't seem to be enjoying the dark days either; several are rather droopy. To turn this on its head and avoid depression-exacerbated feelings of guilt and inadequacy as a #plantmama, I did a little drawing in my sketchbook.</div>
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I might do a series of related drawings; this one could be a good fit for several zines in the works. For now though, it's back to embroidery.Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-48857746910851653792017-01-30T14:59:00.000-08:002017-01-30T14:59:06.845-08:00Self Care Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My brother got me Posca Pens for my birthday and I got straight to work with them.</div>
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The first little sketch I completed was an idea to be embroidered and eventually wind up as a t shirt design. I may still do this, but with Valentine's Day coming up, I began to think of other ways that you can show yourself a little love (I fully intend to buy myself some roses and eat something heart-shaped on Valentine's Day, by the way).</div>
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It's so easy to be a workaholic or put all your time, energy and love into relationships with others. It's so easy to not extend that care to yourself. This series is a little riposte to that. I might make a slightly personal collage/illustrative/stitched zine featuring the series called "Quiet Enjoyment" after a covenant of tenancy which tickled my fancy... I'm collecting unusual phrases and intriguing etymologies.</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-3637323354937041982017-01-22T10:58:00.001-08:002017-01-22T10:58:24.328-08:00Strength and WeaknessYesterday was my twenty sixth birthday.<br />
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Birthdays can be difficult.<br />
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Not because I fear growing old, but because I have a tendency to look back. I consider the previous year and see how very little I have achieved, and, because I am a human and we tend to zero in on pain, how unhappy I was for parts of it.<br />
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I also had a slightly stressful week, combined with feeling quite burnt out.<br />
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Yesterday evening we had a little soiree of sorts in the new studio I am sharing with three artist friends. We invited attendees to stitch "talking pillows", watched "The Pillow Book", and drank sake with cherry juice. We ate Japanese snacks and I wore my faded and threadbare kimono. We chatted and giggled.<br />
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And it was lovely.<br />
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It was perhaps the most unusual birthday party I've had, and will stay in my memory for quite some time.<br />
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Last year I was descending into a horrible depression around the time of my birthday, which wouldn't lift 'til early March.<br />
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Mid-late January can be a very bleak time. Post-Christmas, cash and energy is low, waistbands have expanded, it's the coldest it's likely to be all year, and, though the days are getting longer, it's not by very much at all. I think I, like many others, may suffer from a touch of the Seasonal Affective Disorder.<br />
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I've made a deal with myself, though; I'm tough. A lot of people might smirk at that, knowing, as I do, that I'm a bit of a doormat, I'm timid, insecure, needy (the catalogue of failings goes on and on...), but I <i>am </i>tough. I've got grit. I wouldn't still be here otherwise. I'm tenacious, and when I want something, I dig my heels in and get to work. I'm the little engine that could, and I laugh in the face of the spectre of mental illness.<br />
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Self-mythologising aside, I had a point here; I made a deal with myself that I wouldn't fall into a depression, I wouldn't have what seems to be an almost-annual late February/early March melt down (it always seems to be around the time of my father's birthday, poor man) and need to take time off work to recover.<br />
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I struck a bargain with myself that I was allowed to feel sad (I've had some disappointments lately) and I was allowed to express this, but I wasn't allowed to beat myself up about it too much. I still find myself beating myself up on a daily basis; that's just the way my wonky little mind works.<br />
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I have, however, been taking the time to congratulate myself too. Keeping an "achievements" journal coupled with daily tasks which I <i>do not </i>berate myself about not ticking off. Coupled with this is more girly forms of self care (read: lots of Lush from my bath bombs dealer best mate), and just chilling out a bit more about my limitations, or at the very least attempting to. Learning to enjoy my own company and not relying on others for my happiness so much, which is an achievement in itself.<br />
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When you've lived with mental illness for almost half your life, you get quite adept at taking care of yourself. Let's face it; the health care system won't (I can't help but smirk at the government's self-congratulatory move to pump a little money into mental health care when it has been cut disproportionately to even the NHS at large).<br />
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In two weeks I will have the fourth of six half an hour Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sessions in which I am only allowed to focus on one aspect of my illness, and in which I have been shown and told things I am already familiar with, having spent my entire adult life and most of my teens in contact with therapists. And this is the best a struggling NHS can offer; it's fast track, a (supposedly) six week waiting list as opposed to waiting up to eighteen months for the traditional route to NHS therapy. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is cost effective; it has fast-acting results. It's the best a bullied NHS can offer.<br />
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So you can see why those experiencing mental distress need to take matters into their own hands.<br />
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Telling myself I'm not allowed to be ill may sound counter-intuitive. I am trying to dupe myself. I am also trying to re-contextualise myself away from an ill person, which is a light which, wrongly or rightly, I have been cast in by mental health professionals, friends, family members, boyfriends, school, university, colleagues and employers, and myself.<br />
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It's akin to a practice suggested by therapists to patients who experience voice hearing; only allowing the voices to visit for a short period of time each day. It's also akin to some practices of (whisper the dreaded word) mindfulness, for example allowing experiences, feelings, thoughts and anxieties to wash over you like gentle whale song waves.<br />
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It makes me feel in control, and by making this decision, I feel I am able to make other decisions about my life.<br />
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I haven't "beaten" mental illness; I don't like the way in which illnesses, from madness to cancer, are characterised as video game bosses which need to be eliminated in order to win the game and ascend to a higher level in which illness does not touch one's life. Illness is a part of every person's life, and a part of life's rich tapestry.<br />
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At about nineteen or twenty a mental health professional asked me if I thought I'd be so creative if I wasn't mentally ill (quite a preposterous and infuriating hypothesis, but that's by the by). I said I'd rather be well; I would rather not live through hell and have to rebuild myself piece by piece and in an entirely new pattern.<br />
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I don't feel that way any more.<br />
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If I'd never been ill, if I'd never been a door away from death, I don't think I would have such an appreciation for, such a hunger for, such a love of life.<br />
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I would not be able to empathise with people who have struggled, coming from a comfortably white middle class background of immense privilege; even with people who were a little bit different, who were outsiders.<br />
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I am creative; I am not quite right in the head; I am sad; I am anxious. I am also impulsive and mature, messy and a perfectionist, a friend and a daughter and a sister and a worker and, and, and...<br />
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We are all many things to many different people, and most of all to ourselves. We are always learning and growing.<br />
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I now look on my long and illustrious history as a mental health patient through the lens of a Louise Bourgeois embroidery:<br />
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Most people have to take hallucinogens to experience some of the intense beauty I have experienced; I got it for free. As for the intense horror of some of the other experiences, once you have lived through them, nothing else can really touch you.<br />
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The wonderful thing about having to rebuild yourself piece by piece is that you can be whatever you want to be once you've forgiven yourself, once you've got over your shame. You are human Lego, and you realise that you can take many shapes and sizes over the course of your life, and from situation to situation.<br />
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This is not to say that you are a chameleon, a master of reinvention; you are not a Madonna or a David Bowie, fickle or characterless.<br />
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You merely do not have to be what was expected of you. You do not have to be what you expected of yourself. You can peel off the labels that were assigned to you; "shy child"; "unstable"; "uptight"; "high strung".<br />
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Once you let go of what is expected of you, you are free to live truly, and simply, and honestly.<br />
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I think I have very recently gotten over my shame. I am still yet to forgive myself; I know this because I take the blame even for things which have nothing to do with me. But I am getting there. I am beginning to accept my anxiety, my clingyness, my impossibly high standards for everyone and everything, my emotionality, my introspection and over-analysing as parts of me, and perhaps in some small way as strengths as well as weaknesses.<br />
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As an artist I have always been fascinated with notions of strength and weakness; the dichotomy of hard and soft. I want to prove that the two are not mutually exclusive, to myself and for my own peace of mind as much as to anyone else.<br />
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I am planning and hope to soon make a start on my first art quilt. I have some flying geese batik fat quarters, and I want to arrange them in a flying geese formation. The gaps I will fill with squares exploring a different derogatory phrase around softness/weakness; "She wouldn't say boo to a goose"; "Yella bellied"; "Big girl's blouse", with the last square featuring the embroidery below, proving, as in the film <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amélie</span></span>, that shy people would have the last laugh.<br />
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I'm sure these ideas will keep percolating and developing. I look forward to sharing the results with you as they appear.<br />
<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-83457335196176621332017-01-17T14:11:00.000-08:002017-01-17T14:11:00.238-08:00Resolve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I have made very simple New Year's Resolutions this year.</div>
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<li>Go outside every day. (I know, it's the bare minimum, but I have been known to stay inside for days at a time.)</li>
<li>No screens at bed time. (The digital radio I got for Christmas is helping with this, and I've noticed a lot of benefits: sleeping better, and reading BOOKS, which I love and have missed.)</li>
<li>Draw more. (I'm not very good and I want to get better and I've got to a level of proficiency with needlework now where it's often no longer relaxing to stitch.)</li>
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I am by no means a prolific artist; having chosen embroidery as my primary medium rather rules that out. But the first drawing below, begun at an "artist's salon" with dear friends Kat and Cheri, was positively speedily turned out, at least for me.</div>
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It's also the drawing I'm proudest of since at least my A Level days. Maybe being around infinitely more talented artists rubbed off on me; maybe the steady supply of cocktails loosened me up. Either way, I'm happy with the results.</div>
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This busy drawing isn't quite so successful; maybe I bit off a bit more than I can chew. But it does feature my intention for this year; "2017 is the year of skin care and communication", which I saw as a text post on Tumblr and liked so much I turned it into a fortune cookie. I somewhat wish I'd changed communication to "kindness" but I could do with challenging myself to communicate more effectively.</div>
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The drawing is loosely self-care focused, something I've been getting awfully good at lately. For me, that means surrounding myself with greenery and flowers (or sometimes bathing in them, as these rose buds from my bath bomb indicate), drinking lots of jasmine tea, a recent obsession which helps me feel nourished and grounded, and a little superstition via rose quartz. When I was going through a rough patch years ago a friend pressed a chunk of rose quartz into my hand, telling me it was good for balance and healing. Though I felt sceptical about this at the the time, it has had a symbolic significance for me ever since, and reminds me of her, and so I keep the crystal with my house plants on my dresser.</div>
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(I always thought myself on the lower end of the "Ex-Dartington-Student-Hippy Scale", but reading this post back, it seems I haven't escaped Totnes unscathed... perhaps it's spending so much time with other Darties of late?)</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-61568147273348181172016-12-31T08:58:00.000-08:002016-12-31T08:58:22.975-08:00A Busy Old Year and a Happy New OneIt would be easy to focus on the negative in 2016, so I'm going to focus on the positive instead.<br />
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Highlights of the year for me have included (in no particular order):<br />
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<u>Being An Associate Artist of Daily Life Ltd</u><br />
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Leading workshops/performing/diagnosing diagnosis at The Walthamstow Garden Party, The William Morris Gallery, and The Wellcome Collection.<br />
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I could go on but I'd best leave it there; there are canapes to roll, cocktails to shake, and my face to paint (just putting this together and looking back at everything I've done this year has made me feel tired; and I left a lot out!)<br />
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Suffice to say I hope anyone who finds their way to this post has had a wonderful year; I wish you an even better new one, and if you've been a part of my 2016, thank you for making it so special. <span style="background-color: #fffff8; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">♥</span>Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-70179774614098166782016-11-18T08:13:00.000-08:002016-11-18T08:30:14.447-08:00Away With the Fairies Embroidered Blouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I present to you the Away With the Fairies embroidered autumnal blouse, featuring split stitch text, padded satin, long and short stitch and bullion knot fly agaric on the back of the collar, and long and short stitch mushrooms on the front, with straight stitch grass. The model is the beautiful Katrina Bautista. Here are the Nikon 35mm shots, as well as a handful of test shots we took on Kat's iPhone. The Fuji Instax and (extremely expired) Polaroid prints are still to come. I am embroidering a blouse for each season; next up is obviously Winter. This blouse will soon be up for sale on my Tictail.</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-59832764239561945392016-11-17T03:50:00.002-08:002016-11-17T03:50:52.179-08:00Highlands Away II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the roll of 35mm film I took in the Highlands with my Nikon SLR. Still getting to grips with using film again but this was a fun little project.<br />
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-91843429636114746742016-11-02T11:26:00.000-07:002016-11-02T11:26:49.971-07:00Highlands Away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Last week I recharged my batteries in the Scottish Highlands. This mostly involved drinking, eating (oh so much eating), idyllic walks, not being able to go outside without seeing about three sea eagles, and playing with my new toy; a Fuji Instax Mini 8 camera. The results are below. </div>
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The Mini 8 is marketed mostly as a selfie capturing camera, and I can't wait to use it for portraits/fashion shoots I have planned, as it wasn't great at capturing the landscape. I also took two rolls of 35mm film, one with my Nikon SLR and one with my Lomography Fisheye. It was fun to shoot film again after just using my phone for so long, and I plan to continue doing so.</div>
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I have read the clickbait phrase "25 is the hardest year of your life" at numerous points over the past year. I can only speak personally, but I would tend to disagree; I got my quarter life crisis out of the way early (at the age of 19).<br />
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I think I know who I am and what I want... it's just a question of how to get it.<br />
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That's not to say things haven't been, and aren't, difficult - they are. But I'm willing to do the work and I know that things will get better. Life has been busy and hard and so I haven't posted on here since July (wow), but I have been making and doing and I want to share all of it with the world more.<br />
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And so, here is a piece harking back to my eternal occupation with language around flowers and negative connotations.<br />
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To find my wallflower, I literally typed "plant that looks sad" into Google. It came up with this rather pathetic looking hydrangea. I translated it into a pen and ink sketch and then this embroidery/pencil hoop art.<br />
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If you would be interested in purchasing the piece, it is £50 posted to the UK, and is backed with black felt, and can be hung on the wall straight away. Drop me a line at katerolison@googlemail.com if you'd like a wallflower for your wall.<br />
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Next will come a fungi-themed hoop in a similar style.<br />
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After my lengthy absence (and only NINE blog posts this year compared to 78 last year, crikey) I really would love to write more often, but I don't want to put any pressure on myself, either. Attention spans, including my own, have become so much shorter in the short space of a few years, and it's so much easier to Instagram everything than be considered and exploratory and think things through. I think it might be helpful and fulfilling to begin doing so again, though.<br />
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Plans for blog posts in my inimitable old 1000 words+ style include a post considering poet and lunatic John Clare and his incarceration and escape from the asylum that is incidentally now my mother's place of work (though no longer an asylum!), and round ups of a few work shops I've run of late.<br />
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Watch this space; good things are coming. I write that as much for me as for you.<br />
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-71922261416085898282016-07-29T05:15:00.000-07:002016-07-29T06:21:42.001-07:00Romantic Blouses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't posted for a while. Life has been busy, and I've been going with the flow a lot more. I've still been making work and been involved in arts projects, but in this age of Instagram I find it easier tp share my goings-on over there - I'm @poesiegrenadine if you fancy a follow. I imagine I will be posting here little and (slightly more) often going forward; I'm really enjoying the visual at the moment and working on lots of different things.</div>
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My current big personal project has already been a work of many months; a series of Romantic-with-a-capital-R-inspired embroidered blouses. They are inspired by the Cottingley fairies, botanical illustration, English forests and woodlands, and, as you might have guessed, the Romantic poets. I'd wanted to make them for a long time and wanted to have them finished by the summer, but I am only halfway through the second! I think this may become a project that is ready for next summer. I'm eager to get started on some smaller embroideries once blouse #2 is out of the way.</div>
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Below are the blouses so far. I am available for commissions: please email me at katerolison@googlemail.com</div>
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My new year's resolution for 2015 was to get over my fear of drawing. Despite going to art school, as of January 2015 I had seldom drawn since my A Levels save to sketch an outline on to fabric to be embroidered over.<br />
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The resolution got off to a slow start, with just the few sketches below completed in a very amateurish way, even with my Mum booking us both on to a four week life drawing class recently.<br />
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Below are the sketches completed solo and in collaboration with others on the four week "<a href="http://themill-coppermill.org/2016/05/17/make-your-mark-drawing-classes-june-2016/">Mark Your Mark</a>" life drawing class, which I heartily recommend to artists of all abilities.<br />
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Myself and artists <a href="http://katrinabautista1.wix.com/katrinaymsonbautista">Katrina Bautista</a> and <a href="http://www.cherismith.co.uk/selected-works.html">Cheri Smith</a> have started something of an artist's salon to exchange ideas, collaborate, and draw together. The most recent session resulted in the drawing below, the first drawing I am truly proud of since my A Level days. I sometimes find being with such talented artists intimidating, but these two inspire me, and I'm really excited to share the zine we are working on together.</div>
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I've finally done what I've been meaning to do for a very long time and had "You Didn't Cry" tiniest soft enamel brass based label pins made. You can buy one (or several) from <a href="http://poesiegrenadine.tictail.com/product/you-didnt-cry-enamel-pinbrooch-pre-order">here</a>.</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-80054089799801199382016-03-08T12:48:00.000-08:002016-03-08T12:48:21.465-08:00Letting In The LightI very much wanted to write a post for International Women's Day, but was at a bit of a loss until I was mentioned in a lovely tweet by my friends over at Daily Life Ltd.<br />
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This decided it for me; my International Women's Day blog post will be dedicated to the women I share the stage with at Daily Life Ltd's light box installation in the square outside Stratford Library, <i>Letting In The Light</i>, which is on until the end of the month if you fancy taking it in (it's worth it; these photographs don't do the scale or the luminance anywhere near justice).</div>
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I have to start with Bobby Baker, of course. Several of her diary drawings, completed between 1997 - 2008 and began while she was a day patient at a mental health centre.</div>
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This illuminated illustration particularly spoke to me. It's called <i>The Daily Stream of Life</i>, and features Bobby's mind as a river through which life flows, and she in life, sometimes in a rowing boat, sometimes in a canoe, sometimes in a fancier vessel altogether.</div>
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After a brief blip in my mental health due to an unfortunate series of circumstances, I feel I am bouncing back to a place where I can leisurely row along on the river of life, enjoying taking in the scenery and getting fresh air as I go.</div>
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Liz Atkin is an artist, advocate and speaker who raises awareness of, and promotes recovery from, compulsive skin picking through her art. The work featured in <i>Letting In The Light</i>, <i>Lavish</i>, transforms an illness which dominated Liz's life for more than twenty years into something really quite beautiful.</div>
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My favourite piece in the exhibition involved one of my very favourite things; word play.</div>
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By Jane McCormick, the piece has a back story that is <a href="http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/jane-mccormick?item=2152">well worth reading</a>.</div>
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An honorary mention goes to male artist (gasp!) Anthony Woods who created a joyous ode to fashion icon Iris Apfel:</div>
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<i>Letting In The Light</i> is well worth the trip to a slightly unassuming corner of East London; brighten up your evening, and discover the truth behind Groucho Marx's quip, "Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light".</div>
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Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-80029754453719251362016-03-06T11:06:00.000-08:002016-03-06T11:06:29.613-08:00Abnormal Feeling of Wellbeing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I have a huge backlog of blog posts to get through, and so I thought I would begin with a new project I am undertaking. <i>Abnormal Feeling of Wellbeing</i> is a lighthearted body of work
about serious mental illness. Consisting of lists and mantras, illustrated
infamous quotations on and historical allusions to the mind and observations on
the absurdity of everyday life, it takes its title from a listed possible side
effect of the antipsychotic drug Olanzapine. Reading this, it struck me that an
abnormal feeling of wellbeing was precisely what I was aiming for, giving that
I had been feeling abnormally unwell for half my life by that point.</div>
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The resulting works expand the notion of side effects and
are hand embroidered on to vintage linens, overbearingly florid, so lovely as
to be abject, naive and intricate. They are comprised of skewed self portraits
and acrobatic word play, always looking at the power implicit in language; how
language signifies sickness without spelling it out and can at other times
imprison, but ultimately, when put into the hands of the marginalised rather
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The piece below is a playful allusion to the phrase "<i>she wouldn't say boo to a goose</i>". </div>
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This piece, <i>List of Possible Side Effects</i>, explores the other, less discussed, unusual side effects of Olanzapine; the sensation of "<i>Walking through treacle</i>", "<i>Reduced dreaming</i>" and "<i>Unexpectedly finding oneself near cake</i>", rounded off with the very bizarre side effect I read on that Olanzapine pamphlet. I "cheated" somewhat with this piece, as a very talented embroiderer of yesteryear has worked some incredible stem and satin stitch on to the cotton. All that was left for me to do was embroider the text in variegated blue thread, and bullet point each side effect with red gems anchored with pink beads, to pick up the tones in the roses.</div>
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<a href="http://poesiegrenadine.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/hypnoid-states.html">Freudian Slipstitch</a> is the third in the series, and is currently under construction, ready for its protagonist to be placed in the scene. After that, perhaps a series of handkerchiefs. Onwards and upwards!</div>
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About this time last month I went to the <a href="http://www.polyesterzine.com/">Polyester Magazine</a> <a href="http://www.polyesterzine.com/buy">Issue Four</a> launch. There was a soundtrack of <i>No Scrubs </i>and <i>My Neck, My Back</i>, and, amusingly, being the only person there in a suit, Pip said he felt like he was "taking his thirteen year old daughter to a Green Day concert", but those weren't the only reasons we were there; I have some work featured in the magazine this issue.<br />
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You may remember <a href="http://poesiegrenadine.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/rose-red.html">this blog post</a> about the commission I took on for stylist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alicedelicious/">Alice Whiting</a>. Well, the pieces I embroidered for Alice were part of a stunning editorial she put together for Issue Four. You can <a href="http://www.polyesterzine.com/buy">buy the magazine here</a> to see the excellent company I'm in.<br />
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Photographer <a href="http://www.sachaburrows.co.uk/">Sacha Burrows</a> kindly sent me all her favourite shots from the photoshoot of the dress and blouse. I think she did an absolutely stunning job, as did Alice with the styling, and the models Poppy Hanam and Ellen Jasper. The softness and timelessness of the images really captures the skewed fairytale feel I aim for in my work.<br />
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I am available for embroidery commissions for fashion, fine art, or a melding of the two, just like here. Please email katerolison@googlemail.com with your requirements and for a quote, and I will be happy to help.<br />
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Apologies for the radio silence. I'm in a bit of a slump; too worn out to write. Too worn out to do much of anything; I have lots of ideas but no energy to put them into practice.</div>
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Luckily it's only thirteen days until I'm off to Scandinavia for what feels like a very necessary holiday (the number of days to count down feels most portentous!)</div>
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I have been able to do a little cutting and sticking in my visual diary, however; the cheat's route to creativity. There are some old drawings of mine (the first two pages) and some new ones by my friend Kat which she illustrated my birthday present wrappings with (the last two pages).</div>
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"Broken but happy" was the result I was given from one of those silly Facebook analyser/fortune teller apps which supposedly compromise your online security. It feels apt; I am a relentlessly optimistic depressive, at least, if an exhausted one. The Pantone postcard which is its neighbour, with its fetching shade of vomit blancmange, encapsulates depression for me; all is acrid and beige, the tumble weeds roll past your window, we're in Kansas forever more Toto, and there will never be any colour.</div>
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That being said, as an optimist, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am seeing a very kind and incisive CBT therapist and trying to get on with things as best I can. I think I need a big yet reachable goal to work towards to give me a sense of purpose/calling. My big goal for 2016 was to have a solo exhibition, but that feels almost unimaginable at present. Perhaps a few months down the line things will be looking a bit brighter. Here's hoping!</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-60621175487859727002016-01-06T09:37:00.002-08:002016-01-06T09:37:54.151-08:00"Hypnoid States"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My favourite quotation happens to be by one of my least favourite historical figures. Sigmund Freud wrote that "<i>Hypnoid states often grow out of the day-dreams which are so common even in healthy people and to which needlework and similar occupations render women especially prone.</i>" I am a woman, a daydreamer, and an embroiderer; I must be more "prone" to "hypnoid states" than most!<br />
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"Hypnoid states", but of course, lead to symptoms of hysteria, that peculiarly female malady.<br />
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Compare Freud's quote with this one, by a contemporary female, the writer, editor and publisher Flora Klickmann; <span style="line-height: 17.15pt;">"<i>And after the breakdown, when I
couldn't bear the sight of books or the sound of music, I found myself actually
doing needlework, and liking it too; and the fascination of it grew upon me
very rapidly, till now - I really don't know what I should do if I hadn't
needlework to fall back upon, as a recreation, when I get over-done with the
wear and tear and strain of work in our great city.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.15pt;">I would tend to agree with Klickmann that t</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">he meditative, contemplative act of embroidery can help suture and sooth; we can stitch our shattered psyches back together again</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.866666793823242px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.15pt;">As an act of (hysterical) anti-patriarchal rebellion I am hand stitching a meticulous illustration of Freud's quote, using embroidery techniques which Flora Klickmann, and possibly even Freud would have been familiar with. Here is my progress so far.</span><br />
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-11783778721440342422016-01-03T12:25:00.000-08:002016-01-03T12:25:18.633-08:00RPM (Resolutions Per Minute)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Happy New Year! I hope it's been just lovely for you. As I said on social media channels, I had the best Christmas since I was a wee bairn and got a lolly bigger than my head, and it is with some reluctance that I prepare myself for work tomorrow.</div>
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One of the things which has been so lovely about having so much time off, with not even any commissions to work on, is the freedom to make for the sake of making. I have finally made a breakthrough with a project which has been languishing for months. I have also been doodling with different source material in my visual diary, the outcomes of which I present to you here, including my New Year's Resolutions (in image number four) which I am adamant I will stick to.</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-24914545119110787382015-12-27T12:32:00.001-08:002015-12-27T12:40:22.803-08:00To All A Good Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's the end of the 52nd week of the year. This means two things; this week heralds the final #secretsofselfpreservation potion this year (and indeed, ever, unless I do some more #secretsofselfpreservation workshops) and getting a large chunk of my Sunday back each week to make a wide variety of art or to do whatever I fancy, really. I have a new project brewing which leads on from #secretsofselfpreservation but goes off on much more tangents.</div>
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I feel like I have been floating around on a cloud of Christmas spirit the past few days. It could be having more than one day off work for the first time since April (ten whole days, I'm ecstatic!), it could be that I've spent time with all my favourite people, or it could be that, looking back on 2015, I am certain that it was one of my best yet. It may be something of a <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.03636360168457px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">cliché</span></span> to think that, but I feel I have much to be happy about; my first "proper job", taking commissions, workshops and talks, moving into a bigger room and furnishing it with fine frippery and feeling cosy and content there, four years with my sweetheart, even managing my mental health well so it doesn't interfere with my life too much. It's not been a half bad year, really, but I am also very much looking forward to all 2016 has to bring.</div>
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In this (Christmas) spirit, the final #secretsofselfpreservation potion reads "Be grateful and be proud". I have been offered so many breaks this year, and been surrounded by the most wonderful people. I am also beginning to like myself a little more, and acknowledge my achievements, and yes, I am proud of one or two of them. Which is awfully self congratulatory, but for someone who has as poor self esteem as I do it's kind of a big deal.</div>
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Pip's handwritten message on the wrapping paper of one of my Christmas presents accompanies the embroidery in the potion bottle. My year has been better for having him in it, and long may that continue.</div>
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With this week's potion complete,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; line-height: 16.545454025268555px;">Apotheké/#secretsofselfpreservation project has only one more week before its conclusion. That is one of the reasons why I have named this week's creation "Wrapping It Up" potion. The other is that this week has been marked by frantic gift buying and the dispersal of my work Secret Santa. So the ingredient to accompany the embroidered text is a message from a Christmas card, and the label the card's front. This week's text reads "Giving gifts is good for the soul." I love giving presents, and the only reason Christmas shopping this week has been rather frantic was because I was yet to give the perfect gift for several people, and I <i>still </i>haven't, so fingers crossed for the next few days!</span></span></div>
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Last week's potion is belated, an all too common occurrence lately as the project approaches its conclusion.</div>
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On Friday, Pip and I booked our first holiday abroad since 2013. In February we are travelling to Gothenburg, Malmo and Copenhagen, hopefully in the snow! With that and the New Year in mind, for last week's potion I stitched, simply, "Look forward" on to the ribbon.</div>
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The other day Pip found some of this thread in his room and couldn't resist sending me this photograph, hence this potion is a combination of our plans together and my vocation.</div>
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I must admit, with the end of 2015 rapidly approaching, I am looking forward to having my Sundays back. Not because I have better things to do with them than create #secretsofselfpreservation potions, but because I'm itching to get started with a new project (or projects). More on that later, but in that spirit (sort of), this week's potion is named Pining Potion; that is, if you can pine for something which will occur in the future?</div>
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The diary element this week is a sprig of needles from our obliging Christmas tree which has not yet been brought in from the garden; I helped decorate Pip's yesterday whilst we listened to Carols from King's. </div>
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Different types of strength have come up in conversation a few times this week; in the context of brains Vs brawn, stereotypical gender roles, youthful machismo Vs mature responsibility. So this week's #secretsofselfpreservation potion reads "<i>Strength and softness are not mutually exclusive.</i>" Something I think very much applies to me, and all of us.</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-83626006497498919862015-12-01T15:02:00.002-08:002015-12-01T15:02:38.336-08:00Grasshopper Potion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week's #secretsofselfpreservation potion is not one but two days late to be posted, despite being finished in time. I'm feeling less and less inclined to blog lately; I don't know if it's wanting to hunker down and hibernate at this time of year, work becoming busier, or winding down with #secretsofselfpreservation as the end of the year draws nigh. I'm eagerly anticipating my next big project, but as last week's potion advocates, I must have "<i>Patience.</i>" I've always been one to want to run before I can walk, but I'm learning to accept my limitations and take my time, and, crucially, wait.</div>
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To accompany the text is what can only be described as fluff. I spent a good part of Saturday evening picking bobbles out of a new (old) angora jumper I had picked up for two quid, so that I could wear it the following day. In addition to that small example of patience, I had found a number of similar jumpers in Brick Lane for around thirty pounds a piece, but had decided to forgo them, so my patience really paid off!</div>
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<br />Kate Elisabeth Rolisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174705615204889751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731762224524912034.post-4492321975973229702015-11-23T03:32:00.000-08:002015-11-23T03:32:23.026-08:00Powerful Concoctions Potion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Last week was a bit of a boozy one. The weekend brought my little cousins to stay, the eldest of whom is <i>obsessed</i> with giraffes, and so it only seemed right to combine the two themes of the week in the diaristic element of its #secretsofselfpreservation potion with a giraffe shaped cocktail glass accessory. I named the potion <i>Powerful Concoctions Potion</i>, due to the alcohol consumption and the fact that I do believe these potions constitute powerful talismans and the process of making them plays a significant part in keeping me well each week.</div>
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The words embroidered on the ribbon read "<i>You are good enough.</i>" I am gradually beginning to believe that more and more.</div>
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