 |
| new sleeve for Awakened Heart |
You have to do work that's meaningful to you, and then you have to keep on doing it. (Ann Gillen)
 |
| new sleeve for The Forever |
I try to do only what I want to do.
I try to do what feels necessary to do.
I do what I love.
 |
| view from the door of my town studio |
I got back into my town studio this month. .
 |
| The Forever on the town studio table, side b |
I was able to complete the sewing of a new sleeve for the largest of the blanket pieces, The Forever.
 |
| The Forever on town studio table, side a |
I am returning it to it's original design - a horizontal swath of marks.
click here |
| The Forever on dining table at home |
It's nearly 14 feet wide, 10 feet high. It's larger than me.
Moment to moment, day after day.
I stitch it. My body touches it.
 |
| Eternity and the kitchen rug |
The work I do takes a long time and I like that.
 |
| new sleeve for Eternity |
My work is a statement about life itself, in a way. About lived time.
Every day, we have to just go on. Waking up and getting dressed and looking at the sky and being gentle with those we live with and touching them and moving out the door and interacting with the air and greeting strangers and getting in a car and hearing terrible news and picking up the bread and turning the key and putting on and taking off our coat, zipping and unzipping, buttoning and unbuttoning and returning home and starting dinner and petting the cat and pulling the quilt up and kissing our loved ones and turning out lights.
It's energy.
 |
| a new sleeve for Eternity side two |
My work holds all that time. That energy.
 |
| My Heart and Her Arms Wrapped Round in the rocking chair |
Time is my subject and my method.
 |
| new sleeve for Noble Tenderness |
The images in this post are of some of the pieces that I'm getting ready for the Kenora, Ontario exhibition of In The Middle of the World that begins on March 30. This exhibition was shown in
late 2021 but I continue to improve some of the pieces.
It's what I do.
 |
| My awakened heart / noble tenderness : A two-sided piece. |
Time is packed into what I do
imagine not being able to do what we love...
ReplyDeleteThe way the sun moves in through the window, resting on the cloth, making shapes on the wall...the texture created under your hand...this is just so much good.
ReplyDelete