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here’s hoping you find a way

final critique statements on separate post @bob

here’s hoping you find a way

Final critique (pictures on different post)

During the few weeks leading up to install, I was worried that I didn’t have enough rocks, that too many of them were cracking, and that the rods bod would turn out too pink instead of an appropriate rock tone. When the rocks finally came out of the kiln, it felt like it all fell together perfectly. The sharpies wrote well and the people writing on the rocks said it was a therapeutic experience. The rocks stacked really easily and were therapeutic for me.

I crocheted mats for the stacks to sit on using Jasmine Star Stitch in the round, using Lion Brand homespun, in the color herb garden. When I went to buy enough yarn, I almost started hyperventilating because the colorway was sold out of everywhere so I added an accent colorway called “fiesta” that was more colorful than the green- ness of herb garden. The mats turned out really playful and fun and helped separate the stacks from the floor. They made a good addition to the rest of the project.

If I could have done something different, I would have crocheted a few more small mats to add extra spots of “moss” connecting the stacks on the gallery floor. I also think it would have been a good idea to create a bunch of the smaller river stone style rocks for attendees of the show to write on themselves. It was really easy for my participants to write on the rocks and since they had a good experience doing so, it would have been nice to bring that to other people as well.

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