Feel Free

getting through

August 7, 2022 by jude

Sunflowers are on my mind. Still, but S is a wee bit down the road. It’s a symbol, I added it to the glossary but I will gather my thoughts later. Just Sunflower then. Right now it is too hot and I’m having breakfast. That’s right, cookies, I’m going through a phase. Internet is spotty. There was a bit of rain yesterday but it only made it more humid. The ground is still dry. Ants are coming in looking for […]

Categories: bundle dyeing, DYEING, Garden, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, sunflower, Symbols and Motifs

Not the Last Sunflower

August 5, 2022 by jude

The thing is, hopelessness is useless. And actually it is just a point of view. And you can change it. Over the years, I have grappled with the word Art. The concept of Art. The use of Art. I have often been frustrated with the romantic approach to Art. It’s exclusivity in terms of community. Although many might disagree. But now I can explain, I think, how I feel. Art is not the contest that reaps the title artist, the […]

Categories: SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE

Outside looking in

August 4, 2022 by jude

Lately. Every evening when it cools a bit, I sit on the porch beneath the center skylight, and look up. Last evening, there was looking back. Outside looking in. And I said, out loud, this is just how I feel lately. I found a lot of old thin silk that was hiding in an unopened box. I continue to play with small bundles. Not waiting long enough to see, but long enough to know that what I imagine might actually […]

Categories: LIFE AND STORY

#2 small dyeing

August 3, 2022 by jude

Categories: DYEING

just a little garden cloth

August 2, 2022 by jude

The purple basil didn’t do well, munched and molded. But it did leave a bit of color on silk. I think August will be a bit wordless. In the garden. Learning. I am very confused about so many things.

Categories: DYEING, Garden

keep going

July 31, 2022 by jude

Continuing. That’s what, basically, IT’s all about. Sometimes IT is just what moves through you. And how that changes IT. The question is what is IT?

Categories: just going

summer 2022

July 30, 2022 by jude

For a long time now, inspired by Dana… …the cloth I call Grow, remains on the table, as a Table Cloth. It made a a great backdrop for seed sorting yesterday. While we enjoyed a few drops of rain for about 2 minutes. Here in lower New York State, where water is everywhere, declared a drought area with reduced ground water for at least the near future, expected to continue now for however long. Birds , bees, squirrels, chipmunks and […]

Categories: Garden, Grow, LIFE AND STORY, Naming Things, PATCHWORK, Season, SMALL CLOTH

Control

July 29, 2022 by jude

Be in it. The haven I created here is not just for chipmunks. All of it, just is here within view. More life. As it is and will be. Earth Weeps. Under the needle. Weaving on my mind. Because weaving is a special kind of holding and a special kind of reminder.

Categories: framing, Garden, just going, WEAVING

and so it goes

July 28, 2022 by jude

Out of control. It’s that time of year. The cucumbers have escaped the fence and the Malabar spinach is everywhere. There are definitely more than enough tomatoes for the chipmunks and us. The paths are becoming hard to navigate. I will make some changes next season. There IS a garden. And then, I remind myself how little control I seem to have over how to get to things these days, but still I am growing. My capabilities have seriously diminished […]

Categories: design mending, Garden, LIFE AND STORY, paper and cloth, Soul-o

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