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i found the little blouse.  the one that has the pattern on it that i need to draw so i can stop thinking about how someday soon, i will run out of it, use it up.  maybe that's why i lose it so often, why it sometimes just can't be found,  but then, is.

so there it is, hovering at the top of the right panel….

and it all DID start with those two thin strips of the latest from Deb Lacativa.  they made me hunt for the little blouse.  

the added strips of cloth on the upper side and top probably are not the ones that will stay there, or maybe they will, just in a different way?   as i write this, i get up and look and no, especially the dark horizontal one…needs to be light there. 

so…while all this is happening, i am somewhere in my brain holding Jude's latest words in Diaries, thinking in images.  am realizing that.  i think in images. 

and yes.  i took off  the butterfly that was there.  it is nesting in a small basket of scraps. 

so, off i go.  hopefully to post more changes later in the day.  i  ~~~~~~~~~love~~~~~~~this.

 

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24 responses to “uh~oh”

  1. Sandy Avatar
    Sandy

    Oh I LOVE it too! It is so full of goodness. I enlarge the photo and just stare. Something new always catches my eye. I had all my dyed pieces out yesterday- trying to piece together, like a puzzel and just didnt feel it. Brought in the rusted pieces today, laundered and all ready. For me, it feels like the background cloth, the foundation of my discovery cloth is the hardest part. Must persevere……

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  2. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    I can see completely the need for light at the top there… otherwise, its like the dark is containing the upward energy, too framed or something, at least that’s how I see it. Its good to feel your excitement…
    a small package will fly to you on Tuesday 😀

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  3. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    the dark horizontal stripe first seemed to me a little hard, but as I looked at the first picture of the whole cloth it seemed to form a sort of frame with the five moons and I think that works. I like these smal stripes, they look so fragile.
    Exciting to watch your work in progress…

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  4. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    that little bit is a fantastic print, no wonder you searched high and low.

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  5. Jacqui Avatar
    Jacqui

    Lately I’ve noticed in the garden when I’ve defined a path with rocks along its edge in order to separate walking access from the don’t step on the garden part, that it changes the whole feel of the area. Somehow it feels complete as if it was calling for an edge and didn’t know how to ask for it. Your cloth seems to have a whole new light in this area. It has asked and you have answered. Oh the magic of it all!
    Jacqui

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  6. Els Avatar
    Els

    Love how your work is growing and coming together ….
    Just these simple round lines are very effective !

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  7. Sandy Avatar
    Sandy

    oh Grace- today your post meant so much to me. I have just stopped for the moment to come and read it again. Your choice of words opened up a part of my brain that has been closed for too long. I have spent the afternoon with my cloth. I have processed idea’s and changed my mind 30 times. I have let go of the need to control myself when it comes to my creativity and by doing so, have opened yet another door. Thank You. @nd post just finished. Thank you for stopping by earlier. Thank you for being so open with us. xoxo

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  8. Henrietta Zielinski Avatar
    Henrietta Zielinski

    this is really moving along Grace. It’s so big when I think about what I’m doing, ha. Anyway, I really like the addition of the lines and the thinner pieces…really adds to the dimension and moves.

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  9. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I’ve been pondering how I think too…and I would say not in images, I don’t seem to hold an image in my mind of what I want to create. I think I start with an idea, a mood, a feeling…still thinking about it. Your cloth is becoming a magical garden to me…

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    that part was easy for me. the large center and then
    the two panels…all dyed this summer here. i was
    so happy with the colors
    just remember, jude does things often in pieces…atop
    just a large piece of cloth…
    there’s so much to think about. but that’s what i love.
    it’s endless…………..~~~~~~~~~

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    like very much your specific comment…too framed…
    it has gone back and forth through the day.
    to frame or not to frame
    EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee oh your voice will arrive!
    note: had the great good fortune of getting one of
    the last CDs of Valerianna’s. can’t believe my Luck!

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    well..no further ahead than i was this morning. when its
    gone, i want that dark horizontal. when it’s there, i
    take it off.
    what i have realized though is that the piece with the
    5 sun/moons would carry weight against anything else at
    all. it really is a cloth of it’s own, but still, i want
    it here. and it will stay. but trying to change that
    won’t work, ie can’t “balance”. i am learning a LOT
    at this point
    and yes. am seeing how thin arcs are very meaningful to me

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it’s like a one of a kind. an old hippy india import
    little blouse it’s so magic to me, the image, but also
    the cloth itself..it’s a really crinklie translucent
    rayon. i still can’t help myself. i LOVE some rayons.
    they have something nothing else has

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    love your comparison…yes…it IS like that isn’t it.
    this corner is going to be interesting

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    thanks, Els…thank you for coming by………

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    sandy…it’s happiness to see/feel your love of what you
    are finding…
    i just looked at your blog again and YES!!!!!
    xoxo

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    what you are doing is AMAZING…the shadow today, all of
    it…such a beautiful thing, your cloth…
    we’ll see here what comes. a very different thing….

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    for me it’s not any kind of whole image…but just
    fragments of things, very undefined
    but still, not words, not any kind of linear orderly
    thing…blurred image..? well, fragments is the best
    word to say it
    and again, that thing of Felt Sense. which IS an actual
    term from Eugene T. Gendlin…from his book Focusing.
    ….back to 1979.
    maybe i’ll read it again. i went to Chicago to workshops.
    love,

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  19. Margaret Johnson Avatar
    Margaret Johnson

    Hi Grace, just love the right hand panel. The woven circle at the bottom is beautiful. Marg. ox

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  20. Margaret Johnson Avatar
    Margaret Johnson

    P.S. Speaking of images, I always see in images, can’t for the life of me see things in words. Would be lovely to have that skill (gift).

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  21. jude Avatar
    jude

    well grace, looks like you kept the conversation going.

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  22. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    today i feel blank

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  23. jude Avatar
    jude

    me too, the quiet is overehelming

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  24. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    There’s a lot here, so much. I’ll just say that I like the ‘framing’ aspect…what if it was a darkness up there but maybe less rectangle…some curvy edges…
    Or maybe what if it was a darkness but in another color, less similar to the moons piece and the background…
    Just thinking…

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