interior and exterior
dark and light
damaged in some way
torn ripped collapsed
to be whole one must be wounded
the physical gestures of my arms and hands
the way the viewer needs to move back and forth to experience it
the small repetitive piercings of the needle
ripping
pinning, touching, holding
stepping back from
looking at
feeling, remembering
and cloth is like the body
Phenomenology is the lived experience of the world for both maker and viewer.
literally catch the corner of our eye
this is a level of abstraction that you need to slow down for
I'm building on work I started years ago
slow down to see it
yearn to touch it
monumental scale
phsyical repetitive activity
It is our senses and deep memories that connect us to our emotions,
(a post about my new work for exhibition)
this deep response to the wounding, mending into a sense of wholeness with words and images reflecting,sharing, you are such a bright light
ReplyDeleteyour words, your images, the stories..all deeply touching the very core of my being. You are a master of communicating a look at where we all walk in the world today. Thank you for this gift.
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Illuminating...one has to slow down to read and see. Then slower still, imagining the process over years and every gesture, every stitch, and the passage of light from day to night over countless revolutions of suns and moons. I remember when it ws a path that traversed the landscape. Oh, to walk barefoot along that path!
ReplyDeleteThe piece that I am desconstructing in most of the photos in this post is called Cloud of Time - a stitched 'path' that held 365 days that I completed in 2014. Photos of it can be seen in my New Work blog, linked to this one under my portrait. More like a calander than a journal, it holds one year of time. Each day is represented by an entire skein of embroidery floss. Just a container. Just an attempt to show something invisible - time.
ReplyDeleteI am currently re-configuring it into a large 9-foot square of stitch - a cloud of time that I hope ill be easier to exhibit. I believe that it will also look more like a cloud.
The 220 foot long stitched journal that I named Not TO Kno But To Go On - is still in a crate. NO plans to re-construct it, I would like to show it again.
just to explain x
thank you. i realize that makers like you, judy, are the people i continually thank. you open my eyes, prompt me to think and to see. thank you.
ReplyDeleteyou have such depth, i fall in.
ReplyDeleteThank you once again. Your work is so beautiful and your words feel like they accompany it so well.
ReplyDeleteThank you Judy. I'm revisiting old work and your approach of re-working old pieces is so encouraging.
ReplyDeleteSometimes that's all i have. The stitch and the cloth.
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