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maybe?  I'll find out in a few minutes.   Didn't try to upload pics early today.  Just going instead.

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Ta DA!  a pic!  so yes,  maybe whatever was wrong has righted its own self.  This is for Julie.   See how few green leaves?   So we will watch and see if the brush cut makes a good difference for the plant person.  Science.

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and this is nearing IT for the Lilac…the scent has distilled,  is strong as some of the blooms dry.  A GOOD lilac year.

 

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Soon.  I have Patricia's  Iris Cloth all year and now the beauty full papery blooms are coming…watching….

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so many like this.  NEED to be separated and replanted.  So MUCH,  Out There to do

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and i took off the gauze,  the Wind,  today     To make it easier to stitch the rings of the moon,  the thread beads.  And i look at it This way,  without the "wind",  the gauze wind….and i think how maybe 10 more people on the planet love gauze like i do and maybe this Cloth would make more sense this way,  without the gauze wind and i don't know.   But it would change the Name of it….,  House of Wind

if i didn't put the gauze back?

What to think?

But….i am Glad.  Glad that the pics uploaded.  Glad it was a very Fine day.  Glad for a LOT.

 

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28 responses to “normal?”

  1. Christi ~ Sweetpea Path Avatar
    Christi ~ Sweetpea Path

    I wish I could capture the gesture of my dogs with cloth as beautifully as you’ve done here, Grace. Per your question: for me – whatever it might be worth – gauze wind felt a little bit like a fence. With this photo Tay feels more free somehow … she seems to be choosing to stand by her person … and neither is behind a fence. I really love this.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    good to see all the new green shoots growing back on your giant Sacaton grass, when I worked at the Botanic Gardens we would cut the big clumping grasses back hard in late winter early spring to allow them to regenerate every few years & wow you have the best most vigorous irises I have ever seen!
    And especially to see the photos of your dog wind cloth evolving

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  3. Nancy Krampf Avatar
    Nancy Krampf

    i like the gauze ,to me it brings the eye right to the important parts. imho
    and now i am going to look up Sacton.
    kby

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Without the gauze, you don’t get the sense of your cloth naming, The House of Wind. Do you intend to have your names placed near your displayed cloths? The gauze gives such a tactile sensation even when viewing this cloth from afar and the gauze has a sense of lightness, airiness, wind-ness… So here is the Question that I guess presents itself to those of you who sell your work: Do you keep to your vision or do you change for the perceived marketplace?

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  5. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Hmmm … I guess I’m one of the ten … so what if you put back just the horizontal strips of wind? Because I did love the sense of Tay stepping into and through it … but it’s true that the vertical elements were harder for me to comprehend.

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  6. Wendy Watson Avatar
    Wendy Watson

    I’m definitely one of the 10 . . . I like messy ripped gauze though . . . the messier the better which makes me, what, maybe 1 of 5 people on the planet?

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  7. julie Avatar
    julie

    But now it is about Woman and Dog and the elements and that has great meaning too.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I liked the gauze….many artists will tell you whatever makes your eyes dance…for me I really liked the movement of the dog going over the fence. I love that you will have your art displayed for others to enjoy!

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  9. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    I am Glad for your lilacs, moon rings, and those ears.
    another 2-cents…what if it were just the wind at the bottom, with the grand stepping through it?

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    Christi…Thank You for coming, for your sense of it. Tay is so easy to “image”, she is such a Strong Entity.
    Dog, Tay, can be how ever she is. In the cloth that i sent to Wendy for the children there, she was her Own Self. Here, she chooses to remain in the Temporal with the human being, yet it is clear that she can move Out, any minute, into the numinous.
    again, Thank you

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. I was hoping you would weigh in re the clump grasses. I am looking forward to what will come of this. it feels so Violent, yet…….

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    YES…Sacaton. really amazing Beings, these grasses…Taller by a foot or so than me

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…i guess it differs , time to time, about keeping vision or changing…it would differ according to NEED. I sell stuff because i need money to live. so, i would do things according to that. I need to feed Goats. I will become not so much able at some point to make income other ways. So, i do look at things in this light. Sewing is kinder than scrubbing floors.
    But maybe even then, i won’t…won’t
    “compromise”
    in any way whatsoever…don’t know.
    the “naming” of the cloth is really not important to me. it’s a way to identify it. Names don’t have a lot of meaning.
    and here is my bitchy self. If there is no real NEED, like in if you can pay for your shelter, your food, your basics, then you can CHOOSE to NOT sell your work. And you can CHOOSE to hold so firm to certain ideals about your work. But if things are hungry every day, like Goats. Like Goats that belong to a Daughter that you love beyond love, then….
    you do what needs to be done. Period.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    no, because then, it’s not a House. The thing here is a
    secondary but just as REAL House.
    i understand that…about the vertical elements, but Oh Well

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    1 of 5…BLESS YOU

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    both. if it were just House of Sand that is enough. But somehow it wasn’t and kept being “wasn’t”…it was Both. Wind AND Sand

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    dog has access to both worlds, moves easily between

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…Wind is really the strongest Element here. It directs and
    controls so much. We are at it’s Mercy, but we are also Sheltered by it

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  19. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    I don’t use any machinery for gardening, I use a sharp pruning blade for clumping grasses & strelitzias (bird of paradise flowers) to let light and air in every few years, a big old plant can take a few hours, brushcutters are a lot quicker!

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  20. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    as a remarkably unsuccessful artist I just hold to the vision and listen to the materials for each dream that needs to fall out of my hands I have been doing this all my life. I have been selling artwork since 1976, it pays it’s way but like Grace Old Man Crow & I work physically hard as gardeners doing the chores for the well off to pay the rent & put food on the table, if we had to rely on our art and music to make a living we would would be very thin homeless people end of story

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. i look now at what ALL i need to do. Everything, it seems
    has to do with wrist…with thumb and hand. Bringing down the loaded bales of Goat feed, lifting them, stacking them. Raking and moving the wheel barrow. All of it. Hands. To cut this by Hand would
    be maybe a full day for me, the Three of them. So i need to weigh it. What
    can let me continue to do ALL of it. ?????
    in a moment of great frustration some years ago, i got a Bush Whacker. It was a year (before the Goats) that there was Kochia everywhere and i was trying to pull it by hand, crawling along on my knees and i just Broke and bought a really Intense Bush Whacker…that has since gone it’s way, no need to tell that story, but i don’t know, now. Am looking now at what all i need to get Done. How i can manage it all and still have a Life for Cloth, for me….it’s getting interesting.

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  22. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    perhaps when the grandchildren visit they could help with the harder jobs!

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    thin and homeless.
    thin and homeless.
    thin and homeless Goats.
    well, not homeless. but thin. This is what is so endlessly a miracle to me that i had the foresight to not be homeless. So…Home. We have home. The thin part…
    this remains a question. The gremlins try to take me into the Future, into the What If. What will it be LIKE when i find self no longer able to Work Away and Work here? Stuff NEEDS to be done here. it is the Priority. it is FIRST. but then….

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    someone needs to pay the airfare. Their lives are no less a
    challenge. in a way, mine is less. I have this Place.

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    thinking…
    i can sell my Cloths
    OR
    i can sell my days. which means my Life. I can sell something.
    selling something.
    really, selling my Life…selling my Self is easier. Brings more.
    but as time goes on, that becomes more Ify.
    then what?

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  26. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    in Australia older folk like us with no savings or assets are given an old age pension at 65, Old Man Crow receives a part pension & it helps a lot, we don’t have to put the food on the credit card any more!

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. here, there is Social Security. You can “buy” in at 62.
    What i did. it’s a lesser amount than if you wait. But i didn’t trust the government and so took it at the lesser amount of now,
    $700 something a month. i need to put here a Beauty Full piece
    from Rosalie Sorrels about that. I’ll put it tomorrow. But yes.
    And i am amazed and gratefull that it comes. Even though “they” took it monthly all my life from 16 years old, i was SURPRISED and AMAZED that now…it just comes.
    and this amount DOES take care of the immediate needs. For me,
    beyond that are the needs of the Goats. To which i remain Committed. For whatever Karmic reason. There may come a time that i can’t any longer Honor that commitment and then…well….then…

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  28. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    I dream of going back to the bush, growing fruit & vegetables and keeping a cow (or a goat) for milk & a few chickens like I did from ’76 to ’86 but for now we are getting by OK here in the Big Smoke, the cat and the man would rather be in the inner city so I am just going with that!

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