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was hesitant.   it's not,  uhhhh,  lovely in any way,   11,   i've not used any of it ever before,  but have carried it with me for 30 some years….a piece of fabric gotten in Oregon.  1989?    From when i lived there a while,  made the Art Dolls and selling  at the Eugene  Artist Market.   Made my living that way.    it brought back memories of those times,  setting up for the Market on weekends,   for a while there was a guy who was a street person…would come to hang out with me at my booth.  Brought lunch which was a wild variety of delicacies  he scrounged from restaurant dumpsters to share.   I was hungry.  it was great.  The cloth bought from a young woman whose name was Beautiful Mountain.  They had i don't know how many kids,  she was breast feeding at least 3 and she WAS Beauty Full,  her,  her Beingness….they made plant essences.     and out of the blue i remembered that this piece of canvas i use as a wall cloth here…it's from then….is from one of the 3 panals of that booth.

so..11   and i thought…this can't possibly work…but………………..it does.  Cloth is ALL INCLUSIVE.   Cloth does not say No.

 

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14 responses to “true again”

  1. Yvette Avatar

    Cloth has the capacity to freshen up old memories

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I went way back, in your blog, to find the diagram that Faith sent showing the numbered pieces to make sure I was looking at # 11. I’m pretty sure # 11 is the cloth strip that looks black but when you enlarge the photo, what a wondrous cloth it turns out to be…it has line striations and leaf imprints and from the story of its origin, fits so well for that time, as it does now in this time for cloth is nothing if not organic, flexible and timeless…

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  3. jude Avatar

    each scrap a window.

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  4. Cj Avatar

    I always wish for more mementos of fabric after giving most new homes in all our down sizing. I had to go around looking for the last thinking would 11 have to be the last. Reading the dumpster delicacies, “Beautiful Mountain” I was immensed in the whole scene. Thinking where I was in ’89. It was a favorite.

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    I lived in Eugene when I was attending Univ of Oregon. 1981-83? I remember the Saturday Market, lots of artisans, hippies, all kinds of people.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    and one memory is threaded to many others…this has
    been a FULL morning of that
    Hello, Yvette, my North Star…..Love and Love to
    you

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the last….on the left outside. with the blotchs.
    you might be thinking the one that is actually a very dark
    green, always photographs black…i wish it didn’t
    and yes…cloth lives OutSide of time

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s never ending, the coming to SEE how this is
    so

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    he cruised all the High End places…they were all
    so neatly placed…him knowing exactly when to check
    as they put out what was left over from the day.
    it really was so
    thoughtful.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    we just missed each other then…. oh, eeeee
    it was. I LOVED it was my most favorite art market
    including the Opera House in Santa Fe.
    it was the end of that segment of time, of that dream
    of the 60’s and 70’s before we all sold out to Normal.
    I am so so glad i was there. Beautiful Mountain and her
    family were School Bus people, like so many. Their bus
    home was truly magic. I met people there who had land
    and a house in Snowflake Arizona. They told me to try it
    out and thought for sure it would Cure me of the longing for
    New Mexico…they LOVED Oregon…..never wanted to go back
    to the desert
    so i went there for a while but it didn’t cure me.
    I haven’t thought about all this in a long time.
    I actually lived in Horton when i was doing the Market.
    LOVE that you are familiar with these places

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  11. maria Avatar
    maria

    Dark … make the light more light

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    it does. they are friends, dark and light

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  13. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    I was there in about ’76. Much the same. Music and dancing in the park. It was a magical time and place but couldn’t find a job, ran out of money, and the man I was with was… a big mistake.

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  14. Nancy Avatar

    To have been of those times and places…sigh. Makes me wish I was older 😉

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