Spirit Cloth

Layers of motion

Today just looking at the scale, the reach,  the full spectrum, the spin.  And planning some refinement to keep the flight path open.  Can you see it?  The space .  The ring of vision .  Through.

That space should always be clear.

Just to backtrack a bit

So I did work a bit on this cloth in the background, sharing some of the progress over at Spirit Cloth Diaries.... I wanted to share a post here with those who were not in that class,  and now that I am dedicating this place to the first  Magic Feather Cloth I am calling HOME. (there is a category for it here if you want to look back further).  I am planning to put all this fragmented documentary together  in a format from start to finish, but things got a bit jumbled up over this long hard winter.

So just to look back....

In October, ( right about when i posted here) I put it up on the wall. And I did a bit of talking...

 

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And then  a little bit more.

 

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As mentioned in the video.... that night, I stitched some thread beads. To define the rotation of dark and light in the big X.  I will be adding a lot of these as a filler. Even more than I did on the Magic Cloth.  When I lifted the heart, in the lamplight, the beaded wings, again amazed me.

Because of the tactile quality,  I think some sort of "braille" butterflies will be great in some of the open space.

Coming home

OK. Here I go again.  Spirits High.  All day  (and all night maybe)  I will work to get the wingspan complete.  Ready to fly.    Things have settled into place.  Magic Feather cloth here.  What-iffing at Diaries.  Food growing in the garden.  Mom  stabilized in her own home.  Mobile devices in place  for The Road Trip this summer.   It's OK.   All of it.  How it all might happen  together.   

Cloth on a sunny day

 

The winged shirt  is still in process

leftover from a workshop.

I  like it as a curtain.

I am simply exhausted from  being outside prepping the soil for planting tomorrow.  It was a very sunny day.  The windows were open for the first time since autumn. 

self portrait in March

 

 

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                                                           first study for the Wings of Vision

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