Be About Beauty

This rich, stunning work, titled Be About Beauty,  is by nationally known fiber artist Adriene Cruz. She kindly gave me permission to reproduce it here; visit her Web site to see more of her work. The poem is by Kalamu Ya Salaam, founder of NOMMO Literary Society, a New Orleans-based creative writing workshop. The copyright date of the textile work is 2001.

I discovered Adriene Cruz through Rayela's Fiber Focus, a wonderful blog by Rachel Biel Taibi -- Rachel lives in Paducah, Kentucky, but is a sister global textile explorer. She's especially interested, as I am, in the cultural context of textiles, and she also writes about aspects of sustainability; she has an interesting post on fair trade, a concept that a lot of people relate to in terms of coffee and chocolate, but it also has great relevance in crafts and textile production.

Back to Adriene Cruz: her work is about spirit, meditation, power, beauty and heritage. Enjoy it, and let whatever you do be about beauty today.

Comments

[Rachel Biel Taibi]

Thanks for the mention, Elaine! Would love to have you join the fiber network I started recently that is companion to the blog: http://fiberfocus.ning.com/

You'd fit right in and could offer a lot of insight into all the things you are involved with. All the best, Rachel

[Acey]

loving those gilded cowrie images. Keep coming back here to gawk.

[Rachel Biel Taibi]

Adriene is back in Paducah as artist in residence! Great to have her here!