so i have finished the Karma Hat cloth.  today i tacked the black beans to that Runner

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it's the First Time i have not had  "another" cloth waiting in my mind.  my mind is empty.  i think it feels odd.  but i'm not sure.   What if the Karma Hat were the last cloth i ever make?

i worked away again and came home to do things outside.  like scrub out Drinking Tubs.  rearrange the feed hay bales.  and my mind was still at the River.

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Escondida (Hidden in spanish) is about 5 miles away.  it occured to me that i could go Often, even every day, really,  and Witness Her after this time of Reprieve.  i could.  and there are other places along her shore where i could go.  Take Chinche who would be thrilled beyond her wildest dreams.

and suddenly, i remembered to go look

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from:

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Meinrad Craighead.  you may remember i have talked about her before.   i don't know what she is doing now.  She lives in Albuquerque along the banks of the Rio Grande.  she had fallen ill.  no longer teaches.

maybe i will read this book front to back.  truth is, i never read the text.  only looked at the pictures.  maybe it's time to read her words?

 

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of all the bean dye,  this is my favorite.  it's just the end of a long strip, most of which is underneath the blue strip.  i couldn't tear it off.  and i look at it with such PLEASURE and think that it is only fairly recently that i could imagine choosing this as my favorite.  Things have changed for me.

 

 

 

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14 responses to “201 a kind of limbo”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Changed, maybe but your favorite bean cloth, well it speaks to me of the Rio Grande and maybe something, clothwise will rise from your careful attention and devotion to the Rio. Last cloth – well no because as long as your blood flows, so too will come the cloth.

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    And as I looked at MC’s Sound of the Rio Grande, I closed my eyes and heard chanting and then your voice, singing softly; I can only imagine your voice for I have never heard you sing but it was your voice and you turned and you had that soul smile like the woman in your cloth with the headdress and if I had your ability, this is the cloth I would make and especially stitch the black bean reddish piece of cloth for it has the color of the water, and the many colorings of the earth on the banks and the song/story it tells is one of honoring the Rio and you, it’s guardian spirit…

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  3. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    I adore that linin runner. So opulent in her length. And that beautiful cut work. Have fun with her.

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  4. lindamorris Avatar
    lindamorris

    love the bean cloth ! little tale for you. i loved your recent post about meinrad, and the video link , which i sent along to my 95 yr old mother- in -law, catholic,smart,artist.british.thinking she would like it too….and she had such a negative reaction i thought i was going to be banished from the family. yikes. i still dont quite get it. but so it goes. kind of funny too and an example of how things can spread about , thought you might find it interesting.

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  5. jude Avatar

    i see a little sense of that new piece in some of your others. what if this is the last…..? i have been asking myself too, many of those kinds of questions. But I always do.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    these on the runner are just so i can hang outside and
    watch the fade/or not
    and also to look at the changes in the bean dyeing.
    it’s not a “cloth”…

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    well, doesn’t surprise me. Craghaid is not for
    everyone

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    not the last because of any desire, but because maybe
    i got somehow Empty ?
    i can’t imagine you ever being empty

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  9. jude Avatar

    imagine further

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    looked at in a different way it truly is a “cloth”, a work in progress and I really like how it is a changing river of colour.

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  11. Valerianna Avatar

    OH, Craighead… I just yesterday glanced at a book of hers at the bottom of one of my piles of books and thought, I should pull that out, and didn’t. Maybe I will now. Her work is so HERS.

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  12. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    “What if the Karma Hat were the last cloth i ever make?”
    I think you could no more stop making cloth than stop breathing.

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  13. mimmin Avatar
    mimmin

    just under the blue soft edge, the colour here is exactly a colour i painted a part of my old kitchen before we moved. it was called safflower and it made me happy to see it every day

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