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Went to feed Alz B lunch and stopped by the Old Cowboy's to return some of the tools from the other day.  How many duplicate tools does one getting old woman really need?  So i picked out the ones i wanted,  for whatever reason,  sometimes aesthetics,  and returned the rest to meet their Fate but then brought home these chains.  WHY, i wonder, do i so much love iron and steel?  i don't know.  WHAT might i DO with these chains.  I don't know.   But,  here we are.

 

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it began orderly enough.  but somehow began to unravel,  loosen.   the threads of all the wovens.

and things came,  placing themselves.    a stray thread from something else entirely, a small moon.  a leaf.

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  1. deb Avatar
    deb

    those chains speak of permanence and power.
    Potential lifesavers.

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  2. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    You have already done something with your chains…you’ve made a beautiful photograph. Three piles of rusty chain on a bench with your shadow melding with the bench and the grass. Lovely lights and darks.

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  3. ² Avatar
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    chains of live
    of connecting things ….
    life ….friendship
    chains in rest…. waiting for….
    your shadow so big so long
    only shadow

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  4. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    i’ve got that iron/metal thing happening too–feels like it’s in my dna. the smell of rust, of iron–love it.
    and your weaving is evolving in such an organic way–adding what comes–and goes. on this end, it’s helping something break loose–a log jam of sorts. thanks.

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  5. beth Avatar
    beth

    Log chains. You can move the (almost) immovable with log chains and a tractor or a truck.
    Weaving as net…

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  6. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    took me a while to sort my thoughts/feelings on last couple of posts, other than immediate reactions like ‘oh, how I love this post/how beautiful the tools/how truly authentic your cloth pieces/how insightful your ponderings on self…..’
    I also have (besides the immediate response and sense of wanting to converse with you, which in my head I do: I have actual conversations with you (and others as well, the talking continues…crowded? nope just the way it is for me))…thoughts and feelings i can’t put into words and then end up not commenting but as mentioned do have conversations with you, in that round-about-way they go……do you know what I mean?!
    anyway, leaving a comment here, duh, just to let you know I visit and read and look and am conversing…..and wish what I put into words could convey what I want to say
    love x

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  7. Martine Avatar
    Martine

    Thats how it should be…… things come, placing themselves. a stray thread from something else entirely, a small moon. a leaf.
    I dont know why Grace its such a drama sometimes to make a piece and sometimes it makes itselve….

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. i think there is not much they Couldn’t do

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    i really love looking at them. love Them. what beautiful things they are, link unto link.
    there is a place i pass down the road that has a pile of
    chain by their fence that is HUGE. the largest i have
    ever seen. i need to take a pic of it. i will. maybe
    sometime i could ask someone what they would be FOR…

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s a Long shadow, isn’t it. i am not at all long…
    i love having this long shadow

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    log jam…Beth refers to this below

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    with a truck. maybe even with my old Toyota truck, Sunny..

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    i like it that you converse with me in your head. this
    feels good. and probably the bird king and his consortium hear your thoughts and so…maybe they know me too…by
    your conversations in your head
    love back, always…

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…such a drama may be because it’s a Relationship…
    the making and the wanting to be made? so there is
    tension
    push and pull
    like lovers?….?

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  15. Judith of N. CA Avatar
    Judith of N. CA

    Saskia, thank you for sharing how you sometimes react to the posts here. I, too, often want to say something and then just cannot put it together where it expresses exactly what I want to comment. Sometimes it is a good thing for it allows me to give deeper thought and time to go inward with it..other times it becomes overwhelming and I am just circling around myself. BUT..it is such good stuff that comes from this place with Grace and others, isn’t it ?

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  16. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    absolutely Judith, this blog is one of my favourites!!!! for so many reasons, Grace’s generosity of spirit to name one

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