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One of the Grass Persons.  One of Three of the fiber figures i kept.  The Grass Persons were the only ones that were repeated.   All the other figures were one of a kind.  the Archtypal Energies would repeat, but they were all individual.  The Grass Persons were a clan.  So similar, they were Same.  Because of their huge importance to me.  Their huge Constancy and…i think now, in light of Patricia's word,  their Steadfastness.   Without clump grass the earth would constantly rearrange and not be able to develop ecosystems that HOLD life.  Grass.  Not grass as planted in lawns,  but Wild grasses.  Native Grasses.   

I love her seed face.  I love how one hand gives and one hand receives.  That balance of Giving and Receiving being at the crux of it all.  There is no measuring.  There is no asking.  There is no angst. As in the words of Annie Dillard,  "receiving the given with a fierce and pointed will".

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same view as yesterday,  but More.

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Out at the Raft

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the One who was different things to different people,  made of Herself a cradle for the snow

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and the Mirror on the Ghost Chair reflected back to Sun

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Tay carried her Circle Stick everywhere with her today.

Moisture.  which is …. Life.   Came.  and we looked and saw it and we labored amidst it,  me and the Goats.  Mid day it began to just go.  Just Go into the earth.  But now,  as i write this,  more is drifting silently down.  Water.  Water in the form of Snow.  Everything here depends on Water in the form of Snow.  Forms. Depending.  Laboring amidst.  

 

 

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34 responses to “softly looking”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I exhaled on seeing Grass Woman and then I went to my folder and looked at the photos of your other dolls. Later I looked at the photo album that I have of my twin grand children’s first three months here on this planet. You gifted a very special doll of yours, Little Happiness and five years later, she rests above their shared bedroom door, their Guardian Spirit.
    To be able to create dolls and to create cloths with such depth of meaning, well this is your gift grace. To me, there is a difference between dolls and cloths: it may be that the dolls have weight, are dimensional, seem specific, with a known intent. Your cloths are expansive, open to what comes to us on viewing them from our own connection to the story that presents and so there is a balance between the known and the anticipatory sense of recognition.

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Absolutely amazingly artfelt..heartfelt Grass woman…leave me speechlessly fulfilled! WOW!!!

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  3. Liz Avatar

    to see grass personified … I am in awe

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  4. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hello Grace, much good health and joy to you and your animals this New Year. I am in love with your beautiful, elegant, organic, Grass Woman. That face!! She touches me deeply. Also love your grasses under the snow. ox

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    She has a face a bit like Tay.
    She says so much, every part speaking body language.
    Downfallen snow blankets everything beautifully. I long for snow here. Maybe soon.

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  6. jude Avatar

    it is snowing here this morning. no much, but snow. I sense the third dimension of your image building is important to complete your vision. this figure brings me full circle, to where we began.

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  7. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    you take words that i love…thoughts that i have feelings perhaps well worn but sometimes new or perhaps just newly recognized..perhaps revisited and give them a reality..surprise me with forms and shapes and creation that have such power are created with such care and thought..such a journey..i am so glad to be here
    i am looking at so many meadow grasses poking through the snow..a small riot of gentle colors against the white..i am wondering about the sweet grass behind my newly planted elderberries ..i am waiting for more snow and thinking of the sweetness of the grasses to come..but under all that i am simply riveted by life in your grass clan woman..and the face of the woman who has made of herself a cradle for the snow gentle day grace

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  8. debbie.weaver Avatar

    This figure is exquisite, this was done before my time of finding you I think.

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  9. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    i echo the above comments and find myself wondering…
    why did you stop making these power beings?

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    I see wisdom in that face. Perseverance, as is appropriate for grasses. No snow here yet at all. There is still time, but starting to think this might really be a year without snow.

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  11. Valerianna Avatar

    Beautiful post, Grace… I did a little jump when seeing the grass person, thinking it was the one that lives here. She watches me while I paint, and I, too love the one hand receiving, one giving and her long flowing body.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    Your Grass Spirit holds strong magic Grace!

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  13. beth Avatar

    As others have mentioned… I am left wondering about the difference between the dimensional and the flat cloth work. Both I can recognize as distinctly coming from your heart and hands. Did you have to stiffen cloth for the dolls? Beautiful post. It is rain here. Rain, rain, rain.

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  14. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    (((hihihi))) I am giggling seeing this grass person, I don’t know why (raw nerves?)
    a white world, our’s was white for a couple of days too, I like the white in winter – it’s back to mud and green now, will see what happens

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  15. ² Avatar
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    grace your place full with water Crystals
    little beautyfull wonders

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  16. sparrow Avatar
    sparrow

    grace, your grass woman Be-ing. meeting her felt like a
    unexpected yet no-surprise reunion! her presence so
    settling and so beyond-logic. whatta relief. was tinkering
    this afternoon with what her name might be (as if she
    needs one), and the word “Intrinsic” came to mind.
    she’s been great company.
    grateful as always, grace.
    (much slush and grey here in Michigan)

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  17. sparrow Avatar
    sparrow

    PS. my iphone spaced it like that, don’t know why, oh well

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  18. grace Avatar

    Marti…i love this sense you give here….”open to what comes…
    on viewing from own connections….so there is a balance between the known and the anticipatory sense of recognition”
    THIS IS SO TOTALLY FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  19. grace Avatar

    makes me happy you like Her

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  20. grace Avatar

    they are like that to me. and you would know because you
    give Love to these clump grasses at your Place on the Planet
    I go along and see them on some small ridge of the road side and
    they are like this…feminine, strong, magical

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  21. grace Avatar

    Hello!!!!!!!!, Margaret! and Good Health and Spirit to YOU!
    Grasses magnetize love

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  22. grace Avatar

    Yes. Grass and Tay. very much so.
    and well, my dearest You, you go ahead and long for snow.
    I can’t imagine.

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  23. grace Avatar

    it is. and i don’t know at all how i will be able to pull that
    into Cloth. but there is a way. I’ll find it.
    and yes. Full circle. to where we began.

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  24. grace Avatar

    sweet grass and elderberries
    sweet grass and elderberries
    sweet grass and elderberries
    yes. she made of herself a cradle for What Is.

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  25. grace Avatar

    she was done before i found Jude.

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  26. grace Avatar

    there was that span of time when spirit was low, when just going was all i could do. And when it was Over, i looked at them in a different light. There was a feeling that the energy was isolated.
    But mostly, i could no longer Believe in what i had thought i could
    Believe in. The ground beneath me was gone. But then, that
    eased and i looked at them again, but things had changed. The THING of Diorama had become Primary to me. Had become everything, really.
    and so for a while i was lost. Till i found Spirit Cloth, Jude. Became her student and slowly found a way to create that Diorama,
    or, maybe a sense of it. Isolated energy is isolated energy. Needs Place.

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  27. grace Avatar

    yes. Perseverance. Such a Gift.
    well…if you are longing for snow like Michelle, i wish it for you.

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  28. grace Avatar

    it’s a Great lesson to learn, the one hand this, the other that

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  30. grace Avatar

    no. did not have to stiffen. The heads, masks, were made from
    casting tape to which modeling past was layered. Blobed. then
    i carved the faces with a jack knife. some more human. some
    animal, bird

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  31. grace Avatar

    i would prefer mud and green

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  32. grace Avatar

    they were. crystals…i saw this when i first went Out

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  33. grace Avatar

    so beyond logic. I like this. I like this a LOT.
    Intrinsic…i look it up, just to be sure, originating and included wholly within…
    yes
    and grey slush in Michigan…where i dreamed last night…tonight,
    we’ll see.
    BIG GIANT AND OH SO GRAND LOVE TO YOU

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  34. grace Avatar

    well, it’s your Iphone. Get a trusty old computer box with a
    Mother Board.
    it came out FINE here

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