this cloth is going for a visit when it's done. along with a few others. and because it's going where there aren't cloth people, i've become more Care~Full with some of the very loose weave. am finding self thread weaving with the invisible basting. This is causing yet another very deep layer of intimacy with the cloth. yet another very deep layer of Love.
hello there, nice to see the cloth so close; I enlarged the images and just enjoyed them for a while
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find myself wondering, where could this cloth be going? where are there NO cloth people?
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Haha Patricia…I read your comment with the same utter amazement that my sister used once when she said, “I can’t believe it when people have NO BOOKS in their house!”
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Grace- bottom pic, white long stitches, near the redish…speak of tying up a package to be mailed. But, maybe that is because I had just read your words. So much texture here. It’s best to think of the recipient at time like this. I sew ‘firm’ when it is for little hands 🙂
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the pieces that are like this just need to be like this.
i hope they manage to remain how they are. i will send
along some words and include this somehow, in explanation.
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Well, i suppose there ARE cloth people somewhere there.
But…and this post got cut short, i was going to explain,
not be cryptic, but there was commotion in the Goat World
and i got caught up outside.
I have a very long long standing relationship with the
woman who i began drawing with i guess almost 30 years
ago? She taught a very kind of Right Brain drawing and
i was hooked. we then went on in some different ways
working together, one of which was the bookstore that
we partowned, etc. Over the years we have gone on,
keeping in touch. Sometimes a lot, sometimes not. But always there. Now it’s long phone conversations. I’d
tried to explain my switch from the fiber figures to the
Cloth, but i think it’s hard to imagine without really
seeing and i didn’t try very hard. Sewing is something
i think she can’t really imagine me doing. like if i
said i had become a quilter.
Anyway…this latest time of Great Grief for the Planet
…she heard about in the phone exchanges and it was she
who called me with the On Being, Joanna Macy interview.
…………oh, this is getting too long……..
…………how can i make it 5 words or less……..
so…in SUCH GRATITUDE to her for sending that,
i am sending some of the cloths, incl. this one off to
her…Ann Arbor Michigan…to share with her ongoing class
she teaches in collage as creative and spiritual Process.
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nope. not little hands. these are very creative women.
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the traveling cloth, it will be cherished and held close, gently, I’m sure. this is a precious gift–of you
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this is very exciting all around, and perhaps, upon being with your cloths, they will become cloth people?
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This is a lovely story of the Best kind, these kinds of friendships are one of the top things I treasure the most. Awkward sentence, but you get my drift. Her class sounds interesting to me.
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I was thinking it was for women, I meant more that is what try to do, like with Julian’s cloth.
Now that I think about it, I think I sew sturdy all the time.
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collage kind of says it all.
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grace, i can relate deeply to so much of what you’ve said here and i thank– you for the short (smile) explanation–although truthfully i could have read on for days. my sense is that seeing and holding your cloth will have a profound effect upon your friend as well as her students.
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what a sweet gesture to give it in hands to touch…if it returns it will have layers of extra energy
giving is receiving
love you Grace but not so much on the www due to a little stroke
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i don’t think so. they are pretty committed to drawing
painting writing
but you never never know.
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she is to writing/creativity in general what Jude is
to Cloth/creativity in general.
i feel so incredibly lucky to have both of them in my
life. and also, to be where i am with the teachings of
both.
and to be where i am with Cloth. how cloth has deepened
everything. yup. Lucky.
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well…that remains to be seen. but, really, it’s my
way of being able to show her where i have gone. she
was the beginning of my “forming” and now, i have found
my home with Jude and with cloth making. i think she will
find it interesting to see where things can go.
and her students…some i know, most i don’t but i am
very interested in their responses.
it will be as if i am a guest student with the cloths.
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you know, i don’t know what those white stitches are
about. yet. or maybe never. i like them.
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yes. gently.
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collage has played so much a part in the entirety of my
experience. i should post another pic of the kitchen wall.
When little boy Julian was here, we made collages.
to me, my cloth work is collage. but of a very deep kind.
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yvette…a little stroke. a little stroke.
the brain creates something of its own accord.
I love you, yvette.
and they will all return. i’m not able to give them up
yet. maybe never will be. who knows.
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