when i started this long cloth i was in a different place. this past year held a big scare for us. the details are not that important. it was just scary. i got stuck there for a while and i made this piece to express the timelessness that i experienced. i was trapped somewhere very unfamiliar.and there was no end, no way out.
the idea for the long cloth came from a protracted sense of time. a time line representing an unfamiliar landscape or an endless day. a sense of the real-ness of shadow, the un-real-ness of order, the lack of orientation. tunnel vision.
i included the many eyes that appeared and seemed to be staring back at me. at first i felt them as a threat. but i realized they were all my eyes, and i needed to use them to get outside myself, to see things from a distance. to make fear smaller and easier to handle. a dot in a familiar landscape
this piece took a million years to stitch. i mended the open edge of the coming storm with fragments of my husband's old shirt and braided the tangled old fringe and now it is done. it can change shape, it can be rolled up and put away keeping secrets safe and then unrolled and remembered. and shared. it is a story, and nowhere as long as first expected. looking back...just another small journey.
