I can’t remember where I first heard about this book, but I do like a ‘craft memoir’.
Here’s the blurb …
handiwork is a contemplative short narrative from acclaimed writer and visual artist Sara Baume. It charts her daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. handiwork offers observations at once gentle and devastating, on the nature of art, grief and a life lived well. Baume’s first work of non-fiction offers readers a glimpse into the process of one Ireland’s best writers, written with the keen eye for nature and beauty as well as the extraordinary versatility Sara Baume’s fans have come to expect.
This is beautifully written – I will have to read more of Ms Baum’s work. It’s also a very personal account of making things, family, collections of objects, and out space – how we fill it and how we use it.
I do this too – knitting or stitching in front of the TV.
The television flickers and I listen to it. In most cases, a story can be followed from sound alone, but I glance up every now and again in order to identify speakers, in order to maintain some kind of visual momentum through each programme.
This too withe post its
[…] several post-its glued to the window frame – they are luminous pink, green and yellow; they are measurements and calculations, instructions and reminders; they are mantras, spells, codes.
Surely all craft’s people know this
it is not always a case of finishing one thing and going on to the next.’
