(First of all, I don't know what's going on with the comments. I'm going back and forth with Typepad. They don't see a problem, but while I can read them within the host site, I can't see or respond to them on the blog. Also, photos still come and go on whims. I really don't know what to do other than keep going until I can't.
Update: At the moment, I can see and reply to this post's comments, but not older ones...sigh, and onward...)
The piece above- "There is So Much" was made with some cloths that I dyed in a couple of workshops over the years. Don't remember all of the how's. Cyanotype, potato paste resist, other things? One thing that I've really been enjoying is finding marks in the fabrics and finding ways to continue them. You can see it in the light blue vertical stack stitched lines and the squiggling line around the moon. I like pushing myself to find a way to make connections.
Most of my cloths are unplanned, just goings, but then the other day, doodling..
I've been drawing things coming out of heads, moons, trees since college (The margins of my Western Civ notes were jammed with similar sketches). What was new was a wondering if I could create it in cloth? I think it was the weekend mending's influence.
It didn't go quite how I wanted, but the basic idea was there.
The next morning's attempt with eyes closed.
And it made it past the moment of "never mind".
Still going... and wondering what all I'm trying to say to myself. Something good, I think, about there being so much, who we can be, and the choices we might make.
