kept thinking that this face is too pretty. But, faces ARE pretty., as are Butterflies. So..i thought, ok, it's ok. and maybe ALL faces are pretty…in that, well, you know, sense of the word….maybe All faces are if there is just the eyes, two nostrils, a line for a mouth?
well, my question is: too pretty for what?
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you ask good questions.
too pretty to
relate
to, i guess????
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Too pretty for words, or judgments, or denying, or discarding. Too pretty to argue with, and never too pretty to love, to be the love. Oh, Grace, I should be sleeping but old habits die not and I’m checking in to my favorite spots before going to bed.
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then I wondered…since we all have the 2 eyes, a nose a mouth….what makes a face not pretty? expression mainly I guess, tone of voice, energy….
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and i’m thinking about a conversation with boy-in-red-shirt–a conversation about observing as opposed to judging. and why we do both.
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too?
is too ..too…
missed you but here again now
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…and i cannot help it ..for all my grown up and real thoughts…some of which i have come through through study and /or experience. and/or belief… all .i can still hear… echoes of my mama’s sweet southern voice..not prim, not scolding..just gently reminding me that pretty is as pretty does…and that was truly the very first thought that drifted..or leaped into my mind…
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the face seems just a face but the pink is might purdy.
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or leapt
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leapt is already over
leaped, you can still see the trajectory, the arc of here to there.
so, i like leaped.
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The pink cloth reminds me of the hair bows girls wore in the thirties, a la Shirley Temple. The face looks open and wondering…maybe that is what makes it pretty. Perhaps I’m just on this track, but I am thinking of mothers, daughters and little girls that grew old. The cloth in the background is wonderful.
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questions arise
what is truth?
what is beauty?
what is pretty?
is it about appealing?
does prettyness distract or attract?
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does it have heart?
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this is just stream of consciousness at 4am your work always has heart Grace!
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I think she looks like you.
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joy-full
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well…THE DAY is at it’s end for you. Over and done.
I am looking so Forward to hearing all about it…..
BIG GIANT LOVE
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i think most faces are faces. and i love, like really LOVE
faces. all kinds. and it’s that there are so many kinds that actually thrills me. What i’m working with here is
a kind of stereotypic face i keep coming up with…
sometimes the features blur nicely or are a bit “off”
to begin with…those are the ones i’m after…
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oh…i wish i were in on that conversation. Boy in red
shirt is very lucky. Judging is very interesting…is
very LARGE. is a preconception? OR, just Preference?
did you come to any Conclusion????, Why we do both????
again, Boy is very lucky
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i love you yvette
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this was to Cynthia
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i can’t get it to come through right, the pink…it’s
kinda orangy. Good then, that the face seems just a face.
This is what i’d be glad about
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cloth in background is Deb Lacativa’s damask. and yes.
it IS wonderful. She is a magician.
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I love these questions…4am or whenever…
to me, pretty~ness sometimes does not allow other things
to appear…nuance. not really wanting “appealing”…???
but, but What…?…..maybe allowing anything to be
seen…through many filters. Pretty maybe closes possibilities?????
LOVE these questions!
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that’s a nice thought, but no…i don’t look like this.
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love~full, i’m hoping for
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prettiness … perhaps it’s frivolous, like the amazing long wild tails & extravagant dances of the New Guinean Birds of Paradise, or the way the male Australian Bower Bird collects blue things to adorn his bower or the wonder of a peacock’s tail fully fanned out and shimmering, the delicate perfection of a tiny sunbird’s nest, or closer to home and spring in New Mexico- the perfection of an iris flower… perhaps these extravagances are “just” to attract a mate in a world that is teeming with the wild beauty but they are all part of the magic wonderment of our beautiful planet.
Prettiness in nature is all part of the grand scheme of Gaia as is majesty and the truly ugly, the so ugly they are beautiful things like the British Bulldog, a warthog or a piranha… beauty is in the eye of the beholder…
& how focusing on prettiness in art can diminish the work to “just” craft (now here I am treading on dangerous ground but I will say it anyway)
painting flowers on porcelain
embroidering flowers on doilies
painting flowers on saws, clothes hooks and boxes
when it’s well done it can become art… when not done well it is kitsch.. and that’s a whole other aesthetic which we have talked about before.
NB I used to worry about ending up painting flowers on porcelain in my dotage
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maybe that’s closer to IT…..all that you mention at
first…that’s Beauty to me. you know i use that word
all the time…beauty and beauty FULL….it’s maybe my
most used word, because it’s what i constantly SEE.
today on the google news was a pic of a Goblin Shark that
was caught in a net. it’s pic, well, i thought “how
incredibly BeautyFull, this creature”…and was so glad
to read a little further that the fisherman photographed
it and then RELEASED it back into the Sea. that also
was Beauty Full, that he RELEASED it, alive. the scientists looking at the pics determined it was female.
so…maybe for Mother’s Day….this Goblin Shark, very very rarely seen and then released.
the word Pretty, that’s a whole different thing to me.
and i’m wondering now, when would i use that word? i don’t use it much. but i did here. interesting.
maybe pretty somehow leans toward stereotypic? maybe
more uhhhh, well…hmmmm. i don’t really know. but it’s
interesting. and since i am seemingly following this urge
to make these little love letters with faces, maybe i’ll
find out more about it as i go.
it’s 12 noon here. Do you Ever Sleep???????
big love…
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am still thinking about how pretty in the context of cloth and craft so often trivialises the concept… words like saccharine and twee come to mind
Oh I do sleep in little cat naps a few hours here and there when I just fall over!
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seen altogether as is, there isn’t so much Pink. and
after all the handling for stitching, the face took on
a different energy that i like. just, open, as you say…
Receiving, maybe. the cloth that is the ground cloth is
Deb Lacativa’s damask. and yes. it IS wonderful.
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