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327 just the smallest mark changes things

January 22, 2014

began thinking it might be easier if i gave her a world. but no….that would be adding things that were not of her original intent. her original intent was herself. ok.

face. the paper face has been many places already. it's full of pin holes. it won't last forever. so i'm trying to draw that face in the paper face again. no luck.

that first one on the bottom looks like Candice Bergen. then the blue one, ?????, then the next two are Male. i get really interested in all this. i am looking at the paper face. really looking. trying to re draw. and look at the results….???????? interesting. and what makes a face "male"?????

this is the closest. but also not. but something about it is just OK. what is this expression "saying"?

maybe i should just let it be for now. Just go and wait. ok.

invisible basting. everything but her arms, with the intention of cutting her free. but i'm moving too fast. need to slow down.

debris serves varied purposes. is good for a dog to roll in. nice for a winter itch i guess.

what was Given at the end of this day…..

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23 responses to “327 just the smallest mark changes things”

Minka

January 22, 2014

Funny…I thought all the faces were women. Ha!
I think the brow ridge might make a face male but I’m not certain.

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Dana Webb

January 22, 2014

I’m guessing that you won’t be able to replicate the paper face exactly because the details that make an expression are too subtle. Perhaps the new face will indicate her growth as this process continues. That dog is so corgi-like…my favorite dog breed.

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Dana Webb

January 22, 2014

I’m guessing that you won’t be able to replicate the paper face exactly because the details that make an expression are so subtle. Perhaps the new face will indicate the growth she is undergoing as this process continues. That dog is so corgi-like…my favorite dog breed.

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eva a(r)t work

January 23, 2014

Hi Grace,
I hope to be able to comment with the new address…Let’s see.
The idea of adding the faces is brilliant – I really envy you: you have such a tremendous sense of adding faces / face-expressions to your work. It adds …well, how do I put it in words…life, emotion…in a very simple but powerful way.

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eva a(r)t work

January 23, 2014

It worked!!! I am back in the game!!!

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Cynthia

January 23, 2014

i agree about the brow ridge..but it is such an interesting idea to play with..my husband has a very strong and totally masculine face…and it is the exact face which he shared with his mother..who was a tall and strong and handsome woman..and they could never see it..and i mean right down to the swirl of their hair…knowing those two faces so well i really think it was the strong brow ridge, the cheek bones read feminine on her and not at all on him..
and the chin..never seen under his beard ..so funny when he was in the hospital and unconscious for literal weeks ..and they were having so much trouble with tubes and tape and facial hair,,and i said well why don’t you shave it off…they were so happy and said it was so personal and so many people cannot bear to have to have any changes so huge in the appearance of their loved ones..a remark pretty funny in itself considering that at that point he bore so little resemblance to the person i love so very much…
when the beard was gone and his chin emerged..there was his mother’s face..chin of hers intact..and yet it was so male..and this was all bone structure..the shape of what lies beneath…
your faces are so full of life and the promise of secret stories..what a gift..that something so inanimate and two dimensional on this screen can brim with life..and that in those faces you have shared a whole group of different possibilities emerge…personalities distinct and individual..they speak..xox cynthia

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patricia

January 23, 2014

i’ve looked hard. enlarged her as much as i could. covered one eye then the other and notice that they each seem to hold or transmit two different messages. a sense of compassion for what she has seen–where she has been– and the other– an openness to what lies ahead. i know i asked you once how you were able to do this–and you said “anyone could.” well, so far, every attempt i’ve made has looked like a cartoon woman-in-the-moon.

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jude

January 23, 2014

make and female face, the perception of that, might be cultural.

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Mo Crow

January 23, 2014

forget the paper face draw on the cloth with all your heart

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Tracy Leppold

January 23, 2014

I like it so much. Are you going to leave the fabric in loops and folds? The face will work it’s self in. It’s the face that wants to be that person and as you work on it it will make more sense to you.
What a great sunset.

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dee

January 23, 2014

I wasn’t thinking gender at all — more: What are they looking at? Is there alarm there? (in the two top ones looking to the side). The blue one looks like a fairy tale moon to me… all of them seem so full of possibility!

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

it might. and the jaw.
but here, really, there is no jaw…and well for that
matter, brow ridge…it doesn’t appear that way, but
what might be seen as that is really a strand of hair

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

turned out to be a good face.
the dog is not too corgi ish but i’m glad you like her.
she’s just a road dog, by breed.

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

i like fooling around with the faces.
this was a perfect moment for that.
and YES! your new email seems to work!!!!!

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

that maniac husband i had…he had a beard and a moustache.
he was extremely handsome. now and then, he would shave
it all off and i would be so taken by the delicate bone
structure of his face, which was so incongruent with his
macho self…but the bones. his bones were elegant and
fine.
i like this face drawing…having it be the only thing
in a Cloth. it’s interesting to me.
maybe sometime i’ll try it the other way around. draw
the figure and the face will be cloth….

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

you need to keep doing it. it’s just marks on paper
(or cloth)

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

thats an interesting thought….i wonder…..

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

yes. the paper face is the paper face.
but i really love it, that paper face

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

all the fabric loops and folds, the thread tangles, yes.
they stayed. it was wonderful, stitching this only
enough to hold it. just wonderful.
the Sun set was such a gift

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grace Forrest

January 23, 2014

trying to get that feeling of the paper face…who is
looking to the Left
so…all of these were toward that effort….and
no…no alarm, but maybe surprise at most? i don’t know,
really. it’s them, doing the thinking here. i’m
just trying to uhhhh, trying to depict a felt/sense.
i guess that will have to do.

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Mo Crow

January 23, 2014

I love that drawing too! you can scan it, then print it out of your printer onto a cloth with Golden Digital Ground Matte medium backed with a sheet of paper or alternatively I can send you a sheet of the printable cotton that will go through a home printer if you want to try it OK? or do a photocopy if you don’t have a scanner, send it to me by snail mail and I can print it out for you here & then send it back to NM

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Nancy

January 23, 2014

What a beautiful comment this is.

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Nancy

January 23, 2014

Sometimes it is the nose that can look so male (or female). I like each one of your faces.

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