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stitching down the very small fragments,  slow.   Very slow.  And reminding self that nothing here is for sure yet.  Just Looking.

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a slip of the mouse in Picasa.   Interesting.

While working,  i listened to the most recent interview at On Being…with Ann Hamilton.  It's wonderFULL and rich with so so much,   i listened twice and i will listen again.   and could have written down a zillion things,  but i did write how she refers to  Time as a process,  as a material.   how do you let things take the time they actually need.

in and Out,  the afternoon which comes so soon and very suddenly becomes evening,  i looked and pulled things around,  thinking something, but not really being able to see what the something was/is

 

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so…like this.  Maybe i will see what this feels like?  What it might mean?   Pulling stuff around,  changing it,  i was thinking about it coming into American Holiday season,  Thanksgiving, first and of course there are thoughts about one's family of origin and i thought about my mother,  how every single phone conversation included two questions.  Did you go to church this Sunday?   Why aren't you Here?  For years.   And i thought ok,  i'll make an installation here,  that is just in front of the Raft, that would Include the Raft and also that chair to the left that holds the Mirror  and how maybe it can be some kind of church.  Like a Church for Crows?   It can take all winter.  it can take the time it needs.    I think so.

 

 

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12 responses to “an installation”

  1. Linda Avatar

    My mom always said “when are you coming home?”
    It feels good to know that I am HOME and never have to go back THERE.
    Have a Happy Thanksgiving whatever it is.
    I saw the crows going to their night nesting place today. There were hundreds of them. When I lived in Illinois there were never this many crows. Even with all that corn.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Dear Grace….I like the Picasa serendipity and the cloth as it continues your dreaming thoughts….the church out back is nice. Every place one makes sacred by attention is church enough. I’m off to Massachusetts Monday evening and so, I’ll miss you till December. May you be well, and easy, and full of joy.

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  3. Nanette Avatar

    what did it feel like when your mother asked ‘why aren’t you here’? Was it ok?

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  4. NancyK Avatar

    love the mental inage of a church for crows 🙂

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    Aaarrrrkkk! Aaaaaarrrrrkkkk! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkk-k-k…k!

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  6. Deb G Avatar

    I like that interview too and have listened more than once. Need to listen again. I think it was originally aired last year. Also like the altered photo, the clarity of it.

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  7. grace Avatar

    they gather like this for Purpose

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  8. grace Avatar

    you’ve been There a few days now. I like to think of this

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  9. grace Avatar

    no. not ok. each phone conversation always ended on this
    sad note. I couldn’t be there…which was in Minnesota…
    and i would always say…what would it be Like?, if i were
    there and she would say we could go to church together and
    then out to eat for chinese food.

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  10. grace Avatar

    yes…i do too, very much. Wouldn’t it be amazing if
    someday they would come….
    how they Circle now, but they would spiral down and
    light there, their eyes glistening

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  11. grace Avatar

    it’s interesting, isn’t it…that skewed clarity

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