I’m an artist, have been forever. I’m a single mom of two and a middle-school science teacher. Somehow I try to balance all those parts. That’s probably why the house is never clean.
I dream and those dreams become art. I have been printmaking for over 25 years, making quilt art for over 20 years, working in embroidery for over 35 years, and exploring images of women since birth. I let memories, good and bad, capitulate with pen and paper; these days, the images translate into the texture of fabric, beads, embroidery, paint, and pen. I trust my subconscious ability to reconcile each object within the whole.
In short, I tell stories.
Kathy Nida
Return to 9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts & Containers HERE.
We are already seeing the devastating effects of climate change. We may not be able to stop or even slow some of those effects, and yet humanity still is fighting for bigger cars and more plastic. The domino dots show us what should be; the rest is what we’re running toward if we don’t make significant changes in our behavior, from a single person to giant corporations and countries. Looks like a losing game.
Living in Southern California means the outdoors calls to us year-round. The weather is always pretty good, sometimes too hot and sometimes too cold, but nature is always waiting for us to come out and be in the mud, the sun, the sand, the trees. The artist feels bigger out there, outside. She can breathe in and then breathe out the stress, the bad, the irritating, and leave it outside. She can become the outside.
You Pollute Me: Every day, each of us makes numerous decisions about how to treat the planet. Those decisions have long-lasting effects, and soon it will be too late to fix what we have done.
This earth mother is solidly planted in Southern California (and maybe a little NorCal as well). Mostly raised here, she enjoys the beach, the desert, and the mountains, as well as all the wildlife she supports.
