So, to be ready for Jude's Next, i spent time in What If. Spent a LOT of time in Applique. Just like back when in the workshop class, What If again applies to everything.
I'm thinking about what i do…cloth collage….and recently including the drawn, the graphite and ink.
How it has grown from a desire to allow the third element, the plant dye images, patterns and designs to share equally. Not as a component, but as maybe the "scene" in which the components of cloth and drawings tell story? Like a stage upon which the storyPlay unfolds?
Or even, how it seems more, that they (plant dye) are the planet's elements…earth, sky, desert, forest, in which the actors (cloth and drawn image) human, animal and spirit carry out a certain storyPlay.
Both of these Cloths were very much about this. Very much What Ifs.
in Language, there are 4 levels of being, the plant dye "world" upon which is a Bright Day. And then the drawing, the imagined image of a forest spirit, a deva. Telling of language from within the world of Cloth fragments that represent the energies of birds, flowers, moving water, mating, birthing, dying, transforming, seeding, blooming, flying, crawling….the LIFE of the world in which the deva exists.
These are good things to think about. I haven't taken time to do that before. So…What If…..all this? Thank You Jude Hill, Spirit Cloth for reminding to begin again. This is Joy.
from the pic on the lap top, Marti's sacred ordinary.
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