Just Proof That I'm Still Alive And Doing Other Stuff Beyond Baby Blankets: The WIPs I Currently Have

Just proof that I'm still alive and doing other stuff beyond baby blankets: the WIPs I currently have on square frames. Does not include any knitting, crochet, or embroidery in round frames. The main light in my lounge is so yellow and rubbish. I need to sort that out.

Classics craft workshop at KCL

King’s College London are hosting an event on the 16th October 2015 called ‘Craft process & cultural response: making & thinking about making in Greco-Roman antiquity’ There’s a choice of a mosaic workshop and a textile workshop, followed by an evening talk. 

It’s free but you do have to register (which you can do through the link above). I already signed up for the textile workshop (shocking, I know). 

I’m a huge supporter of alternative approaches to classical material - especially craft approaches. There are experiences you gain from engaging in a making process that you just can’t pick up from translating texts or reading texts, looking at pictures, or reading academic research. It’s an approach that I’d recommend anyone interested in classics tries at least once. This event looks pretty good to me, so, y’know, if classics/craft is your thing and attending seems doable to you, maybe register for it. :3

Day 124.

There will be no updates for a few days because this is now on display at St Anne’s College, Oxford, for the duration of the Prismatic Translation conference.

I’ll be giving a talk on it this evening.

But if you’re a student at Oxford and you want to see it, you should be able to see it in Seminar room 1 of St Anne’s until Saturday afternoon.

But yet it seems to me that translating from one tongue into another, unless it be from those queens of tongues, Greek and Latin, is like viewing Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although you see the pictures, they are covered with threads that obscure them so that the smoothness and the gloss of the fabric are lost.

Don Quixote, Part 2: (trans Water Starkie)

Oh, but Don Quixote, did no one teach you to marvel at the back of those tapestries, and see them as their own piece of art?

Day 81.

Well this sounds very interesting, and personally relevant.