Spirit Cloth

Just another Square of Wear

 

More scraps of Self

 

Honored.

 

In the process of lessening,  I have tried to make things useful  if I could.  Before discarding them. Or giving them away.   And instead of just saving them somewhere out of view.  Formalizing  scraps of self  into works in cloth   changes them from wants to needs in a way.  At least temporarily  enhancing my vision. Like  creating Windows to the past.  And looking through them  to learn from them.   Having them right there as reminders.  In full view.  In the context of today.  So many stories to tell myself here. 

Continued here...

Rethinking  the Threadcrumbs concept.

Being there

Continued from here.

This earth beast  gets around.

The color of Monday

I have been at Mom's for a few days.  This will be a schedule for  a few weeks  as my brother takes care of some business.   As the month winds down,  I am focused again on simplifying.  Life has become overly complicated.  A never ending battle to sort though what is important.   I have cut Facebook out of the picture.  My page is still there but I will not really be posting  anything.  I want to be  less thin.  I will  let the cloth be that instead.   Facebook has broad reach, it helped me  make new friends.  And maybe it tempts me with more attention.  But I have to stay here now.  Be who I am where I am.   One home on the internet is enough,  when I have to be more place at once in real life.  I suppose real friends might follow wherever you go.  We'll see.  Most of the folks I consider close come here anyway. 

Focusing on White at Diaries has helped me.   Not so much as a color but as  quiet place to consider.  Consider with others.  Some great work going on over there.  Some great  struggling as well.   I hope to share some "white work"  from the series as time goes on. 

Today I dipped some thread in a dormant vat , the weather has warmed up and  lo and behold, there was still some blue.   In some new refreshed way, I am ready to  focus on color now.  Segment two of Diaries.  But White will linger. I know.  

Mom is better. But not well.  Never will be really.  I face that  with renewed  clarity.  Trying.  Being right there  makes that unavoidable.  Everything we pass though  seems to rub off.  

Coming together

This post follows the making of  a special story cloth. You can read more about the Magic Feather Project  by clicking the tab in the top menu bar.  Or by using the category for HOME , the link to the making of this cloth, in the sidebar or under the post.

There is truly significance for me,  for this project, in the bringing of all these pieces together.  The challenge  of making one piece, one peace, from the diversity in approach, highlighting the One-ness in intention.  And so blending  is  my focus.  But still honoring the individual  creativity of the maker.  

 This video was made during Spirit Cloth Diaries,  when I was planning the wings and the blending process....

 

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There is such a journey ahead of me still.  UN-stitching the edges,  reweaving them into a web  with a bit of  my own techniques touching them all.  And another layer of feathers  to add in between things.  Weaving them in as well I think, where I can.    There are still so many feathers  here.

I once imagined,  that all these little feathers, might fly  in and  touch one another in some special way, with my help. And through some sort of sympathetic evolution,  would transform into some new vision   that might change the way we see one another.  Create a new sense of Home  for those among us that need shelter from the storm.

I am sorry that many folks are having problems commenting. It is a Typepad issue and I cannot fix it.  Maybe just an opportunity for some quiet time :-)

The eye escapes coma