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i received a package from Saskia.  Tales from the birdhut.  dot blogspot,  Netherlands.   Many small pieces of cloth she marked,  some distinct and complex,  some,  like this one…so subtle….and i sat this morning and the URGE to draw on it….

how it is.  If you want to learn a different language,  an Earth Language,  how your gaze must become empty of what you already know,  must be open to what you do not know and then,  how you would breathe and let your self that you know become particles,  moving,  particles and no defined form…how that feels as the sides of your skull loosen and  release and you become the Space that you are in with just "eyes,  nostrils, mouth opening"….maybe your breathing becomes sound?,  like song?  Song, but not song….no "tune",  nothing familiar,  but song nonetheless….

the drawing was very fast,  impulsive.  i do not love the word doodle,  but i guess that's what might most describe it.  or……?

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15 responses to “urge”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Wow all the way from the Netherlands .. amazing isn’t it. Yes it is a small world after all .. the fabric is beautiful and that it spoke to you in this way .. I love it.

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  2. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    loosening our own form in order to learn: yes: perhaps the word ‘sketch’ because this is so purposeful

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    beautiful drawing!

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar

    You’re in your ‘Zone’. Is impulse the same as desire…you were drawn to draw and let yourself. This is good.
    Wonderful earth cloths.

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  5. jude Avatar

    I like the word Doodle.

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  6. Vicky Davis Avatar

    skoodle….or skeetle…or doosket…dooche didn’t work…hahahaha

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    Whatever you call it, I love your drawings

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…just those 3 marks at the top, the oh so vague moon
    talking
    I love it too. Very Much

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    sketch isn’t it either, but i don’t know what is
    it always begins with the eyes

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are. earth cloths. i am lucky.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    yeah. I know. i don’t.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i like dooche better than doodle

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    drawings. they’re drawings. good enough.

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