Articulation Textile Group

I am a 20-year veteran YMCA swimmer who was greeted at the pond this morning with a question. Are you taking any time off over the break to rest? It got me thinking... do I ever really take a moment to take in the enormity of what the past year really was? Do we give ourselves an opportunity to reflect, to even acknowledge all that has taken place? Amanda Onchulenko, 'Reflection,' Connected Heritage , New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli MB If you're like me, you are too busy: thinking, planning and doing, figuring out, keeping up or imagining what is next, but my friend made a very good point. To honour my friend's query in this brief season that hangs between Christmas and New Years, I will take this opportunity for a contemplative review of what we as Articulation Textile Group were up to during 2019. Leann Clifford, 'Ripple and Frond,' Forest and Sea and the Place Between , Portals Gallery, Duncan BC Its time to remind ourselves what evolved, what...

Of all the churches we visited this was my favourite. The ceilings are covered in mosaics with lots of shiny gold tiles. The floor mosaics are in cooler colours. A woman doing science experiments. There are lots of geometric mosaic patterns on the floors... ...and on the walls. All most inspiring. In one of the chapels there is a coarser mosaic on each roof arch. Not fine work but somehow very appealing by providing a human scale in this massive building.

One day Donna, Lesley and Ingrid did a side trip to Shutz Falls, just west of Duncan. where we sat in the forest, amidst the greenery, and sketched... And another day was a trip to see the old-growth Douglas Fir forest in "Cathedral Grove" in the MacMillan Provincial Park along the Pacific Rim Highway heading west towards Tofino with Donna, Lesley and ReBecca... where we discovered fungi of many different types. But first we drove further north and pulled in off the highway and again wandered deep into the forest to sit and sketch. And then back to wander through the posted informational signs in Cathedral Grove .