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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.  

 


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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.

 


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from the pic on the lap top,  Marti's sacred ordinary.

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8 responses to “What If ing”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    The Australian ceramic artist Jenny Orchard
    http://jennyorchard.com/press/
    writes love poems to each of her creations, this helps her understand who they are & what she has made. I draw to understand what I have made and in the drawing fleeting insights get scribbled down on the edges

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Thinking and feeling beyond what is there, a kind of what if. I’ve always been a forager, gatherer of the gifts of the land but when I started dyeing with them, it took me into a whole other world…story became so much more, began to speak to me in ways that the simple gathering and placing of what I found, on tables, in glass jars, on window sills, could not do…those were stationary, objects to look at, admire, maybe wonder a little about but using them to create color, markings was like dropping a precious rock and having it explode into geodes of light…from that light, a dialogue began to come with each stitch.
    Well now, my toilet is immortalized ! I hadn’t realized when I took the photo of my vase, lilacs and shower curtain that my toilet would be so prominently displayed. The spray container with the pink liquid is my air freshener. It’s made with water, a sliced lemon, 2 sprigs of rosemary, two sprigs of sage and 2 tsp of dried lavender. All goes into a little pot, brought up to the boil, simmered for 5 min and then filtered into the spray bottle. Works just fine, scent is not all that strong and is so much better to use than commercial sprays.

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    joanne

    Ah, Grace you are reminding me–I have plant dyed cloth. I have the inktense pencils now. I can find out who or what is there in the cloth. Each post of class materials is opening me to so many “if’s” and “why nots”.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    love poems…what a beauty FULL thing, love poems

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    What Beauty we find, how to be so grateful

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    i still have yet to explore the huge potential in the
    Inktense. Maybe soon now…..

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