windthread

i did glue it down.   It's good.   And i look at it today,  in contrast to today's, (which is above now,  should be below but i somehow deleted it there )  and it caused me to think that this is more actually a collage…to me,  meaning several components touching one another creating a whole…of many.

lost pic here somehow…..the pic at the top,  todays,   goes here.

this is different.   what would be the term for it?    And then i realized how similar it is to the way i work with cloth.  Placing things and leaving space,  the space to me being an important component in its self.   I want to think about that more.

But i like it.   The gold/yellow ground is tissue wrapping paper.  The prompt said:  the key is visual and/or tactile and immediately it came to mind.  Down in the Paper Tub at B.   All that,  it, drawing paper,  cards envelopes pages of things had gotten wet  when in the cardboard packing box  and moved into the dry tub as is last year.  And then sat and,  sits still.  I LOVE it.   it's creases and lines are organic and this particular piece was against something that bled color into it,  marking it,  much how cloth is marked with plant material,  metal.   The color is an indigo.   It could not be more beauty Full to me and as i worked with it i wondered if i could do more On Purpose.   There's alot of paper in that tub that i mentally and emotionally just wrote off as wasted…but now…i'm thinking…..Wait!  go look.  Maybe not,  maybe not at all.  maybe just fermented.  

i love running my finger over it.  so, yes.  tactile AND visual.   the other part of the prompt was to express something the viewer wouldn't know unless you left them a clue.   The indigo imprint and the tissue itself feels like a veil between.   As i am doing,  i went through all the paper looking for what might be  The Ones.   Then…without intention,   just placed some and here we have it and i looked and thought if it responded to the prompt…it did.   How you might not know that there is such a part of me that still  so much wants to be able to Call magic….to place sticks in a certain way to simulate a nest,  to place objects near and maybe maybe Crow will come.  So now you know.

i listened to  Future Primitive Podcast….futureprimitive.org   to the podcast of  Jan 7  Asking the Right Questions,  interview between Joanna Harcourt~Smith and Daniel Christian Wahl  whose book is Designing Regenerative Cultures.  Many new ways of thinking,  many good  HARD questions.