it can rest a little while now. a day or two. or a few. just As Is. Mo made a really thought Full comment yesterday, that to her the butterfly is a distraction and superfluous. i like both those words and what they mean here a LOT. distraction. superfluous. and i thought about that a lot. in a way, it is very true. but there is something in me that really likes that butterfly made of wind. and likes it There. so i went to wikipedia and looked at the word Kitsch.
" a lowbrow style of mass produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. The term Kitsch is generally reserved for unsubstantial or gaudy works or decoration, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal."
"according to Walter Benjamin, Kitsch is, unlike art, a utilitarian object lacking all critical distance between object and observer, it "offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, without sublimation."
and i liked very much all this as definition of kitsch. and it's true. that the moment i pressed that butterfly to this cloth, the term kitsch~y rose up.
BUT.
i also like it. i am going to look at it both ways for a while. and i am also looking in terms of the idea of Theater that Jude mentioned. i went back back and back in the picasa library to find a cloth that i made, sort of, at the very beginning of my time as Jude's student. it was directly about Theater and i went on with that word Theater for a while. making the curtain in the big west window the theater cloth. adding things to it, that created a sense of Theater. but then, as i was scrolling through Picasa, i realized how much of what i make is nothing more than that. In that, they are simply scenes. that seem to be set. like a moment in time, JUST before something happens. and what the something is, we don't know. it's just a cloth of that moment, Just before. and how much i LIKE that. so…having all this in my head, i was OutSide today and saw it all repeated Out There. it's all a scene. nothing happening in that moment that is obvious, but it is all Ready. all in place. So MANY things MIGHT happen. or not. and how much i love that moment.
Theater. how life is Theater, really.
i want to make a Sunflower Theater
maybe like this one on my Magic Diaries cloth?
early this morning i was looking at the Warm Weather Curtain on the door to the Way Back. thinking about making a cloth loom of it. do i want to? or do i love it just as it is?
close. to get the bloom right i had to tweek the rest
and eeeeeeee If you double click you can see the aphids. wondering if this portends a particular kind of growing season???? i have never noticed this before.
and right now, the single Robin, Robinda, is speaking. has not gone on yet. is remaining longer than usual.
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