here. ok. the thing is…
by jude
I so often feel that I don’t fit in.
Categories: sempathetic evolution, story • Tags: Story
Category Archives: story
Alphabet and a bit Wordy…
by jude
A. A is for Alphabet. When I worked in the textile industry, I began as a handweaver, weaving samples. Samples were necessary to show customers what pattern changes would look like. Designers created a group of of cloth constructions and woven patterns as ideas, presented them to the salesforce. And then the “salesfolks” would work with their customers and their customers would buy sample yardage to make up into sample garments and if they remained interested they might usually change […]
Categories: alphabet, natural order, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, story
Overdone
by jude
Often, I just can’t stop. I liked it simple actually, not that I don’t like what it became. I wrote a poem while I was just going. Actually, just words, what makes a bunch of words a poem? Maybe just how you see them? I had to look it up, if dreamed or dreamt was correct. I am not too good with knowing words. And then, dreamt just felt better. A lot of times, that is what language has become […]
Categories: SMALL CLOTH, story
Sometimes
by jude
Story I have been thinking a lot about story. And probably I will be talking about it more. A while back I created a story cloth that I called In The Same Boat. It is no longer with me here. Yesterday, suddenly another story began. Not In The Same Boat. I guess depending on your perspective, both stories could be true at the same time. Alone. We all can feel it. Even when we are not alone. Just like together. […]
Categories: just going, SMALL CLOTH, story, Stray Selves Series
april foolish
by jude
Selves, the basket, considered yesterday and the beast, consistently part of my story building. Because they are me, the character. I wonder how it is that we come to tell stories that we are not part of. Can they actually be true without being there? Is that like playing telephone? Suddenly growth. I looked at the potted plants this morning. A few cuttings brought from the old place. A few things rooted and potted up from groceries. Those avocados are […]
Categories: story
We Try to Understand
by jude
My hands, clasped. In case it isn’t immediately obvious. When we get up close, things transform. The change in perspective always interests me. Especially when you seem to lose what you are used to as the big picture. I took this picture to explain the stitches I took (skitch skatch) , this time to integrate the surprising yellow cloth with the silk self base. Whether or not I explain, a form results from what I might be thinking. In this […]
Categories: COMPOSITION, edges, SKITCH SKATCH, story, Stray Selves Series, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING
A Natural Occurrence
by jude
Sometimes new form is difficult. Not the birth of it, I think that just happens. The acceptance of it. That is often blocked by our choosing NOT to show it. I don’t know about you but I can say in all honesty, audience is a factor. Well, after all my years I know in my heart that is probably always true. There is a need to share, but we shape it. So new form is rare. Because it isn’t easy […]
Categories: Beast, COMPOSITION, direction, Naming Things, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, story, Stray Selves Series, Symbols and Motifs, sympathetic evolution
Loose but Connected
by jude
Yesterday looser
Categories: COMPOSITION, design mending, drawing on cloth, Loose Pages, REAL JOURNAL, story, THOUGHT CATCHING
not quite
by jude
Never quite there. I had this in my mind all weekend. Mostly because of how things have been going for me. But then after talking to my son who works so hard and is so tired and is still trying to figure out the best path forward. It was comforting in some way to know that such frustration might span generations and that it’s not just that I am getting old. Life is simple really. It is just complicated. We […]
Categories: Garden, Spirit Cloth 101, story, Yesterdays