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and then,  the "sky" became just a cloudy grey.

am thinking about the words magical realism.  

 

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just at the end of the day i noticed this at the bottom of the front porch steps,  

turn your head to the right and there it is right by the wooden box….??????  What IS it?

 

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got my finger wet with spit and  rubbed off the dirt….

I have No Idea.  What it looks most like is some very old piece of linoleum???

but it's Beauty FULL,  the colors,  the wildness of it's design,   and there's ways to deal with things….i could pick it out of the earth with my finger or a stick,  i could cover it back up,  make it hidden again as it must have been for a long long time,  or i can imagine things about it.  Maybe tomorrow i'll pour a little water on it and take another clearer pic.  

But this is actually a good example of what i was trying to think about all day…magical realism….how i have somehow for whatever reason in the last years,  lost my relationship with that.  Did i lose my Heart for it?,  My Eye for it?,  was it too hard to communicate so i just stopped trying?  Have i

"settled" ?   Because there's been too much other Stuff?  

 

 

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19 responses to “in one single moment”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    a favourite quote which I have spent many a happy hour contemplating-
    “In Magic Realism as both literature and visual art the necessity of fantasy is intertwined with the inescapable condition of the real.”
    Diane Thodos in conversation with Audrey Niffenengger 2004
    http://www.artcritical.com/2004/05/01/audrey-niffenegger/

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    No you didn’t stop trying, it is within you and always has been…one word, CLOTH, and how you take us on these story paths with what you make with needle and thread. It takes an eye to show the magic that exists in the real and mira, look at these sky photos – you brought this magic to us here. Mira at the round orbs dancing in the dirt, yes it could be a piece of old linoleum buried in the dirt but YOU saw it, brought it to our attention, wondered about it, gave it the quality of something beyond the ordinary as you have brought so many things to us even in the midst of Robert’s passing, and the family situation.
    Mi querida grace, you haven’t lost your eye nor have you settled because how you SEE the world is from a deep lens within yourself, your soul, where the magic of viewing the daily offerings transforms into the extraordinary that you so attentively share with all of us.

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace it is with profound gratitude to you for teaching me so much…..about seeing and believing through your honesty in the words and pictures…..this virtual village of wonder….teaches me daily that I/we are never alone. Sending you Grace and all your visitors thankful BLESSINGS this THANKSgiving!

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  4. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    oh grace just reading this..double clicking on the image..stopping to think..to enjoy the blurring of color and shape..thinking about the clarity that comes when i visit here..there is a line in the article Mo placed in above..your images have a way of giving me a story that i want to know….Marti writes about seeing through the deep lens within yourself…Tina says ..this virtual village of wonder..well obviously you..we …have read those things..but it never ceases to amaze me..the importance..the joy..the feeling of coming to a place where thought and dream blend..where my thoughts are both stretched.with the feeling of discovery..of a vision not my own..combined somehow with small recognitions..and joy..oh you see this as well..
    how these ..mainly..women are real to me ….how delighted i am when i read a comment and then let myself see who wrote it..knowing them by their tone…somewhere..in my brain..in my mind’s eye..in my heart..how worlds so very different meet..how your cloth and your words and your pictures gather us in, make this place
    and how to me this kind of magic comes as it will..it is personal..and sometimes when you meet it ..you realize there has been a void..filled with Stuff perhaps..but i love the joy when it is found..the moments when your mind begins to play with it..and to know that you have that in your life..whenever it chooses to be there..such a gift..
    ok so there is so much going on here on this hillside..some days just being in the moment is hard..and being in the moment with any sort of intent is close to laughable…but then the moments of such piercing joy..whether they are grounded in the reality of the well pump working..or the ability to watch my day break while seeing images of yours on this screen in front of me..there is just so much..my mind fills with new thoughts ..the world shifts
    and it happens here..day after day..magic happens..and i am filled with gratitude gentle day grace

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  5. dee Avatar

    if you’ve lost the capacity to wonder then I must be dead

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  6. beth Avatar

    Oh that sky… I’m not sure we can remain in that state of mind where these things occur for very long periods of time. And perhaps that contributes to the specialness, the magic of them when they do happen. I try to remain open to it and take the time to embrace it when it occurs.

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  7. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    Marti, your words make a black and white path for re-centering your friend’s perceptions. placing all that grace lives and gives in its true context. a thousand thank you’s.

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  8. Els Avatar

    Great you captured that sunset moment !!!!
    (sometimes I see it, and before I have my camera out it’s almost gone…. or doesn’t look thΓ‘t spectacular on camera at all … )
    Love the magic ring find πŸ˜‰

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  9. yvette Avatar

    Fantastic the colors of sunst
    Also the colors of the linoleum
    I don’t to spoil the feast of color but…..asbest?

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  10. grace Avatar

    I just am loving this whole interview…THANK YOU
    and…what if it’s not
    fantasy
    but a different view of reality, the side of it that IS
    magic
    with the inescapable condition of the real
    SO MUCH here to consider

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  11. grace Avatar

    you are always so loving to me
    i feel though that it’s the constant RELATIONSHIP that has
    drifted off center…am looking to understand that more
    not so much me and Stuff, but US….living the same

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  12. grace Avatar

    still…the recentering on Relationship, constant relationship

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  13. grace Avatar

    We ARE just the best, aren’t WE…and that includes YOU!

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  14. grace Avatar

    it’s Wonder FULL, isn’t it, how we have come to
    know eachother by the “tone”…..i love this SO much….
    and carry great gratitude for it in each moment

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  15. grace Avatar

    you make me SMILE…..

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  16. grace Avatar

    i was sitting in the morning chair, staring into the fire
    lost in thought
    it was still dark and i got lost in thought and if i had
    not turned my head just slightly to the left, i would
    have missed it entirely…it was gone in literally a single
    moment

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  17. grace Avatar

    it was a SunRISE…..caught me by Surprise

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  18. grace Avatar

    don’t know…but it’s such a small old piece, maybe 3 inches

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  19. Mo Crow Avatar

    circling enchantment aka the flighty nature of chance, here’s a link to an essay I wrote in 2006-
    http://www.bluecatheaven.com.au/Mos%20art/the%20attic/the%20mystic/enchantment.html

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