art is my middle name

philip arthur porter

textile art

I have a Masters degree in Visual Design from the University of California at Berkeley. I went there to study textiles as a fine art from a marvelous man named Ed Rossbach. Baskets were his specialty, both contemporary and modern. Since some traditional baskets were made from reeds soaked in water to make them pliable, and since some basketmakers actually submerged the reeds as they worked, you might say that I came very close to getting a Masters degree in Underwater Basketweaving.

You might say it, but you probably shouldn't.

I still do textile artwork to this day. My current fascination is crocheting small, single-thread basket/sculpture thingies. I hand-dye the string in complicated ways to create colors and patterns. Are you getting this? I don’t change string to get the change in color—it is all of a piece. The dyeing process is top-secret, although I have blabbed it to a few people if they show enough interest. (Actually, if they show any interest at all.) I crochet a lot on airplanes, if I have the nerve. At take-off on one flight, I dropped my ball of yarn and it rolled about 15 rows back. Now that was embarrassing!

Visits since April 13, 2009

Website counter

Although a few people call me “Philip” and fewer still have called me “Felipe” or “Philodendren,” I have gone through most of my life as “Phil.” If I were to use Philip more consistently, I think I would have to demand that everyone say it with an English accent, to keep it crisp. Otherwise it goes a little flat—“fillup”—like the sound of a loose shoe sole on hard pavement.

My middle name honors Arthur Weimer who was the Dean of the School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where my father was a professor and administrator.

I come from a line of Porters either short or long, who knows. That particular line of Porters will die out before too long, because in my round of siblings and cousins, the boys didn’t beget boys who might pass on the Porter name, and the girls seem to have taken on their husbands’ names. So the Porters will be drowned out by “Cohns” and “McGuires” and “Flodders” at least in the descendants closest to me. (I have no children, thank God, and my only brother has three daughters. What ever happened to that feminist concept of keeping your own name? Those three beautiful and liberated and charming young women certainly didn’t!)

In the crowd in which I run, people are often changing their names—in every which way—especially as they “find themselves.” Mostly I couldn't take the time or trouble, but when I do imagine the possibility, I can imagine myself as “Art.” For the moment, though, I am happy to be able to say to folks “Art is my middle name.” I was surprised and delighted when I found out that “artismymiddlename.com” had not been taken.

antiy ghostbuster download

jbl speakershop download

antiword download

antivrus download

antivirusni programi download

antiviruse download

inscape download

antisniffer download

antisniff download

antiques roadshow theme download

wedding song paul stookey download

jandek mp3 download

wedit download

weditor download

antique olive nord free download

jbidwatcher download

jbed download

insaniquarium download crack

insaniquarium deluxe trainer download

insaniquarium deluxe free download + crack

insaniquarium deluxe crack download

weenie in a bottle download

weenie in a bottle mp3 download

weerd science download

insaniaquarium download

weezer hash pipe video download

weezer suzanne download

insaneaquarium download

weidu download

jazzy romeo download

insane in the membrane mp3 download

antiproxy download

jazzy b romeo songs free download

jazzy b romeo song download

jazzy b romeo mp3 download

jazzy b romeo free download

jazzy b romeo download mp3

jazzy b romeo download

jazzy b dil lutiya download

antileech plugin download

antifirewall 1.01.49 download

insane clown posse suicide hotline free download

insane clown posse suicide hotline download

antidote prisme download

anticrash download

anticrash 3.6.1 download

weird al amish paradise download

weird al constipated download

weird al couch potato download

weird al yankovic eat it download

weird al yankovic ebay download

weird al yankovic smells like nirvana download

weird al yankovic the night santa went crazy download

antibooter download

weka data mining download

anti virous free download

welcome zonet download mac

anti leech anime download

anti flag turncoat download

anti download premium vir

anti download free nortin virus

anti download free nortan virus

wellenreiter download

wellenreiter ii download

husary download

jazz jackrabbit shareware game download

jazz jackrabbit mac download

jazz jackrabbit 3 demo download

jazz jackrabbit 2 the secret files download

jazz jackrabbit 2 holiday hare download

jazz jackrabbit 2 full version download

insanaquarium free download

insanaquarium download

jazz jack rabbit the secret files download not dem

anti apyware free download

welsh male voice choir download

anthrax madhouse mp3 download

wendy liebman download

wendy matthews the day you went away mp3 download

jazz fakebook download

wenlin download

wepattack download

wepcrack airsnort download

wepcrack download for windows

wepcrack download windows

wepcrack for windows download

wepcrack windows download

weraz download

anthony callea the prayer download

anthony callea rain download

anthony callea prayer mp3 download

anthony callea prayer download

werewolf the apocalypse download

werewolves of london mp3 download

anthill pro download

wesker report download

weskers report download

antes muerta que sencilla download

wesley willis mp3 download

jazler download

hushabye mountain download

hushabye mountain download mp3

hushabye mountain mp3 download

antares microphone modeler download

antares mic modeler download

antares avox download

antares auto tune 3 download

antamedia internet caffe v4.9.4 download

antamedia internet caffe 4.9.4 download

ant muzak download

ant contrib.jar download

ansys torrent download

ansys download crack

ansys 9.0 download

ansys 8.1 download

anson hu mp3 download

anson hu download

ansoft hfss download

ansoft designer download

ansi.sys download

ansi y14.5 download

inrar download

anquet maps download

westell 2200 driver download

westell 2200 firmware download

westell firmware download

westell wirespeed driver download

westell wirespeed dual connect modem download

anope windows download

anope services download

anonymous proxy verifier download

husky stash font download

anonymizer total net shield download

anonymization download

anonymail download

anonym mailer download

anonmail download

annodex download

jayce and the wheeled warriors download

10 download micrografx picture publisher

annie lenox into the west download

westlife i wanna grow old with you download

annie lennox into the west mp3 download

annie lennox here comes the rain mp3 download

westlife seasons in the sun mp3 download

westlife uptown girl download

annie heartbeat mp3 download

annie heartbeat download