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  1. handstories Avatar

    i love that clump of grass, and that you have a clear plan for Part III, that it is simple and full, and enough & that you allow room for and expect “you never know” to show up now and then. which i know is always true, so why is it such a constant surprise for some of us? this is a grand novel you are writing.

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  2. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    hi Grace! You’ve modified that flag…..
    You are still in a deep process….
    e.

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  3. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    Ha! comment space! Love sharing in the looking. Beautiful beginnings here.

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  4. Michelle Avatar

    I’m looking too, thinking of you with images of your place in mind, your hand visible in everything.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    well, i think you just give into it. and funny, the phone
    rang after posting this and the Old Cowboy who i take care
    of thought he might need to go to the ER. he couldn’t
    breathe and when he layed down it felt “like laying on
    tin cans”. and i thought…woops…forgot to knock on
    wood. oh eeeee.
    the novel thing is just a momentary “device”. so…
    i don’t keep it up. just use it to see what it is that
    i really WANT to see happening. it’s all too messy
    for a real novel.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    e…the flag…i realized that Wind was blowing her hair
    (which isn’t there yet) in an opposite direction as the
    flag. this became an issue. so i changed the direction
    of the flag. and in the drawing, it was just a pencil
    drawing. the flag itself…i like this scrap. it might
    be it. or it might not. yes. still in process.
    xoxoxoxoxooxo

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    ELIZABETH! I ALWAYS LOVE IT WHEN YOU COME BY FROM
    BALLARAT!
    yes. just looking at colors. sticking bits and pieces
    there to sit with eachother on the wall. colors. with this new effort at small cloths, i am more FREE to play with colors…
    LOVE,

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    Michelle…happy belated birthday. i was so bummed to
    realize i missed THE day…..

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  9. patricia Avatar

    there’s a fresh feeling here. perhaps it’s your use of more color? somehow seems like an emerging. joyful. clear.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh that line from the flag is fantastic I love how it moves and takes the eye out past the edge!

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  11. Penny B Avatar

    Looking is not as easy as it sounds isn’t it, Grace! I think the trick is to remember to look with fresh eyes. And I can just feel the breeze bringing life to your flag!

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  12. Monica Avatar

    Hello, I’m hopping over from Jude’s blog..
    These are delightful. The folds and hills of the 2nd, the sole flyer…
    the purple base cloth of the first is a thrill for me.

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  13. jude Avatar

    i sense more speed in your work lately.

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  14. ali Avatar

    ooohh….I’ve missed all this. I first saw blue bonnet sue (no kidding–that’s what appeared, the bluish bonnet, red arm reaching, green dress, little red/orange shoes) then, on second look, I saw a face–an eye, long nose, in profile)… lots of catching up to do.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    looking at colors that are not in this world here…but
    in worlds i remember, worlds i know are where other
    people live

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    in my mind it is a loooooong stick………like a
    bamboo stick, curved

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    that “breeze” is coming Soon. February is the month of
    WIND. Wind that energizes and Wind that makes us crazy.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    Monica…Thank you for coming and please feel at
    home
    i am looking, feeling, Colors that are not here but
    that i know are other places

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…hmmmm.?????
    still feels s l o w to me
    speed.
    hmmmmm.
    maybe because it’s more about the cloth?, less my
    experience?
    i don’t know.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh!
    all THAT?????
    I was just pinning colors!…OH!
    Love to you…..

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  21. jude Avatar

    maybe the wind is blowing harder?

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    that’s next month, here. when Wind comes down from
    the mountains and lives here.
    i thought about it and think that it could be just
    because there is a single moment happening in the last
    two cloths, rather than so many moments.
    i am feeling good about these single moments..

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  23. ali Avatar

    I see pictures in everything–maybe from my/our ancestor’s hieroglyphic language?

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  24. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    there’s a little cabin with a red tin roof in the corner of the valley and I want to live there.

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  25. ali Avatar

    oh, yes, me too! and here I thought it was a doll’s shoes or a bird house…

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