experiment.
the colored pencil amidst the threads.
thinking about Jude's tutorial on composition.
can the colored pencil and stitch Ground this?, ground it "enough"?
have just begun…going slow…~
should also say that the
pleasure
of marking this woven cloth is
enormous
what if
this was all i had to work with
and suddenly,
Christmas
became very important.
how would i make these
pieces of cloth as
beautiful as i possibly could?
so, this is the silk wad i salvaged from
Martha's trash. i talked with her yesterday
eve and found out that it is:
cobweb silk 2/60
she gets it from ColourMart UK
really really like this thread
am pretty sure….
but here's some last pics before it flies…
each seam is like this close up..
it's really quite amazing. and when i
hung it on the curtain to take the pics i
did see some "flaws" of character, maybe a
water mark? but, for sure a beauty.
before i forge ahead….i am wondering.
i have used colored pencil on the area of
the mountain ridges, bled it with turpenoid. on
the far right, did this ~after~ i'd stitched, so
colored pencil is on stitch thread too. have
this feeling that it is kind of "cheating"…
but i didn't want to put fabric there, as in
applique a piece, even silk gauze, which was
tempting…and maybe i still will do that…
but i for what ever reason wanted to stitch it
but also the floss was too defined of colors.
thread i used is some very fine weaving silk that
Martha the weaver had thrown out…kind of a
neutral almost wheat. in the midst of all this,
i am thinking of dyeing threads, silk threads,
even for this cotton muslin stitching…i like
using it a lot…different quality makes it good
for diffused images.
so, halfway through the day.
about this piece of silk?
thrift shop again…
28" wide by about 4 yards long
??????
what did you use the ROOM for, before Spirit Cloth which i think i will
refer to as bSc.
Jude said:
"a room is such a personal space concept"
so…i liked your question, Helen. and all day i thought.
what DID i do.
well, i did make some things…trying to get back to
the
feeling of them. gourds. fiber figures.
i GREW a lot of things and spent maybe almost a
year with Sharon Astyk's work Depletion and Abundance
trying to learn all i could about what "Sustainable"
ment…individually, here, as a member of my community
here and as a citizen of the planet.
i looked at my kids when they were here and then
at their pics when they had left. i thought about
them.
i looked at my self. who on earth is She?
i guess i learned a lot. and i brought it all into
this Room.
the Room was i think a statement for me of having
endured.
it was a celebration of that. of having imagined
something that didn't happen as it had been imagined.
and then enduring the reality until …. hmmmm
until it freed me.
the Room was the "gesture: of that. my daughter,
jenny, and i smashed out, cut out with a sawzall
the wall of the trailer and made the ROOM.
i need to think more about this now.
but, Helen, that's what i did, pretty much.
Anne LaMott has a book…Traveling Mercies
and i looked at these after Jude's comment about a
tent
and thought yes…
these Window Hangers could be anywhere.
originally i was going to stitch all the 9 patches
together. Maybe not.
Maybe at this point in time, i will leave
them more
flexible
to
place.
as is, they could each hang from any
branch, anywhere.
…bird flags?…. OHHHHH. I HAVE A HUGE
WHAT IF
IDEA………..~
trying to put the rim of the mountains
in
without
putting the rim of the mountains in
and so this little rats nest of
stitches which i am about to
take all out
but wanting it noted here
