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since the goats arrived, everything has been different.  all the same things, just in different order i guess.  and in all that,  working on the Diaries Cloth has taken on a strong pull.  even if it's just a line or two of Kantha,  i find myself going over to her several times a day.  since people have been showing up, the door hasn't been on the table,  the table now sometimes having …food.  or coffee.

so the cloth is just bunched there.  the right panel that i am finishing with kantha is the only part of her spread flat, and just the 6 or 8" that i'm working on.  so it's been very different.  and as i stitch, often standing, i find my gaze drifting to the shapes of the  rest of the cloth…not flat in the "story of the rooms", but in a topography of stitch, color, form:

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so…i'll be finished with the kantha on this side very very soon. 

Then…for the first time in weeks, i'll pin her back up on the wall.  see what has happened.  see where to go next.  most likely begin the kantha on the lft panel.

but as i look at the stitching and shapes against one another, i am seeing so many Different,  singular, small cloths.  i am loving having reached this point.  there is a devotion to the work, now.

 

 

 

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24 responses to “different”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    “there is a devotion to the work, now.” – devotion is sOmething big….
    I like seeing the cloth in a different way, it expands from “wall image” and can have so many different shapes. Its almost like water – changing shape to fit the environment – never thought of cloth as water, something to pond-er.
    ^;^

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  2. Sandy Avatar

    It looks amazing….. I would love to hold it….. the textures must feel so nice against the skin.
    Baby girl kid is the most precious baby goat I have ever seen.
    xo Sandy

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  3. nance Avatar

    grace… have you ever been snorkeling? i knew there was something this reminded me of… tis taken a long time for the thought to surface… probably a deep underwater thought…. but the kantha is what the sand sometimes looks like on the bottom of the ocean. all the little ripples. as if the stitching came from deep unconscious thoughts…. or thought forms rising to the surface.
    i love it that you have progressed this far with your cloth… and life. you are amazing to me. so glad i know you.

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  4. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    Noticing the smaller cloths that make up the whole is like noticing the first strands of a clump of feather grasses…Taken individually, a moment in time; all together, a timeline of story and place.

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  5. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Sandy…so….What Are You Going To Do?????????
    is it a mystery?????
    i hope you continue to come by now and then as you can…
    andreally, what are you going to do????????
    xoxo

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  6. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    no…but i love this image, this thought…Thank You for
    it…………

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  7. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes, and this way, they are not really literal images,
    just stitch, texture and color, this up against that.
    it’s really energizing

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  8. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    cloth as water…yes. similar to nance’s response…
    interesting…….
    bringing to mind that incredible book…a Rudolph Steiner
    press….
    Sensitive Chaos
    the Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air
    by Theodor Schwenk
    i need to spend a little time with that book…yes.

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  9. jude Avatar

    devotion here too. the cloth seems held by it but at the same time breaks into a million pieces, each a new life.

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  10. ali Avatar

    the cloth as practice…so wonderful to witness its becoming through your hands and heart

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  11. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…………..each edge…be it stitch to stitch or
    cloth to cloth, all individual, yet form some kind of
    evolving Whole….it’s really Moving………….

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  12. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    i am so grateful to have company with this.
    i thought this morning…if i didn’t have You All, how
    different it would feel….

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  13. Nancy Avatar

    This is such a fluid, soul-filled expanse…a landscape of life…Your life. And in a sense, our life too as you allow us to bear witness to the ever-evolving, birthing and re-birthing of this cloth.
    Yes, we are so lucky to journey together. Thank you 🙂

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  14. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    How beautiful are those ripples across the cloth and that deep peace from stitching and stitching. It’s the closest to meditation and true calm and serenity. Thank you so muchGrace for sharing with us all. Hugs.

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  15. Ayn Hanna Avatar

    this cloth is very rich with quiet honesty, color, texture, use of materials, thank you for sharing yourself through your work.

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  16. Sandy Avatar

    i will share on my blog….. cant stay away….. more to come really soon. xoxo

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    good. i’ll watch…………

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is the next day…a different day again………..

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Robyn…it just somehow fits with all the rest. strange, but true

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    Ayn…thank you. all the base of it is from dyeing with
    plants here. i am aching to begin that again for the
    summer, but not quite yet it seems……….
    thank YOU for coming here……..

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  21. Jacky Avatar
    Jacky

    ‘there is a devotion to the work now’ …. I love that Grace. I love that pull of the cloth, it keeps wanting you to come back and stitch, to just look sometimes. Arent we lucky to have this relationship with cloth!
    Loving the topography. You see the cloth with new eyes.
    Enjoying your kantha-ing and your goat escapades…loved the above post. I was smiling from start to finish.
    Jacky xox

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  22. nadia Avatar

    Hi, Grace. Haven’t been by for awhile, but I see it’s business as usual or maybe unusual…lots of stitching and beautiful stitching at that. Beautiful cloth you’re working on.
    best, nadia

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  23. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    the devotion is getting stronger. i go back and forth…
    to all of that to the Cloth. it’s becoming easy to do.
    it’s really Something……..
    thanks..Jacky…xox to you

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  24. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Nadia…THANK YOU FOR COMING….and happy birthday to
    your blog! did i ever say that many of my dreams “take
    place” in Tunisia? and Morocco?….well, it’s just that
    i KNOW this…i am in tunisia, i think in the dreams…..

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