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space as a component~ as a place to be

it started on monday (or before) but on tuesday i wrote something in Diaries comments about the post of tie ing in…and as it goes for me, as i was writing, i began knowing what i was thinking.

i was thinking something about a tree.  i said there, a ghost tree.  but it is really a spirit tree.  a ghost tree is different.   and then,  shortly after, i went over to Michelles in NYC and watched the first two of LatchoDrom.   and i knew.   Why a tree appearing in this?  i don't know.  yet. 

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but it's begun.  kantha.          it is a tree like the desert willow here, like the mountain oak in Northern California.  slender trees,  able to accomodate their surroundings, or is it their surroundings accomodate them?  but there is a compatability.  a companionship.  an ease.

so..lots of stitches to come.  will branch through the center panel.  bottom to top.  and then, this morning,  Michelle does it again with today's post.

 

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22 responses to “space as a component~ as a place to be”

  1. Yvonne Avatar
    Yvonne

    I like how you are using the texture of kantha for the bark of the tree and how it is emerging from the cloth, not with a drawn outline – like a spirit appearing.

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  2. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    yes, a spirit tree shimmering into being, branching out & bringing together.
    i dreamt about you last night. all of us came to your place for a retreat, the focus was carding wool, women and wool everywhere. it was wonderful. we were all so happy and busy, great big armloads of wool & cranking carders, blending & creating colors.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    beautiful!

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    here it comes.

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  5. nance Avatar
    nance

    well a tree… i can think of an important tree in your life; maybe its commemorating that one. or maybe trees to come. michelle’s blog is the most unique blog i have ever seen… always something useful on it and in a variety of forms. music photos movies essays new links… how does she do it?

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I LIKE WHAT YOU LIKE SO WE LIKE TOGETHER-I SEE WHAT YOU SEE THEN WE SEE TOGETHER-A FEELING TOGETHER THAT WE HAVE TOGETHER-I LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE WHAT WE LOVE TOGETHER-TOGETHER WE’RE BIRDS OF THAT ONE ‘MAGIC’ FEATHER.
    :-}

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  7. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    of course, stitches.
    i am working on a tree too….
    we have a tree across the street we get to enjoy…it has a beautiful shape to it, like michelle in nyc’s tree…

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  8. Jeannie Avatar
    Jeannie

    There is something about trees that draw me in. I see human forms or animals. There is an ancient cherry tree where I walk and I see a woman with her hip extended as if to balance a babe. Your Kantha stitching is so beautiful and is capturing the spirit of the tree.

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  9. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hi Grace, lovely to see this close up. I think the Kantha stitching is perfect for capturing the essence of a tree. I imagine that this will look beautful spreading around your moth and moon. I haven’t tried this stitch yet but am looking forward to trying it. I’m hoping to do my next diary piece, quite different to my last pieces. LOVE your work. oxoxoxoxoxo
    P.S. my interpretation of a tree is over at sew forum at the moment.
    P.P.S. I LOVE TREES

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  10. henritta Avatar
    henritta

    Grace, I see a lot of movement here. The eye pop’s from the surface, but I see also an aerial view of the top of a bird’s head…where what appears to be the cloth that is not attached – wings (can you see it), maybe a leaf in the upper right corner, moon/sunlight…it’s almost like a small environment with/within the tree. maybe it’s also a tree of life?

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    thank you…this is good, then….it is not a “real”
    tree, but the essence of a tree, or
    tree ness?

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    shimmering. good word to arise right now…leads back,
    for me to a moment long ago that taught me so much.
    i wish your dream was Real, what would that be like, i’m
    thinking…i have carded wool. it is a very sacred set
    of movements.
    for so long i wanted Churro sheep. i wanted to make felt.
    Did we make FELT? was it THICK?, like for a yurt?
    i am honored to be in your dreamtime………

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    as is your mantle of Hearts.
    He wears it so well.
    How this must feel for you. so thankful to know you
    and be gifted with your sharing of this…

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    oh, Jude….

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    no. not a particular tree. all of them have what they
    Have. the old oak with my rope swing when i was 4, the
    wild cherry and apple, pear, weeping willow of that
    childhood, the fallen logs of that time too…just on
    the earth, the One over the creek. the pines.
    and on…everywhere since, there have been trees.
    in this Real estate Video from Jenny i mentioned in Diaries, those
    trees
    and i burn wood
    to keep warm
    for a long time i have been very care~full about my
    tree thoughts

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    you see then you show me and i see too and tell you
    and then you begin to know to
    watch?
    we also have the same plant.

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    shape

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes!, trees have hips
    talking heads song: World moves on a woman’s hips
    did you look at those first two Latcho Drom on Michelle’s
    blog?????

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  19. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    YES!…i love your tree there.
    and kantha. it is such a gift to me, knowing about it.
    i have used it to represent many things actually, and
    it is All of them…i guess it is just Spirit for me.

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  20. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    LOVE this. am going to save it for morning and read again and then go look.
    thank you for this….~!~

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  21. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    I read Nance’s comment as a family tree. The tree that is pulling its branches in a bit and sinking new roots. Like I said recently about the spaces of your cloth…room for more of what is to come. I am not you, but these are the feelings I get from your words and revelations and your cloth.

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  22. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    i’m sure we were about to make felt. the details were blurry, just the noisy happy productive jostling sounds of women getting things done together.
    in the rocky moment of of living in boyland this evening, i thought, “i wonder what train leads to grace? and how much cloth should i pack?” just knowing you were out there was a comfort.

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