windthread

 

looking these days at jude's last spirit cloth post and at
square sea corner
it has been there maybe 3 days now? and good, because it has taken me that long to
listen.
am seeing now consciously what the reposting of the Raven hinted at…
that this cloth pattern, with half woven, and then half or so a small cloth of
what is on my mind
and then a long cloth of something that almost feels like the soundtrack. (just
instrumental, no vocal)
the woven part is like the code, the little "key" down at the bottom of maps…
the morse code…more What ifing wanted here…
but the woven part tells the story, the small cloth is the illustration

sigh.

 

hanging from the beam are 3 pieces of cloth that i'd stuck in jars with various stuff. they look like
prayer flags, as is. i always want everything to be able to be everything simultaneously. how can they
stay in the dye jars and be seen?hang as prayerflags and become cloth? what if i think less and DO more?
then there will be enough for all of it.

 

just going to put this here for a moment to see if it appears….still stitching and will put up again later…

 

maybe this? what if it is minimal?
what if this is where the lizard comes in?

have spent a chunk of this morning trying to get a pic from picassa to arrive here and it just won't. says something about security token and blog id required field must not be blank???????
oh whaaa.

you can water your self blue in the face and things do grow, but
sky rain,
just one night of it……..
elixir

big electrical storm coming. i will stitch through. but to document the point of dilemma.
photos are amazing…help clarify.
when i am actually holding this, stitching, what ifing, it is close to feeling busy to me.
but looking at the photographs, quite a different thing. where is the spark of color?
butterfly is glennis' silk with jude's magic thread antennae.
will continue through storm…: what if i add some other colored stitches in the rivulets of the kantha or
what if more butterflies? what if stitching on some long grasses, with floating beads of color?
will try all three.

stars and starshine under glennis'moon
the shocking addition of the sunflower
????

ok, velma…..

i am looking at the difference in these posts.
it's the light.
that's how it is in the desert.
some light washes things flat
other light makes deep indentations
texture
which is real?
both and all.
that's why it is so easy to get lost here.
back to Barry Lopez and Joy Harjo,
tonight we had a storm. a monsoon storm. everything has been at least a month "off", as in
late, this year or so, give or take.

the monsoon storm tonight, a month early.
my planet is disturbed.

but
the monsoon rains, if they are exactly right, bring the spadefoot toads up. these toads…you
can google them, live under ground all year, waiting.
if the rains are right and come at least two days in a row, which means there will be enough
standing water for the "ritual", they come up.
so…before i tell you what that's like, i will wait and see if the rains are the "right" rains,
deep, soaking, seeping down rains.
we'll see.