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i used to grow gourds.  all sizes.  i drew on them, painted them with oils.   sometimes i'd get a good harvest of these very small ones,  which for me were the hardest to grow.   this is one of the only ones i have left.  it's missing the salt cedar twig that would go through it to allow it to hang…like  in a window.  i would put all manner of soft things inside.  sometimes paint the inside too.

i called them   Shelters For Wandering Spirits

 

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this morning i remembered this.  and wanted to see if i could create such a Shelter with cloth.

??  maybe.

 

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and the Sky,  at the end of this day, was the Largest Sky i have ever ever seen.  it was HUGE.  it was Everywhere,  it was more than i almost could look at.  

 

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and as i turned to go inside, i was Startled by this….  

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13 responses to “295”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    You do have some mighty good skies there!! And your gourds have become awesome things here, too, by my students.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    The birds you painted are so fine Grace! Oh and OH! for those skies, but my how majestic, how magnificent. Under such varied and powerful skies…….I’ve no finish for that line.

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    you know….i totally completely FORGOT that. how
    amazing and interesting. but i totally FORGOT that.
    O.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    Michelle…yes, the
    SKY
    it’s a
    word,
    SKY
    but it was just so EVERYWHERE, so HUGE, SO SO SO…and i have no finish for that line either

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  5. beth Avatar

    Wow, those two sky photos barely look like the same day… What a difference the light makes. Thank you for this. Socked in with very grey skies here all day. Big rain is coming. Maybe 4 inches on top of all the snow melt. Where will it all go?

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  6. patricia Avatar

    i’ve never seen gourds this tiny. precious is all i can say. and like Michelle, i’m totally captivated by the delicate birds, how their essence is captured with such small strokes. i’ve decided that next year i’m going to grow more winter squash. and maybe gourds. gourds. saying the word out loud–gourds–i feel how it resonates so deeply in my throat and heart. gourds. like a chant.

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    grace

    hello jude

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    gourds are such strong spirit beings, each one has a distinct personality that wants to come out and can be quite demanding! Cloth is more quietly spoken but it’s a similar listening for spirit and direction in the process.
    Love the light

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    Those last two photos, they shimmer…

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  11. saskia Avatar

    oh my!
    you paint as well

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  12. Valerianna Avatar

    I wonder if I have any photos to share with you of what they became… once things have calmed down here again (Pasha in ER last night for enema 😦 and Dad comes for a week tomorrow… I’ll look for some.

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  13. jan millington Avatar
    jan millington

    Looking at your Big Sky photos; listening to Kate Bush song ‘Big Sky’. Serendipity; ‘we’re looking at the big sky’

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