MADELEINE'S HEP HERD

Stelarc eat your heart out - I've had a useful physical enhancement, replacing bone with cobalt-chrome alloy! My first hip replacement (4 weeks ago) seems to have been very straightforward. The second one is due before the end of the year. I'm extremely hopeful that I'll regain a lot of energy once I'm free from the pain and the drugs - until the arthritis finds a new playground! Right now, I get tired very quickly, am walking with two sticks and not allowed on buses or in black cab-type taxis in case I dislocate the new joint sitting on low seats or getting on board. This make things very frustrating as my head is as full of ideas as ever and I'd really like to be in my studio much more. It's made even more of a mess of the house than I usually manage. I have several aids for sitting at the right height, for picking things up and getting about, we've had to use the mattress from the sofa bed to raise the height of our bed. So the sofa frame is now cov...

Klein Bottle Originally uploaded by MadeleineS . Here is what I hope will be the first of many felted Klein bottles. I'm looking forward to many more adventures in knitted topology. Readers who know their science fiction will hopefully be interested to see my rendering of the planet from Christopher Priest's Inverted World . I plan to have it ready for my exhibition during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. I took the picture during a shoot I set up for a new gallery that will be exhibiting my work. rm art opens in just under two weeks and looks like stocking a lively selection of Scottish fine and applied art. As well as large scale paintings, there will be functional and sculptural applied art. This Klein bottle is only a prototype and so won't be there. Pop in to the website or better still the gallery in St Stephen's Street, Edinburgh to see what she does have. If you can't wait till rm art opens come and ask me at the Arts Market on 31 May where I...