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Lots of energy happening here in the CRAFTCAST studio!

The weather is definitely fall like, and the garden is
doing it’s finally bow.

CRAFTCAST’s online LIVE classes are very popular. If you haven’t done so already, take a look at the fall line up HERE.

Today I talk with Michael deMeng.

I’ve enjoyed Mr. deMeng’s collage work for years, so it was great to spend one-on-one time with him and hear about his creative process. His artist statement really resonated with me:

“My work is about transformations.  It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning.   These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and  revolutions of existence:  from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction.  These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.“

Thank you Michael for your time and insights.

You can check out his website HERE.

Also, some new books and a dvd to share with you. Check out the CRAFTCAST Amazon Store with all the links you need.

above: “If these wings could fly” Mixed Media 2007  6″ x 8″ by Michael deMeng

SHOWNOTES
Music
Lost / Merry Ellen Kirk

Books
Felting for Baby 25 Warm and Wolly Projects for the Little Ones in Your Life / Saori Yamazaki

Perfectly Fitted / Lynne Garner

DVD
Robert Dancik’s   Faux Bone Jewelry Techniques

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