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Bleary but Grateful

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i woke this morning to an Email from Jan the Dog Trainer.  When she got back from Albuquerque last eve she noticed something different…and in her Doe Yard….another Goat,  a tiny one!!!!  One of her young does,  10 mos. old,  there are two,  from TenZen last year,  one of her young, too young does,  had a kid!  NOT the one she had seen sneaking  into Sunny Ray's pen,  but the Other One.   !!!!!    It's a little buckling…which is not so great as if it were a doeling,  but still,  for her a good thing because she can now,  well, soon,  milk this one.  For me it is Grand!  Sunny Ray is "a proven buck"!!!  After all that initial ya ya that he seemed to be sterile,  NO!  HE IS GOOD!  

 

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and then i spent the next 7 and 1/2 hours STRAiGHT stitching the borders.   It doesn't show here much at all,  but it's is there…to the eye…all accept for the bottom and i am not sure if i want that "closed in".  Will wait till tomorrow and see how it feels. 
This border thing,  it's as much as i will ever get to "a finished border",  i think.  I can't bear to close the edges in by turning them.  So this is a compromise.  It seems to work.  so OK.

 

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When i went to bring the 3 new tree/bushes over near the water to a sheltered place,  i saw this and pulled it.  What IS it?  Instinctively i know it's not good for Goats,  but What IS it?  And how had i not seen it before????….it's BIG

 

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have sent an email with pic to Bill.  He will know.  And even if it isn't good for Goats,  i have to Admire it…LOOK at the size of the seeds….how amazing it is

Tomorrow i need to finish this Cloth.  In order to be ready for the Art Thing in Magdalena.  Which part of me feels good about and part does not.  Those 7 1/2 hours….they TAKE.

Tay ran tonight when i was out feeding and giving water,  she RAN hard and fast and so close that sometimes she rammed me or ran over my feet.  She has feelings.  When i fed the Goats tonight,  the doe Goats also rammed close….not hard,  as in to do harm,  but close to it.  Tho they don't need me to be doing anything in particular WITH THEM during a day,  they somehow just need me to be Out There…moving around,  just going.   Things need the just goingness.  and if it isn't happening,  they express themselves

 

 

 

 

 

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16 responses to “Bleary but Grateful”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    loving how that other face in the hills is there too… and re your “weed” haven’t got a clue what it is but it has a pretty seed head… that heart shaped stone is a beauty & Hooray for Sunny Ray doing his job but the young doe may be a bit too young to milk…

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    Nigerians are ok. She will be ok.
    the Grass Thing…maybe a kind of Sorgum? Bill will know, his thing is Grasses
    and yes. Hooray for Sunny Ray. This is BIG and so really GREAT

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  3. sue Avatar
    sue

    the border adds a nice touch. good news about sunny ray:)

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  4. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    this cloth is so beautiful. and well done, Sunny Ray. I’m wondering about this preparation for the show at Magdalena. because I do think it’s a good thing to do. yet suddenly the hours are counted more. and the reason for making things shifts slightly. to what people might like, instead of only following one’s own instinct about what to make. . .about how a cloth will go. I’ve had this experience a bit and there is an extra burden to the work somehow. can that burden be thrown off? is that what feels not good to you?

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  5. dee Avatar
    dee

    Love the sense of depth in this one. Could the stalk be Timothy grass?

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This cloth is Magdalena; speaks so strongly about the land and how I remember it from our drive to Magdalena a few years ago. To me, this would be the most perfect focal point of your exhibit. Have your thoughts, ideas, the anticipated joy in sharing conversations, connections with others, face to face, about the making of your cloths, changed since last year? I looked back into your archives, specifically April 28, 2015 and I was again stuck by how you displayed your works last year, on a folding screen that made them stand out, simply and yet so elegantly. I think there was discussion about whether or not you should have narrative with each piece. I think the strength of your work is such that to me, it is not necessary to have more than a name,or a title, maybe not even that because the cloths stand on their own, drawing you in until you know and see with your inner eye as well as full straight on. Will you use the same folding screen to display these cloths or will Bear Mtn Gallery have a different way of displaying them?

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  7. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    I don’t know anything about your grasses but it looks a bit like barley.
    Loving the cloth

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    the “kantha” border is almost like it “holds” the story…
    like hands holding something. i like that a lot.
    Yes…Sunny Raaaaay!

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    most of what feels not good is the thing about Time. I am
    stubborn about how i experience Time, more and more, and
    actually having a ~deadline~ well,
    but when it’s happening, all this will fade.
    i still ask self questions about how others might see a Cloth
    but more and more realized that there are Cloths, other’s
    work Out There that will meet the imaginations of all of us
    and what i do is just what i do….
    but in this case, it still does have something to do with it,
    i want Danielle to feel ok about what’s on her wall, but
    then, i think, well that’s up to her….not me

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…the Space. the space has held
    Barley. Feral Barley

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    the way they will be hung is up to Danielle. She is incorporating them into a full Gallery. When i was there we decided, most
    likely unless it changes, we decided that the 4 smaller ones
    will be together on a vertical wall space and this one will be
    above a kind of rustic large shadow box with multiple little
    spaces in it, kind of like some of the things Saskia has
    in her studio. It will be above that. There’s no room for
    the folding screen there.
    She also will make small cards for each with the name and price.
    printed out….as there is on all of the other things in the
    gallery so it’s all congruent.
    about thoughts and feelings changed since last year? I think
    the answer to that is yes, but i’m not sure how to answer
    the question. I think it’s something about having lessened
    “hopes”, expectations, imaginations about it all. more
    subdued.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    i emailed the pics to Bill who knows Grasses and you are
    RIGHT, he says it’s called Hare Barley, a feral barley.
    it’s really extraordinary and it’s clear that it came here
    via Bird. There’s only one of it and it’s under Doris’
    Snake Tree. So i’m guessing one of the morning doves. That’s
    where they hang out.

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  13. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    is barley bad for the goats?

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  14. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    It is sometimes hard to tell, but this cloth looks bigger than your usual working size. Bigger takes longer, that’s for sure. It is so evocative of your land…that black printed piece in the middle of the mountains is perfect and I love the similarities between the birds and the lizards. They are both reminiscent of dinosaurs, ancient denizens of the desert, and your embroidery emphasizes that to me. Happy news about Sunny Ray! Usefulness is at the core of being for domesticated herd animals and it is great that he is able to do his job.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    no…it isn’t. What i “saw” was something so similar to
    Foxtail which is really a problem for any animal, dogs too
    the seed heads getting lodged in nostrils. I watch for them and pull them.
    but Bill says it’s Barley.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s bigger than the recent ones but is really, back to the
    size i worked with a while back. And size….Bigger is really
    in it’s own way Easier. Smaller requires all kinds of thinking.
    and yes, Sunny Ray, today still, i walk around happy

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