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let's see if this works.   

So.   I did it.   the Weather App said i had 2 days and as it is,   it was/is true.   It is now COLD.   and…..

RAIN.

so i had imagined what i might do as you can see in the "lying sideways" pic of the previous post…the panel of cloth walnut dyed in New Mexico.    the greyBrown with dark marks.    but that requires tying and also,  letting sit in Sun so that parts exposed to air…uhhhh….oxidize?   I don't know if that's the right word?,  but what comes to mind.   The exposed edges become black.  

i could do neither.   it was too much cloth to tie.   there wasn't enough time.  So i put it in.  Just put it in.   and,  Here,    i could not have wanted More.   It is Earth.   THIS Earth.   I realized that the Marked Cloth wouldn't have worked for what i have in my heart for this.   I want to WRITE things.  On all borders.  Important things.  Things i love.   Things of this singular year.    THIS,   is perfect.  The rectangle spirals  are the most recent ones i've made over these days.  I have kept going.  I keep going.

  

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23 responses to “if”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Photo won’t enlarge so I used my imagination to look deeply and it felt as if I were looking at the earth from up on high, the patches, making land masses, rivers, mountains, valleys, hills, meadows, deserts, oceans- the whole of the world…simply awe inspiring.

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  2. CatherinE Avatar

    This is utterly gorgeous, Grace.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    love how your clothesline gives the work space

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    The background cloth turned out as if it were made just for this project! Haha yes it was!! Absolutely perfect!!

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace you must be so happy .. seeing what I’m seeing here I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t be.

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  6. Deb G Avatar

    Beautiful…

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  7. maria Avatar
    maria

    grace , great the words you would write around , this is who you are, the most importend ….. the hart words , GOOd Luck may it all work wel in the comming more dark day’s , there is light in this cloth for the future , big hug in love

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  8. Liz A Avatar

    I can’t tell if they’re folds or actual marks, but the cloth looks like it holds the rings of a great and ancient tree …

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  9. Faith Avatar

    I Thought the same thing.

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  10. jude Avatar

    beautiful!
    I can’t even log into typepad, lucky you.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    love that this is what you see….how great is this?

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    O….thank you for It

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes it did. more than i’d imagined. Now it’ll wait till
    the other two are finished

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES! gave/gives SPACE!

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am, Tina. I am
    very
    Happy

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes, the words, all around
    and yes, the coming more dark days. They are here

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  17. Nancy Avatar

    Liz~ I can enlarge the pic…looks like it is the wrinkles, perhaps from how it was put to dye. Amazing really.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    i hung it when still very wet. those glorious lines are just from how it dried…will not remain. But are so so
    BeautyFull NOW.

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  19. Nancy Avatar

    Oh my gosh Grace!!!! Just stunning. The first thing I thought was how that gorgeous earth cloth really makes the blocks ‘pop’! This is term I rarely use, as it has been so darn over-used on all of those house/decorating type shows.
    But, in this class…it is the truth. They pop right off the earth!
    I can’t tell you how much I love this…and then to add your words…thoughts, memories…important things. Just wonderful 🙂

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  20. Nancy Avatar

    Oh my gosh Grace!!!! Just stunning. The first thing I thought was how that gorgeous earth cloth really makes the blocks ‘pop’! This is term I rarely use, as it has been so darn over-used on all of those house/decorating type shows.
    But, in this class…it is the truth. They pop right off the earth!
    I can’t tell you how much I love this…and then to add your words…thoughts, memories…important things. Just wonderful 🙂

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    what is so strange to me….that they, Typepad, never
    gave a heads up that they would going to be doing this…
    was so sudden and out of no where. We are used to them
    having glitches but this is something entirely different.
    For me…it’s ummmm, well, confusing, to use your word…i am rarely confused, but in this moment….
    if it all collapses, i have no idea what that might mean for me.

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  22. Nancy Avatar

    You could stitch them, while you can see them…color thread – same as the earth color…the memory of them 🙂

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