Sao Paulo

Meeting with Fernando Campana......ARC Magazine......and a bed after this horrible flight F*&K up!

Thanks to these beautiful ladies.....

I have made my first back strap scarf!!!

Hot hot hot.....Although a little H&M???

Trama....Textiles...and weaving in Xela

Can I say how great the whole Guatemalan experience has been......and I how feel about haggling....I never do it....and I always want to.....but after spending 10 hours....weaving with the traditional backstrap weaving loom.....I have an understanding of the amount of work that goes into a piece.....

Knowing this to be true...as a jeweller....because when you sand...polish... and set a piece....and you do it right....you aren't earning what your worth is in time....

So is weaving really the right skills for me to be learning? another time consuming .....no money earning....labour intensive......tradition? Hells Yeah....

To be able to sit in the sunshine.....banging up textiles is exactly what I have been waiting for....after trying the foot loom and hand looms.....I am totally convinced that this is the way to roll......

So tomorrow is my last day at

http://tramatextiles.org

but I have a good feeling for coming back.....and would be interested in taking part in a project...

I am going to the textile market in Chichicastenango on Thursday.....should be great!

*music provided by ipod shuffle.....

Goodbye NYC....Hello Guatemala

I am on the move again......I left the lovely Katie back in Brooklyn...After a killer pastrami sanger.....I arrived in Mexico City a few hours ago...

Before I left I tied up the loose end at the MAC Support Store.... I got a bunch of supplies.....So I am able to work towards the show during my stay in Guatemala....

There was so much waste....I managed to get some old Ipods.....and cables.....I plan on making rings from the ipods and I plan on striking up a deal with a MAC Store

When I return to Australia in December....jewellery from ipods....you saw it here first!

I am going to Antigua soon....I will finish this blog from there......







Now in Antigua can I saw it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been?

Apart from the fact I dont speak Spanish...I am finding it to be the best place to relax and focus on my work....I am staying at a cute little hostel called

http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Base-Camp-Hostel-Antigua/Antigua/38170

Having been through the markets this morning....Eating some of the best lychees....I am taking the afternoon off....and going to sit in the central park and make some rings....and things...and enjoy the sunshine....

After the rush of NYC...Antigua has been a welcome and suprising next stop....

I am keen to get learning again....and totally inspired by the skills of the kids on the streets....I wonder if I can take some home in my backpack...Although I was warned of this...aparently I this has happened before!

*this was written to the Dirty Projectors.....Buy it

Crabs.....Whose got them? Why Katie and I......Crabs of the Blue Swimmer kind....
for dinner....mmmmm Lekker!

To celebrate the good news......of mine....I was successful in my application for Programmed Show.....

http://www.programmedshow.com

Organised by the Brooklyn Artist Gym....

http://www.brooklynartistsgym.com

and the MAC Support Store

http://www.macsupportstore.com

A show which features installations made with obsolete electronics....


TBC................


*written to Blossom Dearie

I have found what I am looking for.....unlucky Bono!

so......
this is the way I am seeing NYC at the moment....wet and cold...

I am terrible at tourist shots.....but in case you don't believe that I am here....and using the award...to put a deposit on a house?



I woke to have my first day of weaving I headed to the Textile Arts Center!

I LOVE WEAVING.......can I say it holds all the answers the I have been looking for......and not to mention the environment that I am working in.......Cynthia, Visnja and Owyn.....what cool chicks....This is the perfect experience.......
I am even going to buy a loom.....So when I return to Australia in December....I can move to our beach house and spend the summer making......


Preparing for the journey to the UK.....and finding myself some stockists......
did someone say hand bags......?

check out the website = http://www.textileartscenter.com/

I am a little annoyed today....I was planning to go Guatemala on a weaving tour....but realising that it was nothing more then a charity event held by house wives at play I pulled out.....to only get an abusive email......good evening honey!

I am now going to Guatemala through connections of Cynthia's and leaving the Lonely Planet's #1 Worst rated city = Guatemala City......for Xela....

I am so excited about the next adventure.....I think I threw up in my mouth a little!

Love L........

*this blog was written to the 5 o'clock news

Did I forget something

I have realised that I started this blog without any information about what I am doing......here, there and everywhere!

So...my name is Liesl Hazelton...and I am an alcoholic.....I also was awarded the Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship 2009

http://www.dhub.org

A new opportunity for young artists and designers to broaden there horizons by travelling and having experiences otherwise unobtainable or unavailable in Australia. Funded by the Powerhouse Museum, Art NSW and supported by the British Council. And as long as you are in the first five years of your professional practice and not working in the built environment you can enter....Just DO It!

I applied for the scholarship in 2008....to help fund my guest semester in Germany and Hochschule Pforzheim...

http://www.gestaltung.hs-pforzheim.de

I wasnt successful...so I worked worked and worked some more to fund my journey...I also was the recipent of the Hazelton Trust fund for that year.....Although there was some stiff competition...I think there was even a recount of the votes...

It was when i was living in Amsterdam...that I re applied for this years scholarship.....I had an interview at 6am...prepared a cup of coffee and was off to my neighbours place...to be honest...I was happy it was at this time because I wasnt able to be nervous....scared or say stupid things that would inhibit my chances of...dare I say winning....

After the interview...I woke my sister up....who was sharing the penthouse suite of a brothel with me...then I slept a little....between waking her up with my excitement...because I was convinced I was going to win.....I say win...because I saw it as not only as an award or recognition for my work...but as a competition...(the way I look at everything) that I have been training for....4 hard years....blood, sweat and silver!

I was the best this year!!! SO I cracked a beer, ate a stroopwaffle....and enjoyed the rest of the day!

I returned to Australia to make a plan....accept the award and then think....it generally takes me a while, about what my next move would be...

I originally proposed that I would use the scholarship to stay in Amsterdam....working with Gesine Hackenberg and Iris Nieuwenberg

http://www.gesinehackenberg.com/

and

http://www.louisesmit.nl/frameset.php?language=en

Also to return to Germany and continue working with the disabled workshop in preparing an exhibition for my gallery in Antwerp, Belgium

http://www.beyondfashion.be/

To also also allow me to get established in the EU....

I decided that the scholarship was enabling me to achieve more then this....and those plans were already underway...I can use this scholarship to focus on developing my own career...a chance to think about what something I would never be able to do....either because of limited funds? or just not having the freedom to do so.

I left Amsterdam....I left ALOT of great friends there....I miss them all....and some other in Belgium....which was becoming a second home for me....and those who know me know why.....it has nothing to do with the diamonds!

I thought about it.....and this is what I am doing now.....I am at the beginning of the journey....I have made it through the wilderness.....and am seeing clearly on this cloudy day in NYC....

I start weaving tomorrow.....I am extremely excited about it....Cynthia is an amazing weaver and with her help...I am able to go alone to Guatemala and not join a house wife at play (Vroni) experience....

I also am able to get my Brazilian Visa back.....I am able to go there too...which means that not all is wasted...in Seoul....Although I still havent heard from my consulate....about the purse....

I am going to plan a halloween costume......skeletal....poncho....and extreme make up!

*this blog was completed with the help of Calexico: Feast of Wire

Links:

http://www.wholelottelove.com

http://www.kcommodore.com

http://www.designfederation.net

http://www.jewelleryandobjects.org

http://kylie-3sheets.blogspot.com/2009/10/inspiration