Img100

Img101

Posted in

33 responses to “what iffffff”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    what, no plucking? Just kidding, I’m sitting in class, very refined today, they are making neat mandalas, Mozart is playing, and your post pops up. I love where this took me. And, the note about not looking at your eyebrows in years. I often got flack from the females in my family that I have bushy eyebrows. So what? ( I guess I’m suppose to pluck, but Frida didn’t and she had a uni-brow!)

    Like

  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes, and she saw her unibrow as a
    crow

    Like

  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    i just forgot about them till i was drawing this.
    and i just now looked and they are kind of
    disappearing. how interesting.

    Like

  4. jude Avatar

    everything we see is in the eye.

    Like

  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    the eye of the beholder

    Like

  6. jude Avatar

    Be  Holder.

    Like

  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    My eye sees what I see, and my brows faded away to barely there decades ago. But I’d rather be in Valariana’s class than just about anywhere today. What if I see myself there? Could my eye reflect that?

    Like

  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. eye also as mirror., yes?

    Like

  9. patricia Avatar

    and eye as heart. btw, my brows have gotten thicker and are turning white. a bit white that is. and there was a time in my teens when i plucked them, but now–ah, i don’t think so.

    Like

  10. handstories Avatar

    i really love your eye visions. i love my eyebrows, especially that one of them lifts up w/certain expressions- the O’Neill (grandma Rosee) eyebrow.

    Like

  11. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Your hand is carrying your eye in its palm. The landscape is running right through your lifeline.
    As it does.
    I once had my eyebrows waxed and Himself wouldn’t look at me because he said I looked scary.

    Like

  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i used an eyelash curler

    Like

  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    my analyst’s eyebrow did that. he said very little.
    just listened to me. and when that eyebrow went up
    i knew i was
    REPEATING
    he must have been related to Rosee.

    Like

  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i always kinda liked it when someone said i looked
    scary

    Like

  15. ali Avatar

    ha ha–mine have white spikey hairs amongst the brown, and thinning, oh yes. I like how you write the landscape is in the eye, with emphasis on in–as if the eye sees and reflects all that has been, all that is

    Like

  16. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Nw coast Indians place an eye in the hand to signify a power point.
    Your vision of the land comes true through your handwork.

    Like

  17. nemo-ignorat Avatar

    I plucked mine when I was younger, they were grown together in a perfect arch: sign of the wolf. though I always loved the imagery I still would pluck them. but they stay the way they are now. no need to do anything about them. but I can lift my left eyebrow like Spock ;o) (mirror image, he lifted his right, I was too small to realize that) he was kind of a role model for me when I was a little child. not many strong women back then, so I looked to … the cool science officer who can knock out people with a pinch in the neck g my dad could wiggle his ears, so I practised that too.
    do you do that too? when I see an expression or a gesture I don’t really understand, I mimick it to see how it feels like, trying to understand better why people do it?
    you’re drawing evokes in me images of a strange planet. standing in a cave looking out into a strange new landscape. I like that.

    Like

  18. Suzanna Avatar

    My eyelashes are almost all gone and also the outside part of my eyebrows but the inside part has sprouted some really long white hairs! I wonder how long they will get perhaps I could braid them someday. Sometimes I become aware inside my eyes (instead of in my brain) of what I’m seeing…and it is as though the whole world is in there, performing…

    Like

  19. saskia Avatar

    oh the eye is so important; husband D’s eye-operation was a big deal and I realise I haven’t posted about his recovery, the vision in his left eye went from 5% to 60% in 6 weeks and it’s still improving! Relief and Gratitude.
    btw I’m a ‘plucker’

    Like

  20. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Nance, I loved reading this about NW coast Indians and your words re grace’s handwork: your words hold such truth for grace speaks deep meaning of her land through the threads of her cloth and because she does, we see the power of landscape, awareness and love in her life and in her work.

    Like

  21. Valerianna Avatar

    Oh yes… thanks for reminding me about Frida’s unibrow as crow!
    I came back and now there is a hand on your eye…. intriguing, and disappearing eyebrows.

    Like

  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    becaue Jude said Be Holder

    Like

  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    or, it really is IN the eye. if you blink, it’s not there and then it is. if you close your eyes, it’s gone.

    Like

  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    a power point. energy point. a vision coming true.
    a vision coming true.
    love,

    Like

  25. suzanna Avatar

    Very glad to hear of that recovery!

    Like

  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    the First People here feel it is rude to point. with a
    finger. even in a direction. so they indicate pointing
    with their chin and lips. it’s really interesting. and
    i practiced for a long time before i ever did it in public, not wanting to embarass myself. and when i
    do that now, as in when it comes up as want to point with my finger, but don’t, people are surprised and happy
    with my chin pointing. they laugh. and i feel good.

    Like

  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    what an amazing image that is…you with braided eyebrows..oH!….i love this. you have such a SWEET face and then braided white eyebrows??????????? oh, EEEEEEE
    performing.

    Like

  28. grace Forrest Avatar

    was politely waiting for word of his recovery. and
    of course you pluck. your beautiful hair would necessitate
    plucking. your face/hair is Art.

    Like

  29. Mo Crow Avatar

    by Gosh you can Draw Grace, love this one!!

    Like

  30. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh and what was the Grateful Dead tune yesterday? Box of Rain came to mind

    Like

  31. Dee Avatar

    I came back to go to Janet’s place again and got snagged here… oh don’t get me going on eyebrows and plucking… but lately, rather than try to pluck out the unruly white ones, I just take the hair scissors and cut ’em short. so obvious. so simple. I used to have Brooke Shields eyebrows, now they – what? look kindof ordinary… are there divinities with eyes in their palms?

    Like

  32. grace Forrest Avatar

    there are probably Many images of eye in palm. the Northwest Coast
    Native that nance mentioned and also the tin trinkets of Mexico,
    and i am sure there are many more. i think it’s a very OLD and
    Constant image. i like that it rose up in the moment because
    of Jude’s comment. Be Hold~er.

    Like

Leave a reply to Mo Crow Cancel reply