this is  how the morning began:

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i had no idea., just kept looking through the scraps.  avoiding thinking.  trying things, taking them away, putting them back, taking them away.  the moment a thought would form around what i was seeing, i'd change something.

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these are just a few.  there were MANY.  and Everytime i found myself trying,  TRYing, i quit.  i pinned it on the wall and walked away.  And this is what i ended up with at the end of the day:

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THIS is the first UNFORSEEN.  i never would have guessed.  i kept thinking as i went along that i needed to depict something somber, or even forboding.  dark.  but the total surprise is that although there are things that are uhhhhh, a little uncomfortable,  are not in keeping with my "choices",  they are all just  THINGS.

THINGS.  and seeing this i can't quite know what to think.  But i think that i may have already answered the Research Question.  it seems that i have the sense that Stuff is Stuff and really, that it's all somehow just ok.   This cloth is very similar to my dreams.  There are odd things going on in them all the time but nothing that is ever threatening, or dark, or somehow unexplainable in some way.  So, how great is this.  Stuff is Stuff.  hmmmmmm.

so tomorrow, yet another crazy outside day of W I N D and even some R A I N,  i'll begin stitching it together.  now there is only enough invisible baste to keep the pieces from falling off.  There will be a LOT of integrated applique.  i know that from the WonderBird on the Robe.  how much i loved it there.  so here too.  and then…there is that little foetal being thing.  How does it fit in?  this i don't know yet.  and there is a sense of some kind of indication of paths, of choices, detours, something.  But that will come as i go.

So…what began as one thing became something else entirely.  Who'dve guessed.

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23 responses to “a complete surprise on Day 8”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    I love surprises, as long as I didn’t have an expected other outcome!! I like feeling a kind of excitement from you.
    Did you get my email?

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  2. Chris Linton Avatar

    I love this, it’s just come together to be compelling to look at. There’s already a lot of movement in it, and we have to keep moving physically and mentally and even spiritually, because life doesn’t stand still and nor do we or our inner self.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    i did. and i am really frustrated not to be able to
    leave you a comment. i just tried again and it’s going
    to moderator, so maybe now? but it’s nothing like what
    i’ve wanted to say. wha.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s odd. again…like my dreams. but then…it’s as
    it should be, i’m thinking. What i THINK is one thing,
    what just lives inside of me is something else all together. ?????

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  5. nance Avatar

    Stuff is stuff. Yup! Whether its a kid in the city or a lost child in Sudan it all boils down to the human condition that stuff is stuff. We just love, no exceptions. Their own story will come forward… Same with cloth if you let it.

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  6. jude Avatar

    You seem to have slipped into Diary mode. As it will go.

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    I’m thinking about all this… 🙂

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  9. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Thanks Grace for visiting me over at my morphing days into days on http://msuncertainty.blogspot.com/ It’s been a little lonely over there. I’m loving your unforseens right from Day One to 8, and all the thoughts, no thoughts, experiments, goats, comings and goings, stitches and such, and all the comments too. Stuff IS just stuff, and living in the moment is real as it gets and good as it gets. I’m looking forward to 9+++++/ 😉

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  10. saskia Avatar

    oh this is SO great to witness: the process, the choices, decisions, the what-could-have-beens, all are right in their own way; the ‘outcome’ is just the beginning of this story cloth

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  11. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Came here early this morning, looked, a thought flittered but not words so I left. Made tea, scrambled eggs with onions, tomatoes, a bit of salsa, took dish to the sink, sun coming up, bathing the morning in golden hues, bit of that mauvey pink and it came to me that this unforeseen cloth is a telling of a day, an ordinary day, maybe or maybe not, a day in the life of grace made up of all of those moments that sometimes we pay attention to and at other times, they just float around us waiting…and life is like that.

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  12. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Cool on the surface, fiery below.

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  13. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    i am thinking that the many Unforseens, carried consciously or otherwise ARE what give substance to my
    (our?) life(s). actually, are It.

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  14. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    your thought causes me to realize that i think of
    “below” as the place From
    “above’ as the place going to…interesting.

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  15. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    as a cloth, i might have preferred some of the
    in between ones. but this is how this first one needs
    to go

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  16. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    and while you are doing your bible study, can
    you check out the story of
    the burning bush?
    who did god speak to in the form of the burning bush?
    Moses?
    and what was it god said?
    i don’t have a bible anymore

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  17. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    it’s a funny time of this year i think…

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  18. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    xoxo

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  19. grace.porvida@gmail.com Avatar
    grace.porvida@gmail.com

    yes, you are right. everyone has their one story
    yes.

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  20. Nancy Avatar

    I liked seeing the pieces moving around. Yet, somehow the last image felt like an arrival to me, like all had fallen into place. Also the color of the photo is different and that made an impact too. Stuff is stuff, but we (as people) sometimes attach so much to what could be so simple. This idea is on my mind because of the conversation I had at a training yesterday.
    BTW-i do like all the colors that came about and the way the pieces float, or don’t and touch…or don’t.
    Not so much talking lately…but I’m always here looking 🙂

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  21. patricia Avatar

    my first thought was how soothing. quickly morphing into something more like excitement as i followed the bread crumbs of the arrangements. i didn’t leave a comment this morning–was cranked and ready to get after some projects–and then the bottom seemed to fall out and the day is coming to an end but i find myself back here again. just looking. imagining the alchemy that’s about to take place.

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  22. saskia Avatar

    haha, we’re regrouping in two weeks’time, I’ll ask our vicar (btw a very modern woman, who in my opinion has an open-minded view of god ‘in general’ and what -s-he means to her personally, I think she’s accepted I’m a non-believer and is okay with that)

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  23. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh Grace this is beautiful the colours of your world the reflection of hope in the cottonwood the dreaming of the dark turning into just more THINGS… this speaks volumes to me as I dance on the edge this morning

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