the central vein on the pepper leaves are straight. but now, all new leaves look like this????
Mexican Elderberry
Desert Willow
a volunteer. have no idea which kind ?
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a ripply vein. maybe a little worm is weaving a tunnel.
don’t you just love the desert willow. i had 2 of those trees but they are both gone. one was struck by lightning and the other just split in two one day and died. i used to love seeing the flowers fall on the green grass. it looked so magical.LikeLike
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I am really liking this arrangement of the cloth Grace. I realize this type of sewing evolves and so the visual balance need not be there from the get-go (Or maybe ever, depending on what you want, need, like). But I like a bit more balance, even in the beginning and this feels like that. I also like the eye there as it pulls My eye in to explore that section. Gives a big focus (pardon the pun!) to the piece as a whole, but does not detract from the little side trips to the smaller pieces scattered around the perimeter. Reminds me of an approach in lesson planning called ‘webbing’ – which is lesson plans drawn out as in a spider’s web…Where each part grows from, is supported by and scaffolds the learning from the center focus. Really anything can be the center and really anything can evolve to support and expand that learning. And of course- the Whole Web is Connected…with an element of multi-directional travel and learning. Whew!!!
I say all of this because lately so much of your ponderings here have been related to you watching, observing, patiently waiting to see what will come. I see that eye as a big part of Grace.
Grace who Watches.
I really like what you have going here. So wish I had finished pieces to add to something Big. But, alas, I do not. So, my sewing evolves very differently.
Beautiful flowers. I too love to photograph nature. The pepper leaf is especially interesting. Right away it said “Life is a crooked trail”!!!
Now I am off to problem solve a little weaving that did not end well! I do not really want to start over, so I’ll see what I can make of it!
Sorry for rambling on so!LikeLike
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we call them mind maps at our school- i love planning in this way…thinking seems to go this way for me, too
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better and better, or more & more (magical). grace, i love your ability to just be with the cloth, looking & listening to it and yourself- before committing to anything. i tend to cannon ball in.
would love to see that squiggly leaf stitched up.LikeLike
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last year you had that crazy tomato… this year its the wiggly leaf. i like the leaf and agree with deanna that it would be beautiful stitched up. ok i have been unable to see the difference between the cloth at the beginning of the post and the cloth at the end? or is it just there to say that cloth is the beginning and the end of everything? and i really love the dessert willow.
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Yes maps. Maps are good! There are many interesting books on amazon that connect art & mapping. Ooooo – love ’em! I have this one:
http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Here-Geographies-Imagination/dp/1568984308/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1308789257&sr=8-2
So fascinating…and inspiring when you think of them with stitch!LikeLike
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I couldn’t either…but the eye remained center stage! And I always wonder about that wood (?) sculpture off to the right. It looks beautiful and touchable! Tell us Grace! SMILE 🙂
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love the eye! and the skirt on the flower…i would wear that.
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yes! i’ve checked that out of the library before. i love maps, but am terrible spacially. have you looked at
http://www.redstonestudios.com/LikeLike
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really liking your sample wall. i love doing mixed media collage and trying out all you fabrics in different positions is a lovely way to pull your ideas together. your work space looks so warm and friendly. the plants, love the desert willow. ox
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WOW! Love it!
I am not so great spacially either, but love some of the different ways of thinking of maps, like the body, which could be expressed originally and through art. I have checked out this one from the library. Liked it – didn’t have time to get through all of it though.
http://www.amazon.com/Maps-Imagination-Writer-as-Cartographer/dp/1595340416/ref=pd_sim_b_2
My daughter drew a map of the exterior of her school when she was 3 yr old. She was amazingly spot on! Maybe I should blog that since I can’t sleep anyway! Ha!LikeLike
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I love what Nance said about the cloth being the beginning and end the of everything…and the eye…that eye…it really ~looks~.
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sorry – ‘the end of everything’ not ‘end the of everything’!
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I love your plant photos .. and I love the way your cloths evolve .. I’ll be watching .. and I like your words too!!! 🙂 I love the big space that you have to work in!!!
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their maps are so cool… love the little keys all around the edges especially. they do remind me of your cloth, grace…
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I LOVE that wall…. and the eye at the center. and all the beauty in your garden…. and yes, maybe a teeny tiny worm is borrowing down the vein-highway?
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hello Grace….what a beautiful flower the Desert willow is…I have never seen one before…
…watching…waiting…seeing…believing…hoping…drifting…LikeLike
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over half of the trees that i’ve planted died this last
winter. this particular desert willow remained quite
fine. one died and two are beginning again from the
bottom. they are like orchids i always think. it’s
interesting though that they don’t seem to attract many
insects or birds. the hummingbirds are disinterested.LikeLike
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first, i LOVE rambling. so please, feel free!!!!!!!!!!
and the Webbing, or Clustering, YES!!!! i had just
found that book this very day! YES!!!!!
but the “side trips to small pieces, scattered”…i like
that and this central eye precludes that..
it’s no longer there.LikeLike
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to all above, am going to look for these
THANK YOU!!!!!!!LikeLike
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dRU…that is wonder full …..the keys, YES. that was
almost my favorite partLikeLike
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well, it’s just continuing …………
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at beginning and end…an accident. i made a mistake.
well…i think this squiggle is due to something “not
good”. maybe a virus, is what i’m thinking. but they
look ok outside of that?, so it might just be the intense
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it’s the work of the father of one of the people i work
for. he has died, and the person’s wife wanted to thin
out all of his wood things. so…they all came here.
there are 4 chairs outside. i refer to it as the
LeeSeum…his dad’s name is Lee. This is a carving from
Oregon wood. it is beautiful, isn’t it. sensual.LikeLike
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vicky…the “skirt on the flower” ….what a totally
beautiful way to say it/see it!!!!!
there are MANY on a tree. it’s pretty amazing.LikeLike
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it IS friendly. it is like my nest, in it’s entirety.
it is the first place really that has been singularly
and totally completely MY space…interesting what that
gives rise to…LikeLike
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looks kinda outward and inward at the same time?
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YES. my daughter and i did that big space. we really
had no idea what we were doing, just borrowed a Sawzall
and cut a huge hole out of the side wall and went from
there. only in New Mexico.LikeLike
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could be a worm, yes. well, everyone needs some place to
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Leslie…THANK YOU FOR COMING BY!!!
watching waiting seeing believing hoping drifting
these are beautiful words you bring me…THANK YOU so
much for them
and from Sierra Leone, no less…that always just
amazes me. xoxoLikeLike
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i can’t seem to get the reply button to work lately… so…thank you nancy and handstories(linda?) for the map books and site. i ordered one of the books today.
and grace… i think its the heat… the rest of the plant seems ok? maybe if the peppers seem weird, i would reconsider… you never know what is being tested around that area…LikeLike
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might be. but it IS what it IS. they are getting blooms so we’ll see. but, the peppers bloom like the tomatoes.
if it’s too hot, the blossoms bend at a 45 degree and
fall. it needs to be hot during the day and then cooler
at night for the blooms to set. i know there is stuff
you can use to help with this but i always like them to
work it out on their own. i think they like me to work stuff out on my own too. so, we just watch.LikeLike
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Yes Grace that describes it!
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More like, right into the heart…you know….like children do when they stare at you. It also looks kind.
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Buzz…thank you SO MUCH for seeing the eye as
kind
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