i took the one messy window Out Side
and yes, as i had thought might happen, Tay had thoroughly investigated the ashes. And as if this weren't enough, as i worked on the window, i looked up to see her ROLLING in them with zeal. So shoveled up into wheelbarrow.
Out there with a razor blade, i scraped clean two of the panes both sides and a third one side. My back aches. It's tedious. No wonder Paul Who Can Do Anything …didn't finish. It's a bummer. He slopped the primer on without taping and it's like cement. So when i finish the scraping, i'll sand again, fill the dents with filler and sand and TAPE before the primer. The second window i can do from scratch, so easier. It's amazing what one will do for $200, isn't it. But it will help here. AND i can do it at Home. So, good.
While just Out There, scraping away and not moving around, i was able to learn more about how They all spend a kind of cloudy but not cold December day. I listened to Sunny Ray as he trilled away with practice of his love sounds…practice on his father Gideon who is now silent and patient. Gideon just stands or lays there and goes elsewhere in his mind. Doesn't seem to pay any attention to Sunny Ray's efforts. Maybe he's just remembering his younger days. Dear Him. Nogal and Tenzen spent a lot of time rubbing their heads on things. Nogal has those considerable Scur Horns and his rub of choice is the T post that has the bell so there is a lot of nice ringing going on. Tenzen likes the strand of heavy wire along the back most "wall" and it makes a very odd sound that i can't think how to say here. The Doe Goats move back and forth along the corridor for no reason i can discern except they seem to like doing it. Suddenly one will just begin going and everyone gets up and goes too. Soon, Repeat. They are NOT as yet making any moves to rearrage herd position as i'd thought they would with the absence of Magic and Barbara. So far, just going. Tay spends her time digging and chewing things up. I'd not realized how serious she is about the chewing up part. She patrols the Whole Space and now and again siezes a stick, a piece of 2×4, a dry root, a weed, and chews it into smitherenes. This is serious work for her. She is very focused.
the second and third grass leaves stitched down, two seed stems. The thread i usually use for the seeds themselves won't work. Not sure what to do.
And over at Spirit Cloth, Jude talked about "expressing a core idea". About how she's thinking the "whole idea of making art has a lot to do with dialoge". Hmmmm.
Last week i contacted Judy of Tapestry Gallery in Madrid, NM that i've talked about off and on, that had the fiber figures i used to make, …..i contacted her and asked her to look at windthread and let me know if she would be interested in trying them out, these Cloths. She said YES!, Send. So thinking about this and thinking of what if i sent this particular one. Would it make any
sense?
would it make any sense…without the dialoge here on the blog. The odd change in perspective, those oh so small ink figures at the bottom…the Grass People that create refuge for them, and then this Face of kind of Gaia but more????? What / How would this cloth appear on it's own, out of context? And will i want to send words with it?, like i used to with the fiber figures? Do i want to send words? Jude says "expressing a core idea". She means something entirely different with these words than i take them as in relation to what i make, but still, it's a core idea.
So, i'm thinking about all this. as i just go.
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