[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row disabled_on=”off|on|on” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_image=”off” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] The HANDSHAKE6 group has been collaborating on a fundraising necklace project for a while, and they are excited to share the results! These necklaces are a collaboration between the group with… Continue reading SHAPE SHIFTER: HS6 Fundraiser
Category: Amelia Rothwell
CHAINreaction: Moments of Connection
An intention A bond A community An anchor A hook A story An experiment A seat A look A knot A net … Continue reading CHAINreaction: Moments of Connection
All I feel like making are tears
‘All I feel like making are tears’ A mother (1942-2020) A friend (1972-2020) For ‘CHAINreaction: Handshakes at the Refinery’, Nelson Jewellery Week, March 2021
A Year
My first year of HANDSHAKE 6… How to: Get from my head to my hands; from thinking to object Bring awareness to my process Evoke not describe Pare back Say more with less Writing has become a valuable tool in my making process. Stream of consciousness writing… on paper creates a gap;… Continue reading A Year
‘Signing In’, Te Auaha, Wellington, Nov 2020.
a pocket a stone presence absence remains ‘Stones. On the ground and of the ground. Grounded; grounding. Hand objects.’ Materials: Stone, EPNS, soap, wood, cotton, paper, egg carton, fabric, flour, felt, lint.
What came before…
Stones. You lie on the ground, minding your own business when I go for a walk in the countryside. On the shore, you watch the waves come tumbling towards you, sometimes catching you and drawing you back to tumble gently backwards and forwards for another eternity. You sit by yourselves, on the side of… Continue reading What came before…
The Poet
‘The poet… is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs… the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.’ Derrida, 1982* ‘The poet’s job is to put into words those feelings we all have that… Continue reading The Poet
Conversations with Mah: Claiming My Voice
“Read things in the style that you would like your voice to sound like – so that it can be your inspiration and you can study it – absorb it through osmosis.” “Read what you love, not what you think you ‘should’ read.” “Find a way to write about your work that reflects your… Continue reading Conversations with Mah: Claiming My Voice
Intention
I want to make work that is intimate; that makes people want to touch it, to hold it; that touches people.
We Are Not The Poem
We Are Not the Poem. ‘The problem is we think we exist. We think our words are permanent and solid and stamp us forever. That’s not true. We write in the moment. Sometimes when I read poems at a reading to strangers, I realize they think those poems are me. They are not me,… Continue reading We Are Not The Poem