this morning was moist and warm out There, Sun strong , like honey flowing. it's the time of year when these things need to determine the course of the day. i would have been wise to stay out early, work on the tree hole, dig and sink the cement block for the post in the Way Back, poke around in the raised bed composting, things like that. but after feeding the Goats i came in.
and spent over four hours STRAIGHT, non stop, fooling with this small small face. it's the original face, the kind of odd one, but it's The One and i did so many minute things. it's smaller than a dry pinto bean. too small, really, to work with…but if it were bigger, the cloth would have needed to be bigger too. i still don't know how to think ahead about these things when i begin. so i am trying to do that with this Cloth. Understand.
and during those four hours the weather became overcast and dreary, soft rain off and on. But i wanted to keep going so i invisible basted the crow and finished any stitching of the "Air". by then my eyes were tired of trying to see in the grey light so i had to give it up but kept thinking about faces and how they can tell so much of any story. remembered that i'd put some in the little altar basket…got them out…
remember, you can double click to enlarge
looking, thinking how all these are faces that "weren't right" when i was was working on a cloth, but what if i just looked at them, listen for the story they might be "right" for???? so i got interested in that.
decided to just make some faces…no story in mind. just faces…for no reason except to explore them. these two were drawn then "scratched" with a stiff paint brush, cut blunt and short, dipped in turpentine. the turpentine causing the ink to bleed some, in some places, disappear entirely.
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