The Nature of Things demonstrates how she has finely crafted and continues to craft her well-lived life as an artist and teacher.” - Virginia Gardner Troy, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Berry College “Tommye McClure Scanlin is a consummate and accomplished artist. I feel grateful for what she has done.” - Micala Sidore, The Art is the Cloth From start to finish, my interest never flagged. Tommye McClure Scanlin’s unassuming and powerfully capable way of seeing makes her book nourishing. “The Nature of Things combines modesty with relentless energy. At the end of this visit, you leave with a better understanding and more appreciation than you came in with.” - Karin Schaller, weaver, Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts “Reading The Nature of Things is like visiting a friend. It leaves me feeling hopeful and freshly energetic as I tread my own path.” - Sarah C. “What a welcoming and generous book-every essay a gentle invitation to walk in Tommy’s tapestry footsteps, to see the world with her discerning weaver’s eye and share how, with warp, weft, words and images, she twines her life and beliefs with the natural world she loves so well. I eagerly await her memoirs, many of which are no doubt embedded in her fabulous tapestries!” - Martha Bishop, composer “As a fledgling tapestry weaver some years ago, Tommye McClure Scanlin was most encouraging of my meager efforts, and only afterwards did I learn what a celebrated master weaver she is. This is a book to savor - and return to again and again.” - Carol Polsgrove, It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun: Esquire in the Sixties ![]() “Tommye McClure Scanlin invites us into her artist’s life - her walks in the woods, her doubts and decisions, the colors and threads of her days. In writing about her personal journey to art, she manages to capture the universal journey - the highs, the lows, and the intimacy of all who create things, no matter what the medium.” - Nancy Peacock, The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson Scanlin, a skilled tapestry weaver, is an equally skilled writer. “If you have ever appreciated a work of art, please read The Nature of Things by Tommye McClure Scanlin. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.Read a sample chapter of The Nature of Things (PDF)ĭownload The Nature of Things’s press kit (PDF) Reviews It is a work of such beauty that my soul wept. ![]() It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. ![]() The plait disappeared into the enormity of possible spaces.Įvery intention, interaction, motivation, every colour, every body, every action and reaction, every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, every toothache and flagstone, every emotion and birth and banknote, every possible thing ever is woven into that limitless, sprawling web. The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathedral roof. The weft of starlings’ motivations connected to the thick, sticky strand of a young thief’s laugh. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex tapestry…each one resonated under the step of the dancing mad god, vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery, or hunger, or architecture, or argument, or cabbage or murder or concrete across the aether.
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