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not even legs yet,  and the arrival has changed things.  as it would.  

and as if i already knew,  i woke this morning to thinking i would need to accept drawing the faces more with ink….give up the softness of graphite somehow.  And i then knew i would need to really ask the question of WHY THE DRAWN FACES anyway?  Why is that so important?  What does it mean to the Energy of the Cloth?  What does it mean to me?    So here we are.  Am hoping that tomorrow i can have time to go back through the Archives and look at faces over the 10 years.  And even further back to remembering the faces on the fiber figures from long before Jude and Spirit Cloth.  Those were done with modeling paste on gauze.  Carved with my father's jack knife.  Painted with oils that i bled with turpentine washes.  A long time to get to Here.  But Here i am.  How do i do this?  

i look so much forward to Legs,  feet.  I LOVE the arms and legs and feet of lizards.  Just moments ago i was down to give water at the Wall Garden…lizards appear and disappear,  their elegant selves.  How they pause,  perfectly still for a moment for eye contact, which feels like a Blessing to me.  I SEE you.

 

 

 

 

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14 responses to “so”

  1. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    WOW. Looking back ten years and more is quite a task. About faces…we search for them even in abstracts. I like faces and like them drawn or sewn too.
    (off topic…book size package sent to you had expected delivery date of 6/22. Hope you can get it somehow. It’s not a book, it’s cloth)

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) look forward to seeing how you resolve the balance between line and cloth, this is such a beauty!

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Maybe this will help:
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/10/the-dolls.html

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    actually, I did some 3d faces a while back, and looking here reminded me. i really like how the fold “lines” emerge here, how there is a sense of drawing emerging from that. a little to show about line work in part 2 as well. because line is my transition back to drawing.

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  5. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    perhaps just another layer of pencil on the face lines? I thought of a line of thread–but it felt too heavy for you. You whisper. Pencil can whisper.
    Rain and the Plumber today. Not quiet.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    all three kinds of lines seem important to be here…
    the marks of plants, the cloths, the drawn…all
    3.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes..all ways, drawn, sewn,
    it when they are so small..in this case, a quarter of
    an inch
    sewing, even a single thread is too much
    got pkg/sent email

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i do too. feels like a transitional point

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ahhh, Marti…..i clicked the link and was not
    expecting Them…what a surprise. I still love
    those faces so much, loved carving them, watching
    the Being begin to appear…finding out who was there.
    Loved the whole process, the smell of the oil paint,
    turpentine
    Thank you for this, a LOT

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes..as i said to Michelle above, this one is
    a quarter of an inch…so small…impossible with
    thread
    and what Cloth seems to be wanting to talk about isn’t
    something that larger figures would be about…
    I will sit with her in a few minutes and see if anything
    happens. Maybe i have to wait
    but i love plumbers, they FIX things

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  11. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Oh grace, this cloth is beautiful. Love your questioning about faces.
    I clicked on the link Marti sent. That was long before I started following your blog. When I saw the first doll, I immediately felt like I knew her.
    Started to read the comments and came to the one from Jacqui that says “Their faces are so familiar to me”, then I went back to the picture and double clicked on it. I enlarged the picture and was awestruck. Her nose is like my paternal grandmothers, and mine is the same, I traced mine with my finger as I viewed the photo. Gave me goosebumps. What a blessing for me to see her face in this doll. As a very, very young child I knew love because of her. Thank you!

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Jackie…i LOVE, so LOVE that you took the time to write these words….means so much to me.
    love so much that you touched your own face. I would do that, when carving, trying to know, i would touch my face
    if you would email me, i will in the not too distant future get a good photograph of this Being and make a print for you. Send you. your grandmother…you.
    Big Love…..

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  13. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    grace when I click your “email me” it won’t work. Don’t know your email address. I am not at all computer savvy so am waiting to ask my daughter or sister for help. In the meantime I looked for a picture of my grandmother to send you. Also hollyhocks always bring back memories of her. They grew along the farmhouse and were taller than me. So beauty full! Isn’t the universe grand.
    Love to you
    Jackie

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    typepad is not a happy thing in a couple ways recently.
    that email me SHOULD work…i am going to have to try
    to do something different…
    email is: grace.porvida@gmail.com
    now, hollyhocks enter the Picture..sometimes it is
    all so Beauty Full how it seems that all the pieces
    of Everything just float around, hoping to be
    put Together, yes?

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