Articulation: Reflections from Quarantine 2020
Welcome to December of 2020 from Articulation Textile Group. This year of revisioning has given us much to think about, many things to adjust to, and depending on where you reside it may have even shown you what isolation, shut down, and or quarantine look like. Our world may have turned on its head but silver linings are presenting all around us and in a year that has forced us to slow down we have more time to take them in. Witnessing Lake Winnipeg's freeze-up this year , for example, has been a revelation. The lake, often referred to as an inland ocean is subject to changes in wind and water levels. As a result, this season, plate glass like shards of ice have accumulated along the shore, some of them hip height and inches thick. At night a careful listen can reveal creaking and grinding or the muffled splash of water lapping under the ice, sometimes even , "Whalesong". I am typing this blog while quarantining on the shores of Lake Winnipeg at our cottage. The mandat