Emily Leclerc Creative

A table setting from a wedding I worked on last summer. It’s always so nice to see the things I make come together for someone’s special day. For this wedding, I worked on the invitations, menu, name cards, photo booth backdrop, thank you cards, a design for the bow ties for the groomsmen, paper napkins and I’m sure I’m forgetting a few things!

A little project that never saw the light of day. But I enjoyed creating this little organic monogram design originally intended for a chalkboard.

Yesterday with Retailles: atelier de papier making paper from fabric scraps! I love paper but I love it even more when it’s made from linen and cotton scraps from local fashion designers. Sophie is so passionate about what she does and the connections she makes with other creatives that i can’t imagine anyone leaving her studio uninspired. In a few days I’ll be able to pick up my papers and see the results of my experiments and see how my new paper works with ink, paint and watercolour.

I feel very late to the game but we just watched the RBG documentary (US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). I really enjoyed it but no surprise there, and the way she approached challenges and conflict was especially interesting to me. I think this quote of hers sums it up so well.

About 7 years ago, I stared working on this collage project in one of @_jennifer_schuler_ classes. I finally finished up the last few pieces yesterday, no clue why it took me so long. . . . Jen had us pick a photo of one of the emotional faces from the participants in a MoMA performance. We then made a collage with used scraps from the art studio. Swipe over to see the photo I chose. A little bit about the original performance piece: In 2010 at MoMA, Abramovi engaged in an extended performance called, The Artist Is Present. Seated silently at a wooden table across from an empty chair, she waited as people took turns sitting in the chair and locking eyes with her. Over the course of nearly three months, for eight hours a day, she met the gaze of 1,000 strangers, many of whom were moved to tears. @ Montreal, Quebec