View my artwork at Flickr...

I've decided to use Flickr, a great photo site, to host images of my artwork. Note the slide show to the right of this post...it's fed from an RSS feed from Flickr...amazing! Visit my online gallery or my website, where you'll find the same link. It's sooo easy to update, and I bypassed a lot of programming.

Thanks to Liz Castro, programmer and author extraordinaire, for helping me post images easily...visit her blog for instructions and inspiration...

The urge to touch....

In my art critique group's blog, Artery Art Group, Earl commented upon the 'touch' aspect of my textile art work. He wanted to touch it, like one touches his ceramics...

Textiles is a part of our daily- and nightly- lives...clothing touches us all of the time, and the urge to touch the art work is overwhelming. As I watched people looking at my work this weekend at South End Open Studios, I saw the same reaction...

But, like a painting or a sculpture, the human hand can damage, stain...just like we damage our own clothing by its constant use.

So, no you can't touch my work, but...

How do I deal with this primal urge?

I think I'm going to set up a 'touch' area next time, so that people can hold a sample, and touch it as much as they want....

What do you think? Is it necessary or unecessary?