wALLS tO tHE bALL- Summer 2011, Sackville

Welcome to the last post.


This blog was set up by Struts Gallery while I participated in their open studio residency this past summer.
I had never kept a blog before.
Truthfully, the thought of blogging caused me a lo-grade yet menacing anxiety.
I got over it, or pushed myself through it, cus these are the days of our lives and there are much more worthwhile things to wrangle one's anxiety with.


All this to say, 
I am back home in Toronto, and Walls to the Ball and I are moving forward, towards Montréal (spring 2012), St. John's (fall 2012) and Saskatoon (summer 2013). Sackville was an amazing place to birth this project, and what went down here constitutes the marrow of the bones that will continue to structure this project.


For anyone interested:

walls to the ball is a project that connects sports and textile production to ideas about movement and resistance. It champions process, provocation and performance, as a way to disrupt normative associations and shift the context of engagement with both activities. 

A deliberate subversion of the macho idiom “balls to the wall”, walls to the ball is an installation, performance and sculpture project that uses the traditionally gendered handicraft macramé/hand-knotting to construct fantastical versions of basketball nets. 

walls to the ball combines basketball with handicraft, to blur the boundaries between these two (often conflicting) realms of culture. The ensuing project suggests a point of interconnectivity and nurtures a dialogue that threatens - craft and athletics - relative isolation.

 

Alright, well, take care!

Truly, 

Hazel

wALLS tO tHE bALL- gallery edition

Fist Pumps & Felt Bannerz

Publish Post

est. 2010

RAISIN production at LITTLE ARMADILLO

el sketcho

blurry RAISINS OVER PASSION in front of macramé wall

Silkscreen artwork was made using sticky vinyl to create a one-off stencil. The positive is cut out with an exacto knife and placed on the paper side of the screen, it's immediate and lends itself really well to my font, huzzzzzzzzzah! I do wish I hadn't lost the middle of the O and the A, or had thought to cut another, arf.

Printing at Kallie Garcia's Little Armadillo print shop with Flash the dog.

Heat setting with John's handsome iron.

A quick and dirty Hazel twinning (disregard the photoshop hack job on the right).

Ponytail Theory / Ponytail Express: Inagural webcast post thing, yo

from Snackville NB, this is Hizzel Meyer reporting idiosyncrasies for Ponytail Theory/Ponytail Express

Whaaaat!  #53's wristband blends with the inner backboard rectangle, making it look like his hand detached to reach for the ball!

bottom image found here

squash SLANDER

best-ever squash racquet found at the Sally Ann for $1.99, so handsome

The guns and switchblades really gotta stop being brought onto the court so Adidas can reinstate their guarantee policy.

I know this red thread serves some purpose, only ME NO KNOW WHAT!

crowning moment

1st square knot ever by Hizzel

natural birth

In Sit On U

not knot the knot, naught

EXITENTER

An enter for Struts exit. Walls are painted with various different types of paint, not all friendly to the needs of the humble tempera puck, hence (hence!) the washed out NTE.

Plotting out the macramé wall, with a cop-out projection, pick your battles Hambone!