Some old Wild Self met Tea Bag Moon this morning. They aligned. And words came. Jahcardz. There are quite a few now.
Still, as free as I might feel, like everyone I guess, I have my safety net. Nine. , the grid that supports it. I just looked to my left and on the wall...
This is a color chart I began, well, too many years ago to remember. I can continue now. With this basket of loose scrap beside me. Or I can just think about it which might lead me somewhere else. I did not really plan this post. It just came together with bits of this and that. They are always here.
It’s all a tangle of loose threads.
I can rest on that and then reach for some calm.
Or maybe just rest.
rest is a very important component.
Tiger cats are my favorites, along with black cats, white cats, orange cats………….
There are more colors than the ones we can see
maybe you need a cat color chart
Perhaps you are right; something to consider…
This post makes me think if trees could talk…. All those growth rings
I alway saw tree rings in basketmaking. Like a vessel that holds growth.
Like a puzzle, fitting the mystery pieces together till it reveals the image!!
Form is liquid!
And color floats.
Yes!
I love the color chart just as it exists at this moment. The words “fragments” and “tentative” come to mind and yet for me it could be absolutely complete. It fascinates me with it’s beauty.
I have liked it like this for the longest time. It has been a teacher.
Beautiful painting, and the color chart feels like scraps of dreams or memories.
Life would be a completely different picture without having learned from you. The other day I heard your thoughts coming out of my mouth when a friend was frustrated that a creative project wasn’t going to plan. “It can’t be wrong, only unexpected, and isn’t that great?!” oxo
It’s been swell watching your threads loosen up over the years!!!
And me too! (You helped with that too💙)
🥂…here’s to our undoing!
(((Jude))) love how this post invites so enticingly to just relax & be and see how it goes
I’ve been struggling to get going again – I tend to get wrapped up in process, precision, etc. I’ve always loved just sitting with the materials & ideas but then some little voice says that I should “hurry up and make something”. No more! I’m going to follow your inspiration and just let things unfold for awhile. Thanks, Jude!!
yeah, there is too much pressure, maybe just too much to see these days. even freedom seems to be laden with agenda.
Fiber philosophy weaves everything together, loosely enough to even encourage freedom.
thread comes in many forms
Reading this post has given me the encouragement to follow my own loose path and let the selves wander …
I tend to reign them in, sooner than their meandering selves would like…
Truly enjoyed what you had to share.
Jahcardz….simply wonderful.
Something lifts. I think it’s a bit of relief , too.
So glad to read your post.
I have just recently and finally let go of things I didn’t even know were still there.
How much I needed to read, “Recently I have even stopped organizing threads and cloth and this and that “! I love organizing all my bits and bobs — but it takes so much time away from actually USING them to create something new and wonderful and life-giving. This post collided with my heart, opened it to a new way of thinking and doing. Thank you!
it works really and teaches something very vital for creative thought.
Yes, thank you for these thoughts.
this post names the unnameable. seeing life as a loosely drawn line, where any point can be the beginning… these words re-birth something in me. like the color chart, reconnecting with a moment in time. allowing the unfinished to rest. to wait. until…
I kind of love it unfinished too. The truth in that.
Before I knew it was a color chart, I thought that was a Papa Cardinal peeping around the corner! 🙂
The idea of a color chart, btw, is another one of your many genius ideas! Thank you for all your inspiration(s) and thank you for sharing yourself with all of us! 💕
Ha, I see it!
I am thinking there are many ways to make a color chart…
Thank you ❤️🔥
let’s be…
I love this post. You’ve expressed something so vital…something that really makes sense to me. Sometimes things align just right.
Or even not. I really said how I felt today, It came out perfectly how I sensed it. There is a relief in form that is true to the moment.
the chart
How great this seems to me today.
I really like this version of a color chart…I’m always pulled in by them, by color wheels, by paint samples…the matching and gradiated look…the possibilities in all of these. But just that. Just they way they feel to look at, not necessairly as a tool.
yes, just to look at. Just looking as a tool.
Beautiful, colorful scraps of one’s Self. Now the Synthesis.
evolution
Work loose. Make connections. Accept all.
Brings to mind a book called The Untethered Soul.
A loose book just describing bits of your process (even without any “how to” content) would nourish creative kindred spirits.
Beautiful Jahcardz (had to figure out the mouth 😂).
yeah, loose pages it will be.
And yes, something is ALWAYS brewing….😁
life is like making tea
Oh hey…love the scrap color nine chart 😍
yeah, it slipped my mind for a while, like 10 years…😂
Ha ha, 10 yrs….so happy to hear I’m not the only one!
( Why is it, that when I communicate w you, everything is/some nda like a song verse!? 🤔😅😂😍🎶
Maybe more!