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i feel like driving into town and buying ingredients for White Russians:  vodka, cream, kahlua. instead, i'll post these pics.

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this is the ghost, or spirit butterfly, after the design on my Tshirt.  which wasn't a butterfly but made me think of how it could be.  it doesn't look like much here and took me forever but i like the idea of it.  actually, i like It.  it depicts what i had in mind.

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and here it is in this whole "room"…..which remains a mystery to me.  i arranged and rearranged without any real changes.  i almost took off the moon.  it feels stark.  but then, stark feels right.  the two long strips at the bottom….WHY? i wonder.  but, they too remain.

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and this.  Again, why?  no answer.

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and here is the lightning and toad eggs for Marti to see.  has afternoon Sun on it.  i did a lot of really little stitching on the "circle", which in my mind, is "the way It really is". 

i don't know how Georgia and my Nepali friend got up at the top.  they were supposed to the the last pic.  but everytime i came over here to see what was going on at the MotherShip, there they were, watching me, having thoughts.

 

 

 

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  1. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    the essence of butterfly. nice.

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  2. jude Avatar
    jude

    i fought back the desire for some red wine tonight, instead i went and got an external hard drive so i can move some crap off my machine and make some room.
    i like the new stitching. the density difference gives it a feel of substance but then transparency. appearing and disappearing. and it has a nice new and unique style to it. nice.

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  3. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i haven’t had a White Russian for about, hmmmm, 20 years?
    more? it was funny that i thought of them today. all
    those hours. all those tiny stitches.
    i like the image too. what i am beginning to learn now,
    at this point, is how literal i want or do not want to
    be with things. so, this is a good span of time with it.
    i am going to put together some layers of cloth and
    just sit and practice stitches. i am still clumsy and
    uneven. i just did it on the cloth without marking any
    thing first. maybe i should. that might help me. but
    mostly, it’s the practice, i think. the doing and doing
    and doing. and that just takes
    doing.

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  4. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes. essence is one of my favorite concepts.

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    sometimes just a pencil line or two. for reference. 

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  6. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    I agree, nothing wrong with pencil marks…and Grace your pencil marking skills are so good…I’m surprised you don’t draw more often on fabric.

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  7. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    Minutia, one of my favorite words because in that small word, a world can exist… Sunlight on toads eggs and I SEE them with a joyful reverence. Fitting that Georgia and Nepali woman at the top of this post, their direct gaze, looking deeply, not needing maybe to know the why of things, enough to know that they see all that is before them as we do here. Toad eggs, lightning and the oh so ethereal yet solid thread-span of the spirit butterfly. Small things, large in totality.

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  8. ali Avatar
    ali

    faces watching, keeping company…butterfly spirit beats strongly. a wonder to watch the unfolding~thanks for sharing

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  9. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar
    Drucilla Pettibone

    white russians are my favorite drink, but they don’t agree with me any more..
    your rooms feel to me like a secret language. and they are making me see in such a new way!!!

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  10. Yvonne Avatar
    Yvonne

    The opposing density and direction of the stitch on the butterfly creates a tension that seems to hold it afloat – and seems right in keeping with a room of mystery.

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  11. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    My first drink out with friends after I turned 21 was a White Russian. I got a really bad stomach ache that night (no I wasn’t drunk…it was the only thing I had). Never tried one again. Love your “spirit butterfly,” it makes me think of becoming… Also thinking about wrinkles.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    if i draw more, it’s a drawing.
    i want it to be a clothing.
    it’s a real challenge, not to draw. but…maybe…..

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    ;uie (M)
    yes. small but large.
    it becomes the same thing, doesn’t it.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    thanks to you for being here.

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    bummer, huh. sorta. no “spirits” agree with me anymore
    so…cloth it is.
    THANK YOU for those words…”like a secret language”…
    they are secret to me too, as i try to learn them

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    “creates a tension”….yes!…good, yes!
    i want to know more about this…
    THANK YOU FOR THESE WORDS

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    aren’t they just stunning with their “marks”?!.?!!
    i think i look like Georgia. and the other woman, who
    so unselfconsiously decorates herself….something to
    learn there
    Try the White Russian again. your stomach has matured.

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  18. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    This fits in so perfect here…the line we all used to say when my daughter was young and taking lots of dance classes…we used to say the girls were “puttin’ in time at the bar” – considering the white russians and all Ha
    But, I think you are right. It’s the practice. I feel clumsy too.
    I think Jude had a good point about the density.
    And I surely like those piled up rectangles (4th pic). I think I’m finding out I really like collage expressed in many ways.

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  19. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Everything deserves a second chance, so yes I will try one again. I think you’ve only posted the one picture of yourself here, but yes, I see how you look like them… The wrinkles are just fantastic. I’ve been thinking about how we use “wrinkle” in the context of something unexpected, usually a problem. 🙂

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. i have had these two women in front of me for many
    years. they guide my days.
    and i sometimes notice my own beginning wrinkles with
    some dismay. you’d think not, but well, vanity.
    but recently, i am noticing how i am “loosening” from
    this physical frame. not because of anything except
    days going by.
    i have begun
    Dancing every day.
    i dance
    to the oh so beauty Full Zoe Keating Into the Trees
    that Michelle of NYC turned me on to
    this is when i wish the little boy Julian, 2 years, were
    here, or i were there. no dancing is as great and
    WonderFull than when with a very new human being. i used
    to dance with my kids. we would fold back the diningroom
    table and go nuts. we danced like Isadora Duncan..just
    free form, wild, cloths flying like Chinese dragons. nice.
    skip the White Russians. was just being the devils
    advocate

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…wouldn’t you know it.
    Dance,
    yup.
    and yes. it’s the sense of density or not.
    i am watching/learning/trying to understand things that
    i have not taken the time to do so before. i like it.
    even if there are no
    answers

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  22. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I love to think of you dancing. I dance with the little ones often and I agree, it is the best.

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    i wish i had a movie of it. really.
    it would look very crazy, but would be so totally
    inspiring of
    permission
    for any one to dance themselves into oblivion.
    and yes. dancing with little ones. THE BEST.
    so, you go for it tomorrow, ok?

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  24. serena Avatar
    serena

    so instead i’ll post some pics. 😉 the nature of adaptability

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    i’ll come look. birds of a feather…….

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  26. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    I love the butterfly essence.
    And I used to like Sunbreros, but now I guess I’d have to have it with soy or coconut creamer, and since I don’t like it and can’t handle alcohol, I’d rather have a hazelnut latte. Oh, but I DO like the way the sunlight made your circle a crescent moon in the last photo.

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    it is a crescent moon, isn’t it. i hadn’t realized.
    and how perfect, because that’s how it goes for those Spade Foot
    toads that i have made Marti love. moons and storms bring
    the very singular moments for them to rise up, make love, and
    put those eggs out for repetition and regeneration.
    here’s a hazelnut latte to Us!, toads and All.

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  28. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I wait for your posts, look for them. Tonight I have deep sorrows and still-perspective, still-love. Someone was wounding and dismissive today, and it collapsed my sails for hours. But, after some poetry work, a good supper, and finally reading my favorite posts–love your every minutia, stitches, conversations and speculations. Now I’m righted. I have dark Leonard Cohen on my mind tonight, access to his new album was the second item on yesterdays post, which past without comment. Your dancing image made me think of this number from his tour (though it’s nothing like the picture you painted with your words).
    DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE
    http://youtu.be/__ebR_8UKAY

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  29. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Yay! your essence in flight, you go girl!

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  30. sandra Avatar
    sandra

    Thanks for talking about Zoe Keating, I’d never heard of her, I went straight to you tube, Wow!!!
    Love what you are doing here on your cloth, the butteflies.

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  31. manya Avatar
    manya

    true, true..this is so true is what was going through my head reading this. also/ that butterfly is very flight

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  32. manya Avatar
    manya

    looking at what i wrote..no, it isn’t vodka, just lots of homer! xx

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  33. Marie Avatar
    Marie

    Love your pictures of Georgia O’keefe…Her work inspires me and I just pulled out an old
    cloth yesterday that I stitched up in honor of her.
    Also, loving the Nepalese woman…connections there for me too!
    ❤

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  34. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    You are dancing again…you are dancing and I see it, and I can’t begin to tell you how I feel about all of this because you know how I am about dance: besides the field wandering, it is dance that sustains me, anchors yet frees. For me, dance pulses in my blood stream, in times of joy, in times of sorrow, in times of perplexity, in times of feeling that ole twang of sensuality, in times of sheer abandon, in times of homage…
    From Gabrielle Roth:
    “To embody spirit…the first thing that we must do is free the body from all its conditioning in a very literal way. We need to physically free the body, wake it up and get it back into motion and fluidity. As soon as that happens, we start to feel, our emotional world is enlivened and we begin to deal with our fears, our angers, our sorrows and our joys. We get a feeling of what compassion might be about. We learn to express the heart. To get to know the wildness of the heart and to learn how to express it in creative forms, so that we can be spontaneous and authentic in the moment with each other.”

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  35. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    It seems my comment of yesterday went away!
    What I said: Love the butterfly essence and the way the light in the bottom photo makes your circle into a crescent.

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  36. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…it’s still there …. above…..

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  37. grace Avatar
    grace

    well, it past because it put me in a mood…you might
    know that i still dance in the same house where i lived
    with a combination of Leonard and Willy DeVille. and
    THAT’S!!!!!where the thought of the white russian came
    from…to quote someone we know, HA! i have a weakness
    for Leonard. when he says Dance Me, i whisper quietly
    in my self, ..”ok”…………..
    my eyebrows shoot up!!!..WHO/WHY??!! could someone wound
    and dismiss??? well…you knew the antidote.
    xoxoxoxooxoooooo

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  38. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    well, i did have wine last night & sat and looked at these. and about ghost stitching, before reading the words- thought birthing butterfly, ghosting or transforming. and liked how i didn’t know, that all were possible and beautiful.
    and reading the comments- dancing- remembering a time i polka-ed with a 4 yr. old while waiting for his brother to be born & how janie & i would sachet-slide so big & fast in a virginia reel together while our class clapped loud and big & then joined in. thanks for that memory.

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  39. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    am going to take some of it apart today

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  40. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes! Zoe Keating…talk about magic and the Into the
    Trees is perfect for freeformcrazyoldishladydancing
    you are young, but you can have something to look
    forward to

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  41. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    love that…”very flight” and well, isn’t that
    exactly what they are….

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  42. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    aren’t they just the epitomy of Woman

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  43. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    and you have dancing words
    you are a Real dancer. me, only in the privacy of my
    own home…it’s really goofy.

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  44. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    “i liked how i didn’t know, that all were possible”
    THIS IS THE BEST.
    well, one day in the Sweet Bye and Bye, you and i and
    Janie and Georgia maybe even, for sure Marti
    will sachet and slide and i’ll show you some of my
    secret moves

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  45. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    being able to remove the mark to a ghost of tiny holes that can be eased out is one of the finest things about stitching!

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  46. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes! i just did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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