sometimes, actually, a LOT of TIMES, when for whatever reason, i cannot fully go in to the sewing,  it helps me to just look at these things on the wall.  sometimes when i am doing other "activities of daily living", ADLs,  i come across a ripped out pic from a magazine;  now this is mostly national geographics and sometimes pics from the Gallery publication that they have at the airport here………….and i just pin them on the wall.  this particular one was there alone for a long time.  months.  then,  i was looking for a scrap and came across this very small little thing that came in a packet from Jude.  so that went on top of the ripped out paper pic.  then  just a couple weeks ago, this fragment from a piece of Deb Lacativa's cloth was lying on the table and i took it over to become the arch. 

it's beautiful, isn't it.         i won't ever use that fragment from Jude in a cloth…it's hers.  but what it will cause for me is that sometime, i will stitch some form onto a very small piece of something and it might have similar energetic spirit????? maybe.  

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the faces at the top are a cloth i lucked out in getting from Jude's shop.  i had watched it in it's evolving forms for a while and was totally surprised when it appeared in the shop.  it is an extraordinary piece of her Art and also had a lot of personal meaning to me…  it is called :          The Spirit of Self Deception    "a reminder that everything is not always pretty.  a playing card sort of thing, maybe a hand you dealt yourself"               

 

 

 

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8 responses to “cindy’s questions”

  1. Terri Avatar
    Terri

    LOVE your wall! Thanks for sharing, grace. And for being you. Happy Mother’s Day tomorrow. Love……

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  2. jude hill Avatar

    it is funny, this little scrap looks so big here.

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  3. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    it’s 2X2 3/8 inches.
    has BIG energy, BIG beauty, BIG is-ness. i never get
    tired of staring at it. over over over over and continuing

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  4. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Terri Happy Mother’s Day to YOU!

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  5. nance Avatar

    the art term for that is monumental… i’ve always appreciated that aspect of things. when something small is looked at as big and the other way around too… this is a lovely piece

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    in keeping with a conversation that is going around, including some
    over in Sun Moon and Stars…
    i think back of the days when i worked on the Admitting Unit of
    the University of Michigan’s Adult Psychiatric Hospital.
    We had intake interviews with the IP (identified patient) and
    family who were seeking admittance for their “loved ones”. So
    often, when it was the mother and or wife, the first comment
    family would make would be that she had Lost Interest in ADL’s.
    She was no longer interested in cleaning, having meals ready.
    Sorting laundry. often too, she would no longer work at her
    hair do, give up wearing make up.

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  7. judy keathley Avatar

    to say this is heartbreaking would be such a huge understatement….

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  8. cindy Avatar

    happy mother’s day grace!
    i think your backing and framing of this piece makes it shine.
    now that i can look at your wall in the daylight, without drooping eyes, it’s even more beautiful, the warm glowing colors, the moons, they are all separate thoughts that belong together. today i’m especially drawn to the big moon piece in the bottom middle. with it’s shadows against the rich colored weaving…i hope you’ll come back to it sometime. reminds me of a haiku i wrote in school “in a spider’s eye, the big of man and moon, is not so pretty”. it was during a darker time, now the bigness seems beautiful and full of possibilities.

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