by jude
There is fog here. After a lot of rain. And now a bit of winter moving in. It is grey and dark. And the man is still sleeping. It looks dull but you can feel the season vibrating beneath the surface. I am sorting through this old basket of scrap. It’s big, this basket, and stuff gets tossed in when I need to tidy up. It is a cloth/thread nest. Bugs get in and so does dampness and dust. It’s […]
Categories: Cloth, Reconsidering, Spirit Cloth 101
by jude
There’s just no end for my love of light through a cat’s ear. Soul-o has become a ham. The dye po(e)t was out on the porch all winter and became a bit of a compost pail. It froze and thawed over and over. much of the liquid evaporated. I will add some back and boil it up today. I hope to build an outside fire pit soon.
by jude
Cloth seems to have a memory. The kind we have. But actually cloth does have it’s own kind of memory. Retaining a lot about how it was handled, worn and rescued. Loved. Ha! Like us then… I finally “finished” this one. Because it feels like enough. Even though it seems like I could mend it into being forever. In Memory of our Michelle. I notice how my eyes come to rest after a while, on the Karma-Patch. There is true […]
by jude
To begin. From scratch. Let’s call it Skratch. For fun. Nothing wrong with lightness. Play. The first step seems like well, draw something on cloth. But really, let’s go backwards a bit. I think I should talk a little bit about cloth first, for it is the base on which we will work. And then it will be part of how we might continue. And then thread, I need to say a bit about thread. And mark making tools. Right? […]
Categories: RECONSIDERING Skitch Skatch, SKITCH SKATCH, TOOLS AND MATERIALS