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Alyssa Karpa Finds Healing Through Her Feminist Art

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We say that art is therapy; that through creating and pouring your dreams, fears, secrets into your craft, you release and and begin to flow in a state of lurid tranquility. All that exists is you, and sorrow, ecstasy, desire weaving itself into fabric of your making. And before you know it, there is yourself, on canvas, a textile, a sculpture, a song, or in[...]

Allie Felton: textile prodigy

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Layer upon impending layer of typed utterances, tidings and remarks prudently interlaced. A fresco of hexagonal eyes framed in sapphire with untamed tassels at the base in opposition to the clean, tight geometry of the summit. Azure, fawn, azure in intricacy, and then pops of ornamental color: lime, rose, lemon, camel make up a stunning woven tapestry by tex[...]