Timeless

 I am making marks with a needle and thread.

Each mark, each stitch is unique.
Each mark a small texture.
Each mark a reminder of my hand's caress.

Not only do the marks express this gentle touch, they also carry the 4th dimension of time.

It takes months to put all these stitches into my cloths.
Months of lived experience.

Just consider what happens during that amount of time.
The daily waking up and going back to sleep
the events of the world and of personal life story.

It's awesome.
It causes wonder.

recall the past
leap into the future
think about how brief our time is to be alive
of what we might accomplish

our precious time
Think about all of these things at the same time

I want these individual one at a time marks to look as if they've always been there.

I want them to be timeless. 

needle at sea bottom

illlustration from in the wilds by nigel peake

energy cloth, folded , the back

white stork spreads wings

wedding cloth, draped

needle at sea bottom

robert rauschenberg combine detail, flare chute

reach up to pat horse

robert rauschenberg  untitled 1955, combine painting

carry tiger to mountain

memory of my IV pump, August

go back to ward off monkey

 grasp birds tail

robert rauschenberg combine detail, sock

slanting flying

I started to learn and practice Tai Chi. last month.  The texts in this post are memory aids for this moving meditation.  There are 108 moves.

I am fascinated by the combination of mind and body that is inherent within tai chi.
I discover them as if they are new, but they have been around for years and years.

The images in this post are of things I do not own yet remember deeply.

"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world"
Robert Rauschenberg  1925 - 2008