Standing back, big looks smaller
keep at it
This is just photo play. I just cut and pasted to piece the images into one. Still a patchwork. Only to see the influence of touching. And the form the question might take. Sometimes this leads me forward . Sometimes it changes my path. Sometimes it changes my mind, it doesn't matter. This time it simply reminded me how small I am and how big the picture might be. How one thought might lead to another. How sharing that, the uncertainty, might help others be comfortable with questions.
I am catching up. A little out of sync. Deciding that’s okay (because I know it would be to you!) You remind me of my art teacher mother in this post — how you/she could and do push away the dross and reveal creativity for what it is — our birthright, a big open field. thank you for that. The difference between questions/curiosity and problem-solving — says it all, in a way, doesn’t it?
Love your striped shirt and the march of B&W checks on the rug as you talk about the cloth with the overlay. And I can’t wait to apply an overlay to a bunch of seemingly disparate components or to a cloth in progress that has been set aside, wanting!
gosh, you know, more and more it becomes my goal not to make the thing but to live in the place that gives birth to it. I think we should write that birthright into the constitution ! ha! it’s nice to have you here, considering.
Hello Jude! When you do the wrap stitch “flags” (they remind me of prayer flags) on the circle, are you using 2 strands of floss or something thicker?
2 strands here, but it might vary
I had to catch up some Posts. I started a new job… question, puzzels, enough to think about, zen… we go on a trip to China, so I want to prepare some cloth puzzels to bring along…. i would like to join part 2 and 3. Do i need to send e-mail?
I hope you have recieved your info
So interesting — I have a piece that I am a little stuck on. I can’t see what happens next. But maybe instead of looking at the stitched part, I could look at the space around it and wonder what happens there… Attach something new and see what comes of it.
yes, let it vibrate outward…
I learn so much here: it is not the goal to answer the questions but to live with this not being sure. It made “pling” in my head!
Thank you. Looking forward to part 2 . Love
feels good, right?
So loved this post. So much connection. I am so much an introvert and yet feel some companionship here. Making and thinking.
i think there are many introverts here. it is a strong caring community
the unspoken is no less felt.
Jude…
So sorry to trouble you about the password for part 2. I can’t find it. Please help.
Thanks…Billi
I love the idea of making a lot of loose patches that may combine into something someday. It takes some pressure off. Although I have to say the stories revealed to me while working on my “three-beings” piece in Part 1 have been so rewarding. I’ve received more from that piece than any work of art I’ve made before. Your instruction in thinking has helped so much!
“what happens when they touch?” Maybe a different answer each time… Love this post.
love that thought.. infinite solutions to the infinite puzzle
Tell me did this post make me cry. ❤️ All those cloths. Ditto about where I’m commenting. Now I’m feeling like a technical dodo
i cleaned up the comments and left this one. but now thinking i might have left them as loose patches, like steps that brought you here.
Thank you. ❤️
It’s exciting to see how small scraps become part of a stand-alone piece, then through questions how that piece becomes a component in a larger piece, and on and on. It makes me feel that, yes, I may actually be able to make a robe or a duvet cover someday! Loved the whole overlay concept, too.
it’s quite simple, like planting a garden…
Oh! The Possibilities!!
it’s really amazing how far you might go with a few small steps.
Now they look like 3 pagan magicians/shamans passing through time…maybe to help you find a new home. There are 3 so have a lot of strength together.
even when the story changes, I try to find a reason that makes sense to me, like you just did.
The asking of questions implies openness to unexpected answers and juxtapositions, which is where the gold is found. Your comment about seeking answers that make you feel clever shines a light on flip side….the vulnerability that is needed for true curiosity. I sometimes experience a kind of crustiness in the questions I ask and find it hard (scary) to be as open as I think my work needs.
this is so true, when I lose the judgement it helps, but it is hard to let go isn’t it?
love how those three eyes have changed the composition and the B&W ray becoming a magic feather, you are a magician!
those three squares in the figures as a result of weaving through, they seem like eyes at the moment.
I might have just had an epiphany,,I intensely listed and watched this video and thought life is like a magic carpet ride but that did not settle in right, then I thought ooh, my life is a patchwork, the seams sewn so that they can be seen, colours and textures give experience and interest, soft and pliable for comfort and strength.
Yes!!!
Beautiful, thank you. Have a good one.
the goal is not to answer the question, Questions,
there was a surge of urge to go find the Magic Diary Cloth…..could i?
i did. it IS here,
i’ll go hang it in the trees today
i am sitting in the company of many old cloths today
That last image of the pieces together would be amazing! 💙
it has given me some ideas
I like how the piece grows more horizontally!