i'm honored to say that i have written the cover story for this autumn's korean quarterly - on the pojagi of fiber artist chunghie lee. talking with her was an amazing experience and i'm very happy with the piece (and kept from being too prideful by a rather funny misspelling of my name, not on any of the other five pieces i wrote for the issue, but only on the byline for the cover story.) chunghie lee is a tremendous inspiration and anyone who wants to read the piece should contact KQ for an issue. with the corking misspelling, it's bound to be an incredible collector's item.
recently, a girlfriend sent me information on the art of kimsooja. still being rather new to the whole pojagi thing, i had certainly never heard of bottari - this is one more interesting thread upon which i shall follow up.
not immediately, though, for my life, like the big number before intermission in a sondheim musical, has no loose ends whatever, and every leitmotif eventually layers upon the next, perfectly, neatly, exquisitely. i don't know how i get this lucky with synchronicity, but it's for damn sure that i do.
in the winter issue of KQ i'll have, among a few other things, an interview with a writer i've admired for quite some years, for his incisiveness and his guts. the knitting blog world could use a b.r. myers. why, though would i be writing about the american author i wrote about here at the end of august, in KQ?
it was pure luck that i was discussing myers with my sister's boyfriend, and in digging up a link for him, stumbled upon what was, really, right before my eyes. now that we're in communication for the piece, i've felt like a foie gras duck with the funnel down my throat - and loving it. what a lot of brain, and heart, and nerve, some people in the world have. how so much of that has been brought to me in one way or another through korea is really remarkable to me.