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i wadded cloth again and on the way down to Give Water to the Wall Garden,  i pushed them in and two others,  between the galls.  I'd taken off the lid this morning and by this time,  early evening,  a lot had evaporated.  Giving Water there,  the Wall Garden,  the two trees and three grapevines,  takes about an hour.  If you move along,  don't get distracted by watching the spring peepers appear and disappear,  looking at stones.    I got a pitcher of water from the canal/creek to give to this pot.  While i watered,  Tay drank half of it.  Had to return to fill.

When i returned after that,  i guess, really more like an hour and a half give or take,   THIS!    And because i am how i am,  i undid the bundle  of these two.  Left two.   Undid them and hung them to the cloth line.  I am close to ecstatic.

 

 

 

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and because maybe of Beauty afoot,  i managed just now to figure out putting this second pic!!!!!  The Mother's Day Fig Tree.  Could there be any fruit more elegant?

Looking Up,  i see that MOON is nearing Full.

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17 responses to “maybe because everyThing is so Beauty Full”

  1. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I see the fig had been pollinated. Next year will be the test.
    I read that fig leaves can be used in a contact print on cloth. Wrapped tight and heated.
    Your fig leaves look just like mine–no figs but I can dream.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    well….this little tree CAME with figs already in place.
    We remember, this kind of fig needs the assistance of a wasp for pollenation?..wouldn’t it be just a trip if the Gall Wasp might be It?
    i am never trying for specific imprints…they,to me, are just beyond any more….as in they stand alone, as is. I like the abstract marks, that elicit Story and that i can draw on.
    a fig dream would be a good dream, indeed.

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  3. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Although the figs are FULL of beauty and color, the green of the leaf with the white veins are patterns I could get lost in.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Deep joy in seeing your cast iron pot, filled with oak galls, cloth, already receiving color not only from the galls but also from your pot. For me the act of foraging and only taking what is needed to dye cloth echoes back to your post of Robin Wall Kimmerer, reciprocity. The cloth created from the gifts of the land is a way to honor, respect, and give thanks for what was taken and used in the process of dyeing cloth. When I dye cloth it is not the clarity of an imprint that I hope for because I rarely get them . The intent and the joy for me comes from knowing that color will come forth as well as abstract markings and in these markings, a story is waiting to be told…

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I love both the abstract random coloring of cloth where I can See faces and creatures and story emerge, and I love it when a leaf print gives me its ghost of self. The science of alchemy is so fascinating.

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    you give a fig!

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are so interesting…will read more about
    them

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think of Patricia Spanglers work…the imprints so
    elegant
    what i hope for is a “canvas” that holds story, that
    asks for drawing and stitching.
    In a few minutes, i’ll walk over the hill and see
    what is dry now on the cloth line. See what the night
    brought to the two i left in the pot.
    hopefully my Happiness will settle and i can leave some
    longer. Hopefully i will be able to find the other
    cast iron in the storage place.
    Hopefully….interesting how the Oak Galls have brought
    that word, that feeling into play…Hope, Hopefull

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    “its …ghost of self”
    love these words and the images they bring

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  10. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Oh yes, Patricia’s work is so finely exquisite. She takes Peggy’s wonderful description of leaf imprints as “ghost of selves” to another dimension because in her work, she finds the soul of the leaf and her cloths shimmer with this beauty.
    Looking forward to how you listen to what your CA cloths tell you and how you bring your own special creativity through stitch and drawing to tell your deep and connective stories of place.

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  11. Liz A Avatar

    Two pictures!

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  12. Angie Avatar

    Such a fascinating, fun post! Life crises going on around here, and haven’t let cloth whisper their dreams to me in far too long.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…listen, i say to self…listen to Place….

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    yup!…i think i’ve Got it…we’ll see. It used to be
    so easy

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i hope you can let it happen…Cloth takes in and gives
    so much

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  16. Saskia Avatar

    both pot and fig look delicious

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