I Know Nothing About Textiles
That did not stop me from attending an event last Friday night here in Raleigh put on by, among others, Amy Quinn. I know Amy from CTK Raleigh. After attending the debut of their new textile design collective, The Common Seam, I was impressed by a number of things.
The first is that I clearly do not get out enough. The artists displaying their work on Friday night clearly know what they are talking about, and I for the most part clearly did not understand what they were talking about.
The second is that I think it’s really cool that five up and coming designers in Raleigh, NC ( not a hotbed of design that I know of ) were willing to have a public unveiling of their idea. It takes some amount of chutzpah to lay your work out there for the public to comment on, criticize, and / or not understand.
The third is that this event seems to me to be a great metaphor for the litmus test of the ideas you are working on. Are you willing to put it out there and let it be praised, questioned, misunderstood and maligned by the general public simply because you think it’s the right thing to do? If not, it’s probably not worth doing.
I am looking forward to seeing what happens with The Common Seam, not because I understand what it means to change the way textiles are designed, but simply because someone I know took a risk and shared their passion with the rest of us. Best of luck to Amy and the crew.
