so…forward with Optimism???

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ok.  so far so good.  here.  i want to carry the colors of the edges Through….and am thinking how i can do that.    the "story" that has presented is that this part to the left is "where the Imperative is kept".   Where the spirit "lives" that through time,  infuses the Urge for repetative or ritual  actions that manifest in things like Migration.   So, these images on this left side and the spaces in them would be Places Where Spirit Lives.   and then,  colors and form can represent a kind of "language".  

am thinking a LOT about the upcoming Festival of the Cranes.  and how that repetative ritual action of the birds brings the same in the response of humans who love them.  we go.  year after year to bear witness to their return.

 

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and i am working outside in these last days of Warmth.  Under the morning glory vines i found yet an other thing i'd been looking for.   this piece of wood was found in an arroyo when i was living in Snowflake Arizona.   it's one of the things i have brought along with me for going on 25 years.  was good to find it.

 

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one of the native grasses…a kind of Lovegrass.  There are 19 Lovegrasses.  i'm not sure yet which this is.  but i love it.

 

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this is from Sunday.   at first, i thought it was a "failure".  but the longer it hangs out there, the longer i see it hanging out there,  i am no longer sure.  it is what it is.  and maybe that's Enough.

 

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and a decision.   the central pieces of cloth here is Marti's collaboration with her Dye Pot.  if you remember, it was long.  twice as long actually.  and there was a lot of indecision about cutting her cloth.   But i Want it here.  and so, i did.   it is a much different fabric than the silk noile…it's some kind of more coursely woven cotton.   but i have begun to kantha stitch it on and as i do, it is amazing how it becomes One with the silk.  it's a horizontal kantha stitch which means the "rivulets" are vertical.   When that's done,  i'll post a photograph.  it's wonder Full and Fine and again, speaks to me of that thing of Ritual/Repetition/language of Spirit/the unknowable.

so…that's it.  now let's see if all this goes through.

 

 

 

 

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16 responses to “243”

  1. handstories Avatar

    I wonder if my subconscious sends me here on days, such as this one, to find so much. the beautiful dress becoming more, cloth in the wind, a laugh at the idea of a town called “snowflake” in arizona, and those wonderful cracks of cloth going across your new piece, and grass that is love. a reminder of such a full world. plenty enough. x

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    your comment brought me Sweet tears. yes.
    plenty enough.
    yes. a full world.

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  3. Jennie Avatar
    Jennie

    Another thing in common – I knew Snowflake and Showlow and McNary in ’69 and early 70’s. Loved it, wanted to live there.

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  4. Micael Kemp Avatar
    Micael Kemp

    About 10 years ago a friend and I stumbled upon 40 acres for sale in Snowflake. We stepped out of the car, looked at one another and knew instantly that the land was magical. We bought it, found a natural altar, and went there several times a year to have ceremonies and collect petrified wood. She can no longer travel, but that land remains close to our hearts. I’m not surprised you lived there.

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    what a post full of the spirit of place!
    namaste crow sister
    aaarrrrrk! aaaaarrrrkkkk!aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrk!

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  6. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    Love this new cloth and the thoughts behind it. Your jumper came out great! Are the instructions online?

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  7. beth Avatar

    So Spirit-filled. Thank you. I’ve been feeling a little depleted–with no real reason… Just autumn.

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  8. linda Avatar

    i didn’t realize there was a festival for the cranes two times a year.
    coming and going?
    oh i would love to see it..
    think of me when you are there so i can be there in spirit..
    love the dress. you are a dressmaker..

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  9. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Such a fine crook of wood. Better to have been found and given place in your little heaven on earth where everything eventually makes perfect sense dear Grace. As soon as I have the postage, I’m mailing you some stinky POWER full black oak mush FROM MASSACHUSETTS where I wish I was this evening.

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    i went there because of some people at the Artist Market
    in Eugene Oregon. a woman owned the land. 2 separate houses there. on many many acres of land down a maybe almost
    10 mile driveway. there was no working well. had to
    haul in water. i lived in my Airstream and climbed to the roof of one of the homes to sit in the morning and watch the coyotes run rabbits. i walked endless miles in arroyos. it’s one of the places that had absolutely ZERO electricity.
    it was SILENT. and for the first time i understood how much white noise electrical poles and their lines creates.
    I have never lived anywhere like that since.

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    maybe it was the same place….?…..!!!
    a lot of land there is 40 acre parcels.
    do you still own it?

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. aaarrrrk

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    instructions?…smile.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    depleted for no reason. i think that might be a good thing.

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh, eee…what did i say???? no…there is only one
    Festival here…when they return.
    and i will call out your name to them when i go. Soon, now.
    dress maker X ONE. it’s enough.

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    EEEEEEEEEE, STINKY POWER!!!!!!!!!!

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