by jude
Whenever I seem confused, lost or simply stranger than normal, I know I am growing. In these times there is no way to explain the state of things. When one (thing) is becoming another. It has been a while so I have had a tough time remembering the beauty in it. I was just looking this morning. I had created a new base, or playground, as I often refer to them. And, well, I became more aware of recurring images […]
Categories: Symbols and Motifs
by jude
The photo is blurry. As imagining can sometimes be. Maybe needs to be. Always is. Elusive. Always flowing. Just going. Building starts small. I love the sheer moon, like looking through a time window. Some sort of layer of perspective. Not stitched, just a place keeper for now. A yesterday. And a tomorrow. Both. Held by nothing. That is so comforting. What is it that encourages us to imagine new worlds? Not money methinks. I posted on Instagram yesterday. I […]
Categories: Basket, Reconsidering, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs
by jude
I stitched a bit this morning, did a video that didn’t work out, and now , really, I need a few days to do my taxes. I like how the little nine, (my safety net) was transferred to the different elements in this story. How the alignment isn’t a straight line and how that leads the eye anyway. And the top one looks as if it is evolving into an eye.
Categories: SMALL CLOTH, Symbols and Motifs
by jude
I like this double form. The double wishing star. I am thinking it might work for many things, a compound nested symbol. Something framed by itself. It gives the form a kind of depth. Perspective. Personal symbols are a picture language and life is complicated.
Categories: framing, LIFE AND STORY, Soul-o, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs, wishing star
by jude
Yesterday was a beautiful day. Seems different here. OR. Since we moved, I feel different. Is it the place? Or just the course of events. After all, the world seems to have turned upside down just shortly after moving in. I can almost mark my calendar with it. Add to it all that has generally happened. The things that life brings. Funny how we find reasons for things. When there aren’t really any, except change. Funny how we notice some […]
Categories: Blog, DYEING, fringe, Indigo, nine, Stray Selves Series, Symbols and Motifs
by jude
I am happy to see so many bees. I look forward to next year’s garden now that I am a bit more familiar with what will grow here. Rain barrels are the next project. And maybe an ark… just sayin’… The red line is drawn. Stitched. Pressed into the cloth, It seems the beginning of a basket. I sense so many here already. And the line came through. I had spread it on the floor, to look. Covered in cat […]
Categories: Basket, circle, COMPOSITION, Eyes, field, Garden, Grow, LARGE CLOTH, LIFE AND STORY, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs, the other side, THOUGHT CATCHING, What if (?)
by jude
Humid, way hot, yet turning. The light begins to seep through the tired foliage. We are opening to autumn. I am back to the circle that I drew on Grow, tracing the edge of the round glass table it sits on. Maybe it just defined my current reach. Now red, like a ring of fire.
Categories: centering, circle, COMPOSITION, direction, dividing space, dots, drawing on cloth, edges, Grow, Season, split backstitch, STITCH, Symbols and Motifs
by jude
Yesterday’s Heart was so Sure a piece in the ever growing Sanity series that suddenly came together just yesterday. I went back to find a loose note to self I remember so clearly. But I can never find exactly where it is kept. So I wrote it down again. Because I am right here, today, chasing it in a new way and also trying to redefine how heart is slowly becoming a personal symbol apart from the mainstream sugar. And […]
Categories: COMPOSITION, design mending, Heart, natural order, PATCHWORK, Reconsidering, Sanity, Symbols and Motifs, THOUGHT CATCHING
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