the Observer sees that the woman who lives here has worn very certain paths in the Place.  These  marks of her footpalms are maps of a life that she has created for her Ease.  That Ease includes a kind of drift where she moves without thinking.   and the Observer sees that this has been disrupted by the dog.    The dog moves more like a bird…fast,  overland,  fast.   The woman continues to move according to her patterns and the dog weaves all around her…in out over through back and forth round and round.  

 

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at work today,  i deadheaded these from a plant by her garden.  Bundled them.  We'll see.  They are similar to Echinacia  sp  but are not.  

 

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had woven this little cloth as a way to feel like i could participate in Jude Hill's  Considering Weave at the mothership Spirit Cloth.   Truthfully,  i thought i would eventually just take it apart and use the pieces elsewhere.  But it's been on the wall.  and Especially because it is perfect on the plant dyed cloth that i couldn't imagine ever possibly Using,  because of it's Beauty,….but here…the little just trying weave fits so well…so i added some things.

 

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i particularly like this thin strip under the spirit eyes.   Makes a big difference.

 

 

 

 

 

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23 responses to “easier”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Nice nice nice–love the yellow, and the eyes–Yours and the spirit eye too, and the line of red. Love love the weaving dog…her worn paths and the dog weaving.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    Keep asking self….do i want her Enough? it will require me really wanting her. Can i let her weave herself in.

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  3. grace Avatar

    and Michelle…i DID find the info about the museums
    in the City…will send you. I am hoping beyond hope that
    you might be able to go there………

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  4. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar

    really enjoy the cloth weave. i smile each time i look at it. i can’t pinpoint what it is about it but it just gives me a good feeling.

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  5. ² Avatar
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    so it is
    it’s make a big difference
    you know it
    hug for you

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    a cloth of days

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  7. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    If you could see me right now, you would see a smile as wide as the Rio Grande BECAUSE you made a bundle, you deadheaded and thought about using the flowers to make a bundle, I am filled with happiness and joy to see this. The bundle holds me, the possibility of color and design makes me swoon because making bundles is a meditative process for me and each and every time, the sense of heightened anticipation upon the unfolding is such a gift, I cannot find words to come close to what it feels like…I would say that you just have to do it to know AND you did when I was there with you and YOU ARE DOING now…

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  8. jude Avatar

    what i like about the cloth is the logic of the weave, the tension of it against the logic of the dyed cloth, the flow of it. I think they became more of what they are. together. you need not weave to participate. an eeeee now and then will do.

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  9. debbie.weaver Avatar

    Love this piece, there are advantages to not being a weaver, it frees you to experiment more.

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  10. KAMFreeman Avatar

    Grace, I have always seen you as a weaver – weaving thoughts, ideas, inspirations, necessities into the everyday weft of who you are, how you are, what you are, on your journey. Weaving into this “cloth of your life” bits from time with Aliz B, with the old Cowboy, with the goats, with other living beings around you, with all that grows on the earth and that which you gather to make colour on cloth…the picture I hold of you is truly one of a weaver…a creator of all manner of things….to weave thread into cloth or cloth into cloth is just one small corner of this big world of weaving together disparate and like bits of all life…this cloth is lovely.

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  11. handstories Avatar

    I am not a yellow person, but that piece at the top changed everything about this piece to me- just warm and welcoming, with the balance of the red at the bottom. I feel taken in by this.

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  12. vicky aka stichr Avatar

    bits and bits they all seem to fits. silly rhyme, but meant seriously. they all fits.

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  13. patricia Avatar

    wonderful description of the observer’s observations. i like the idea of this practice–a lot. wondering if i could pull it off. and the cloth, the eyes and the little diamond shape that seems to be your –i was going to say “watermark”–then rethought it, but yes, that’s it. perfect companion for the cloth you and Marti dyed. love….

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  14. grace Avatar

    maybe because it’s a Just Going thing. That there is always, Always, a Just Going within any comotion? We are atuned to the comotion but really, it’s on the Surface. and more
    really, there is the Just Going, that always does and will Just Go. it seems that way to me. So though there is comotion, i can feel the stitch, see the scraps together in their harmonious way?

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  15. grace Avatar

    Maria…i do know it. i receive your hug

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  16. grace Avatar

    yes. no more, no less. a cloth of days.

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  17. grace Avatar

    it looks kind of Plain so far….

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  18. grace Avatar

    Jude…i know, an eee now and then, but well, there is
    the Urge because it’s what i know can make a difference.
    I am watching and when it’s right, then. But for now,
    i need to learn to be content watching, listening, learning.
    and you are so Right…the tension. Yes. and it feels
    so good to see the balance.

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  19. grace Avatar

    there are advantages. a certain kind of Freedom. yes.

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  20. grace Avatar

    well….there is Life Weaving
    and there is weaving of thread and string. Both Inform
    the other, this is true. But “real” weaving…making
    something substantial from strings…well….

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  21. grace Avatar

    i am not either. but this is Deb Lacativa. She is a
    total Wizard. Her colors vibrate, sing, dance, just how it is with her. I’m very glad you like this. Very.

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  22. grace Avatar

    Vicky!!!!!!!!!!!! hey….yup…they fits. LOVE TO YOU

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  23. grace Avatar

    it’s a good practice. it works when nothing else is. still am practicing. I do LOVE the weave atop the dye…it’s
    so balancing. love back to you

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