Seeing Less, Capturing More
byNature reveals her secrets slowly, but for those with the patience to look closely, deeper meanings can emerge. So it is for Asheville photographer…
Nature reveals her secrets slowly, but for those with the patience to look closely, deeper meanings can emerge. So it is for Asheville photographer…
One might think Sam Benbow deserves a break from wood. At his regular gig, he works as a kitchen and bath contractor, creating custom…
Inspiration doesn’t always strike in the loveliest places. Metal artisan Pam Holthouser was working as an apprentice for a professional painting contractor, lending a…
The eyes are the first thing you notice — or, more accurately, the lack of them. Atlanta-based artist Jamaal Barber’s current body of woodcut…
The intimacy of making art is nowhere better represented than in the tactile bond between hand and needle, needle and thread, thread and fabric….
Kirsten Stolle’s art provides a useful lesson in the difference between looking and seeing. Her 2016 series Chemical Bouquet, for example, is, at first…
Every book, says Mary Carol Koester, holds two histories. The first fills the pages — the genealogy in an old family Bible, for example,…
At 69 years old and with nearly 40 years of “slow cloth” work under her belt, Eileen Hallman of Black Mountain is in no…
When Matthew Shirey was 19, he phoned his father and told him he had found his life’s calling: to become a blacksmith. “You’re never…
It often seems as though the pace of life is quickening at the expense of quality time — and quality goods. If there’s a…