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for a while now,  quite a while,  i have had less ability with words,  with language.  Partly because it seems to minimize.  once words appear,  they become definition,  not necessarily at all expressing the experience….the words elicit myriad associations.  And with this Cloth, this might be particularly true because it is not about words or particular Things,  but rather about felt/sense  and some kind of, actually,  Unity,  that i really don't understand.  Being maybe about the Beauty and then the UnBeauty in the way we understand Beauty,  a 

Raw kind of beauty

i've begun to stitch it down.  I realized that the beads appeared here as Example,  the Cloth would want thread beads.  ok.    I'd wondered about that.  This string of beads has been so many places and in this moment at least,  wants to be free to continue.

 

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i stitched these loose random threads…couched them down.  In a certain way,  they are about what this Cloth is saying.

it was an extraordinarily perfect day.  Warm but not hot.  Wind but not hard.  Clouds and SUN….the grand and elegant Sun.  and i read how Elon Musk has offered his mind to the govenor of Puerto Rico to create a Solar world there.  I think how we Can't Know anything about these times.   They are fecund in their own way.

 

 

 

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16 responses to “Cloth speak”

  1. Deb Lacativa Avatar

    Your few words tell around what the eye is given here. a completing. I have a few strings of beads that I have been moving around since the 60’s, restringing them as the decades have required. Going to find them now.

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    YES those beads have a LIFE on this cloth–moving, moving….. And the thread, random….. energy, nest, wind.
    My husband and I have been talking about solar for Puerto Rico. Power, Heat, Energy for cars, Communication. Self sustaining.

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  3. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Thread beads, and real beads as example. Placement, pattern. Their voice captured and they remain free. When words are captured, heard or read, they seem to become set in stone and impossible to take back if misspoken. Your words, Grace, are always full of thought and a wonderful read.

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  4. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    eye of the storm. . .it’s what you do. . .what we all do, but sometimes we withdraw and come back when we are able. . .oh grace, those black and white beads!. . .substance and dimension in the midst of the storm. . .e. . . . .

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    I love the snake of magic beads on this cloth!

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  6. saskia Avatar

    they do speak
    love you

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  7. debbie.weaver Avatar

    lovely piece, words are not always necessary.

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  8. ali Avatar
    ali

    Your are right that words limit things Grace, often hide as much as they reveal, I love your just being with….

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  9. grace Avatar

    i like thinking of you doing that….finding them, reView

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  10. grace Avatar

    it hope it can happen….it would be such a beacon in
    these times when we are Wasting Time

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  11. grace Avatar

    i think things can always be misspoken, missheard….
    but i guess that’s ok too….
    that phrase of Momeday…”to utter and to hear” it’s just
    what we do….

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  12. grace Avatar

    i’m glad you see them as you do….very glad…
    Love to you, Jan

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  13. grace Avatar

    Monday now….you said the magic word

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes, don’t they?
    Love back

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  15. grace Avatar

    they are not.
    but too…i think about the importance of story

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  16. grace Avatar

    hide and reveal….love these words….

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