Like It. Lump It. We Are All Connected.(LILIWAAC)

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on May 19, 2018

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And Now To Good News

We met. A band of individuals. Some of us feeling a little wounded by life. We were weary about the world of news. Some of us had turned it off, others sat with down turned mouth as the media painted the world in bleak colours. We met in a very cute church hall in a sleepy Cheshire village. The location was intentional. A mini retreat, an idyllic oasis. A place to test the limits of our comfort zones. Another place. Just up the road but far enough from home. We did some things together. We shared lunch. Over the story telling, the chatting and the washing up we became something more than individuals. We might call it a collective. The brief was to chat about good news. To listen to others stories, to seek out good news in the world and to represent it in crocheted stitch. As I stitched together the circles which each person made I was struck by a few things which I thought it would be interesting to discuss. Despite there being no lead in this direction over half of tho...

The story behind "Like It. Lump It. We Are All Connected"

Enthused by the by the general election campaign that took place in June 2017, artist Beth Barlow found herself becoming increasingly politically engaged and activated. Alongside this sudden immersion in politics, the artist had been considering deeply the connectivity of everything on and within our planet. How each person, each animal, each action, each mineral or vegetable are deeply connected. Though we see ourselves as a definitively separate 'I' and 'You', 'We' and 'They', it could reasonably be said that we are all connected. Beth began to create works inspired by the rolling news and the ongoing debates and discussions of parliament whilst further exploring how these stories and those embroiled in them were connected. After some initial experiments using paint and wood, the artist decided that the notion of connectivity was better expressed by the loops and knots created in the art of crotchet. Crotchet also allowed for...

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