miriam louisa simons

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song for shindo sensei

Private collection, New Zealand
550 x 920

Ai-zome (indigo) and shibori dyeing
Hand-woven ramie, bamboo, cotton cord, found object

There are two blog posts about my time working with aizome master Hiroyuki Shindo in Japan:

song for Shindo-sensei
offering to aizen-myoo

My work, as I see it, is to cultivate the garden of creativity by being so wholly present that I am absent, disappearing entirely into the movement of making, and marvelling at what gets made. Later – often much later – meaning might arrive. Or not.

A mind that’s wondering and a heart full of wonder drive my creative life, ensuring I never get trapped in the clutches of any personal style or narrative. For me, the adventure of creativity – of making – overshadows the need to produce a certain kind of art product.

I don’t have things to say; I am simply and unapologetically “on the make.”