I trust in form
by jude
However it happens. It is so much about season. And so are we.
Categories: natural order, PAPER WORK, sympathetic evolution, temple
Category Archives: sympathetic evolution
Yesterday was May
by jude
There was a bit of sweaty stitching yesterday. It reached 94 here. This morning 57. I didn’t want to cover the original embroidery so I worked the 2 points with thread. Deb thread. It was a slow challenge, I love this appearing and disappearing. I used what I call the wrap stitch. There is a lot of old cloth around here, I have ideas. I watched a squirrel friend fall prey to a fox friend. There wasn’t much else I […]
Categories: design mending, LIFE AND STORY, sympathetic evolution, the wrap
Three Deep
by jude
I placed my Deep Pool of Thought over a Nest of Days so I might Reconsider Freedom. Gee, that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? From the side, Three cloths deep, but many more moments… It became a Medicine wheel Basket. In my mind. Not a shield but a deep pool of holding some sort of personal order. And acceptance. Of what might be but maybe never will be. And I can rest in that, the imagined. The form that arises if […]
Categories: Basket, COMPOSITION, Deep Pool of Thought, layers, Looking, Nest of Days, Symbols and Motifs, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING, walls
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
another loose page
by jude
Categories: Loose Pages, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING
Always Reconsider
by jude
Never be too sure. The ability to change your mind is a never ending opportunity to learn. Especially from each other. Fencing for the garden. That I had decided not to do. For now, I need to stay off my feet. The garden will wait. So I continued stitching this leaf to celebrate growth. And to what I learn at every turn. I had two small slices, not quite halves, of circles leftover from something else… folded the edge of […]
Categories: fold and stitch, Garden, MAKING DO, Pairing, seams, split backstitch, sympathetic evolution
I Don’t Know
by jude
I woke up thinking I don’t know. There wasn’t even any question. And then I put this picture here because I don’t know who or what it is. And it doesn’t matter. First time growing nasturtiums. They like it here. Some leftover moon/eclipse bits. Cobbled together, poof, a leaf. I like how a leaf and an eclipse might work together as a concept. I am not sure how…
Categories: fold and stitch, Garden, LIFE AND STORY, Pairing, PATCHWORK, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING
Thought Catching: Personal Order might not be a Map
by jude
I continue with the game of chasing form. Form contains how it happened. I usually say. Form still contains how it happened even if I don’t say. I want to express how personal that is. Finding that thread. Giving form to what arises through thought. Sense. Experience. The transformation that depends on so much that goes beyond technique. It is difficult to share, and then, explain that at the same time. Sometimes when I see the “sameness” across the […]
Categories: questions, sympathetic evolution