.....i am starting slowly. last year's fever was about frenzy. momentum. screaming a cloth into existence with a sharp awareness of intent. this year's coma is about reversing that. i have realized that i need to create a more empty space in my head to work... so i thought i would shake up my normal system of working. create some temporary confusion. make myself dizzy so i would have to stop to start again. i am over-dyeing most everything i have starting with thread. and since i have everything organized by color i am going to undo that. i hope to end up with a palette that has colors i have no names for and a stash that is just randomly aglow... something more instinctive without obvious order. my own order. with out the anguish of finding things.
i dip dyed over some cheap chinese variagated embroidery floss. little sections of the skeins a bit at a time in many different colors. its a rainbow like no other i've seen before. this has been a comfortable starting ceremony.