This feels so true ... even not being able to physically touch the stitches on this whole/hole cloth. And I am left wondering where the pieces have gone/will go ...
Oh my goodness, that is the amazing , breath taking, piece of work!! I am in awe, completely and utterly! Please tell me that that took about ten years to complete!
Oh my goodness Judy - this is an amazingly beautiful treasure!! I love the 'peepholes' in this wonder and what an inspired decision to add the missing pieces to the bottom and top edges. It would be wonderful to actually stand close and see the stitching and movement.
thank you for saying these things. this is a blanket found in a thrift shop, with mended areas and then I over dyed it and then I looked at it and then I made the vulva shape and I felt so vulnerable the whole time I had to cut holes xo
ah the porosity of being a woman, I want to gently touch that red velvet cross
ReplyDeleteThis feels so true ... even not being able to physically touch the stitches on this whole/hole cloth. And I am left wondering where the pieces have gone/will go ...
ReplyDeleteI did use them Liz and edited the post to show how those wool sequins were added to top and bottom edges.
DeleteThank you for that ... they are truly metaphorical, and surely each person who views the whole will read their own story into it
DeleteOh my goodness, that is the amazing , breath taking, piece of work!! I am in awe, completely and utterly! Please tell me that that took about ten years to complete!
ReplyDeleteLinda Sue, it took a lifetime to find the courage. xo
DeleteYour writing, your work with cloth and thread - it is another kind of breathing.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness Judy - this is an amazingly beautiful treasure!! I love the 'peepholes' in this wonder and what an inspired decision to add the missing pieces
ReplyDeleteto the bottom and top edges. It would be wonderful to actually stand close and see the stitching and movement.
thank you for saying these things.
Deletethis is a blanket found in a thrift shop, with mended areas
and then I over dyed it
and then I looked at it
and then I made the vulva shape
and I felt so vulnerable the whole time
I had to cut holes
xo
You bring us into your world which turns into my world too!
ReplyDeleteWhat a new circle of life!!