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i need to think a little more before the words.     

Later:

when i "heard" Jude say she might do one more On Line Class,  I was beyond happy.  The thought set free so many images,  about  what it might be…and foremost  I guess was the hope that it might be a continuation of the 21st Century Rags…the robe,  the boro noragi,  maybe some kind of  "housedress" even.  Though i don't need any of these,  but just love them….And immediately there was the image of a "doll" figure.  Maybe a Person for Emrie.  Make whatever Jude gives US, FOR this figure,  this being….and simultaneously,  i thought, TWO of them,  one for Emrie,  one for Wendy Golden Levetts children.  Two.  And it all blossomed out from there.

The first drawing was immediately followed by the second.  I will need to sit quietly and wait for "instruction"…..What kind of being will this be?  And right now, not so much a human figure,  but a Spirit Being,  taking human form.  Not this and Not that…something inbetween.

What i know  in the moment  is that the figure will be a traditional cloth figure…the seamed joints,  It would be important that it can move around OutSide…sit on a rock,  on a tree limb,  on the bank of a stream.  And so probably made of muslin.   It will be important that it is the right shade of brown, maybe Tea Dye skin.  It would be important that the "expression of the face remain somehow neutral so Imagination can let it carry many emotions,  any emotion,  as needed.

2 ft tall i think.

When i made the dolls before,  in the past,  (somewhere there are some pics in the Archives)  they were Art Dolls.  They were fragile.  Made to hang on a wall or sit on a shelf.  This one…made to be a Friend.  To partner up.  To live a Life.

 

 

 

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29 responses to “a friend”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the striped stocking!

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  2. jude Avatar

    ah, finally. the doll.

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  3. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Pipi?

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    A doll … oh Grace she will be filled with love … and loved!

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  5. Nancy Avatar

    Such a being coming to/through you! Love she/he/it already 🙂

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    i used to have “tights” like that…i look for them all
    the time. Can’t find.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i didn’t think i would.
    Emrie gives me reason.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    i never read that…i’ll go look. But this is more
    like tatooed on the leg

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am excited to do this

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. if i can keep the energy of she/he, especially for
    Wendy’s kids

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  11. ² Avatar
    ²

    it is like you will made a kind of a twin and
    split them up , to wendy’s , to Emrie ?

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    I had a pair of those striped tights back in ’77, will keep an eye out this winter for you!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…you have it!…one for THIS world, one for THE world
    Twins. I love this so much, twins….

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  14. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Ha – the past reincarnates as the present for the future.
    Delightful project.

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  15. Liz A Avatar

    Oh, please let us see the becoming as it happens … and I dare to say this makes me want to make a friend for sweet P

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  16. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I made something like this–so long ago–for my little girl–about Emrie’s age now.
    She carried it everywhere and there were adventures. always undressed. I made a dress but
    Sam removed it. I like the idea of embroidered or print or stripes for the legs. And a heart.
    Sam would run her fingers over the heart…

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  17. Nancy Avatar

    …the energy and some soothing lavender in the belly 🙂

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  18. Nancy Avatar

    Yes, a heart (((smile)))

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  19. Martine Bos Avatar

    This is going to be an adventure…………….

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  20. dee Avatar

    Me too (glad about class). I so love that you’re going back to dolls. Or maybe they’re coming back to you. How life with its fulsome connections and learning will make it so different this time. How GIVINg informs MAKING.

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  21. Saskia Avatar

    Stripy sock! Yay
    And yes nodding in agreement with Dee, how giving informs making. Adding to which: how making informs thoughts and ideas. How things keep on going

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  22. grace Maestas Avatar
    grace Maestas

    Ha, for sure.

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  23. grace Maestas Avatar
    grace Maestas

    it’s going to be happening in my mind for a while yet

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  24. grace Maestas Avatar
    grace Maestas

    this one might have chakras

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  25. grace Maestas Avatar
    grace Maestas

    still just in my mind

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  26. grace Maestas Avatar
    grace Maestas

    will be very different, yes.

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  27. grace Maestas Avatar
    grace Maestas

    making..how making informs Being…

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  28. Deb G Avatar

    Love this, it makes me dream.

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