because of circumstance, i needed to spend some HOURS being really really quiet.  so i read a little but then found self just staring at the window where the Magic Diaries Cloth hangs.  and because i couldn't do anything else, really, i looked way longer than i ordinarily would have and being the perfect time of day, Sun began illuminating that whole World of cloth.  it caused me to remember how i'd seen it as seperate "rooms" and to remember that i had thought about making seperate cloths of each of these rooms someday.  this, on the right panel….yes.  i'll begin here. 

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 but my eyes drifted to the small pile of over dye scraps from the other day and i picked them up, just holding them then laying them on the foot of the "company bed".  arranging and rearranging and then began thinking….What if these were literally all i had to work with?  

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the "pinkindigo" was in an odd shape and i didn't want to make the noise of finding scissors, so just folded it over and here we have it.  to see it better i pinned it to the wall on top of that strange imprinted image on walnut cloth thats been hanging there.  Most of the walnut image is hidden by the overdye cloth….

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so here it is.   early this afternoon i drive Julian into Albuquerque for his trip back home.  and when i get back home, i will begin stitching.

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. jude Avatar

    that new one is very female. i will sit and stare out your window for a while as well.

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  2. Athena Avatar

    Owl ears, medicine bag…secrets kept close to the heart. Will you leave the two vertical strips hanging free?

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    you would love it…outside this window…Sun is on the
    rise again this morning as it is here in N Mex.
    and it’s interesting, that you see Female. i like that.
    have been thinking these past weeks that it is the
    Feminine
    as in Jungian terms
    that can hold the Earth best in these times. so
    this is good.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Your mornings…..mornings…….that quiet just beginning place…….a treasure.

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  5. Tricia Avatar

    intriguing… I will watch the development of this with interest… love the ‘pinkindigo’….

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  6. Valerianna Avatar

    I like the pinkindigo…. and the layers, but I am in awe of that strange walnut image and selfishly hope it doesn’t disappear under layers… I would be sad.
    I’m glad you will have time to stitch again.

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  7. jude Avatar

    and the rain is moving in once again as it now does here on Long Island.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, Hey, Athena~
    you have good eyes…those tufts on the top edge, owl
    ears. this south central Rio Grande Valley is a
    migratory corridor and in the last week, Owl has in fact
    stopped by.
    and medicine bag…a big bag, if that. the walnut cloth is about 2’x 2 1/2′. the Forgotten scraps about 15×15.
    but some stuff takes Big medicine, yes?
    i am trying hard not to get ahead of the cloth…to let
    it do what it will, but am thinking that that folded over
    flap will remain a flap…loose. and the Forgotten piece
    will be stitched only across the top of the Walnut Thing
    under it. to be lifted up if one were so inclined……
    and the two verticals, yes. hanging free. yup.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, oh, oh, my B E L O V E D mornings

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i will watch with interest with you. i should take
    another pic this morning…the color is more evident

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    it won’t. it will remain hidden, but known.
    One of the Parts of me feels so selfish, how i need Time.
    need long spaces of Silence. so these thoughts and
    feelings will be stitched in to this cloth as it goes.
    i woke thinking about Jude’s post in Spirit Diaries the
    other day about how things are sometimes deferred for
    a long long time, and sometimes that turns into a LifeTime.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i very honestly could not bear that.

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  13. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    Flaps – steps of muted rosy indigo leading into the solitary time as the cloth whispers of the landscape. Closeups of the pinkindigo reveal layers, segments, chapters…a lifetime.

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  14. Hoola Tallulah Avatar

    Ah the pinkish indigo is beautiful, there is something very delicate and feminine about it’s pretty folds. I wish I could say something more profound, but I am not that way inclined, my world is quite simple, and this, your beautiful cloth and pinkindigo, is just simply wonderous.

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  15. sandra Avatar

    I can see a face, love the purple indigo colours.

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  16. saskia Avatar

    the sun shining through the cloth, that looks nice and warm and allows me to see it differently; and the new piece, how exciting is that one, with the eye/comet hidden…..I love those baskets with bits of fabric in them

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  17. Valerianna Avatar

    Oh, I’m glad for you that the delay in your Time and Space/Silence did NOT take a lifetime to reclaim. I know about that part of myself, too. I don’t think of it at all as selfish, its just a matter of fact, its like breathing for me, how some people need to …. hmm… haven’t got a clue how to finish the sentence, so I’ll leave it there!

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  18. Mo Crow Avatar

    I’m with you Valerianna on the need for silence that’s why I wake up at 2am every morning to enjoy the stillness in the middle of the big noisy rushingness of a city of 4 million souls….and selfishly I too want to see the eye of the walnut cloth celebrated but knowing it is there like a favourite page in a book is good too!

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  20. handstories Avatar

    i want to slide my hand into those layers.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    a long muddled trip.
    i want to crawl into them. the whole of me.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    pupate.
    i want to pupate.

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  23. handstories Avatar

    oh, i’m sorry. rest & recover & stitch in silence for a bit. & i think you’ll be a smidge cheered if you come over & peek at my place…

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    smidge????, ahhhhhhh. no.
    Ready, now. oh yes. ok. Going. yes.
    and take her to the OCEAN…………..say my name.

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  25. handstories Avatar

    i’ll shout it!

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  26. Nancy Avatar

    Oh, hello MD cloth…so nice to see you again 🙂
    The new one is beautiful, calm and invites pondering.

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  27. nadia Avatar

    Your over dyed fabrics came together so perfectly. Very lovely. Love your Magic Diaries Cloth with the light coming through. Makes the eyes come alive. You have me reflecting on the cultural differences surrounding the body. In Muslim culture, the eyes are considered windows of the soul and therefore of a private nature. To look into someone’s eyes is considered extremely intimate. In general, people do not really look at each other directly in the eyes. I have gotten use to this and therefore your eyes also discomfit me a bit! I really like all the stitching you’ve put into that piece.

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the child that brings the feeling of selfishness.

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  29. grace Forrest Avatar

    2 [hidden] places?
    but hidden is not really quite it…am loooooking

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar

    simplicity is where it’s at
    profound is just profundity

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  31. grace Forrest Avatar

    the whole of it to me is the Face of something

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  32. grace Forrest Avatar

    the baskets…yes. special to me because they are copper

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  33. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Magic Diaries cloth…am seeing it anew

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  34. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think in many cultures..here, Navajo and Apache
    the overdyes are just such wonder surprise….not
    having any idea. just stuffing cloth into the pot.
    am so grateful to have had that uncomfortable space of
    time that i was pushed to just consider them. i am
    going to Remember that.
    and another thought…how i often, maybe most often
    don’t look into peoples faces/eyes, unless i want to
    know them

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  35. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    No not hidden places; more like stepping stones that take you deeper into that which you know is there, whether THAT is the physical landscape or one’s inner landscape. Cloth reveals in ways that we probably don’t even realize…

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  36. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am so full, so saturated with feelings this
    morning…and yes. “cloth reveals”
    i love you…..

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  37. Hoola Tallulah Avatar

    I have to look that up, profundity, told you I was simple :p

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  38. t Avatar
    t

    your windows look amazing. and this new cloth is so beautiful. love it.
    xt

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  39. Valerianna Avatar

    I got that… definitely. I never did the kid thing… cause I need to much time for me.

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  40. grace Forrest Avatar

    you were wise. and i see it as such a Valid choice, one
    that i did not take. did not know well enough at the time
    to take. now…3 generations in, down in, in to that
    Well of love. i watched the videos that Michelle posted.
    is it half of me?, more than half? of me that wants that?
    that recognizes it? but the choice was made and now i
    don’t know if it can be changed….am thinking of this.

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  41. grace Forrest Avatar

    t…from you, i receive these words as a very High
    reassurance to continue. i thank you, very much, for them.

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  42. Nancy Avatar

    It is hard to look into others eyes. A highly sensory/sensitive thing. There are so many reasons to respect the ways of others.
    Teachers here are taught things that contradict:
    get down on eye level, look into child’s eyes, don’t request that of cultures that don’t practice eye contact (but neglecting other reasons)…and can often be heard telling a child “look at me” or “look at my eyes” when the child is really being asked to listen or pay attention. This bothers me.

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  43. Martine Avatar

    so much to see………..i enjoy it very much…….must run….come back later!
    XXXm

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  44. Dee Avatar

    the back lit panel is so, so divine! and so is silence. what is selfish about needing it?

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  45. Morna Crites-Moore Avatar

    So very lovely and comforting. I wanted to sign up for the Magic Diaries but I totally missed it until I saw the notice that registration was closed. Duh. xo

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  46. grace Avatar

    i hope you can sometime.., one of the Diaries. it would
    be quite something to work with you for 6 months.
    ThanK You so much for your encouragement re what i’m
    doing…it is good to me….thank you……..

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