I love this time of year, the colours and the gentle light
My husband makes piles of wood around our property
I've been working on this three-blanket-wide piece in my town studio, but I brought it home last month
It was going so slowly there. Now I work on in the evenings during our TV time.
The piece is inspired by the grandeur of the cambrian shield and the sliced-open immense rocks that line the northern highways that we drive through. Time is made visible in those rock cuts.
I'm covering the three blankets with a horizontal strata of plant-dyed fabrics, stitched with wool yarns.
The work is about touch and vulnerability and eternity.
The reverse side is also beautiful I think.
Time is a material. I add my loving pokes and pets and strokes and pulls and mends. The fabric becomes energized, powerful.
"The clock indicates the moment - but what does eternity indicate? " Walt Whitman
Beautiful Judy.The plant dyed fabrics you are using certainly do represent the rock cuts perfectly. I have always loved the beauty in woodpiles. They represent order out of chaos to me.
ReplyDeletestunning, I would like to touch the stitching! To experience what you do each time you touch it
ReplyDeleteI know those rocks. And your strata are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSo amazing on its own, since I don't know these rocks :) But, I'd sure love to see 'em! I love the texture that is your work and that you put those logs to bed! Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteLove that you said I put the logs to bed. Love it xx
DeleteOh i so wish i could touch this............
ReplyDeleteI look and look and breathe. Such quiet beauty. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful blanket and a lovely series of photos. So elegaic
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