even though i finished the blue heart, in my mind i kept going. i couldn't sleep last night so i sat for a while noticing the small blue quilting stitches and how even though faint, they have importance as they are sort of dissolving the blueness. they have held this heart in motion. one might imagine that if one waited long enough the color would change. i also like the velvet because you see a different color depending on the angle of view. one might even imagine it was red from one side. would that destroy my story?
i liked very much the comments made by eva and sandra yesterday. isn't color something so difficult to understand sometimes? it is more of an idea to me since we really do not know what another actually "sees." very curious. how we learn to use color is really quite limiting if we follow the rules. it is a preset manual of common symbolic practice. i understand the use of common language but how does one free oneself to think without that ? can we use color freely? are we ever free from intention which in its own way becomes manipulative? am i asking stupid questions?
i also picked up the heart sampler again... this piece that started this whole thing. i have not linked backward on this one because i just want to look at this whole thing with new eyes. the heart as a symbol is just like the color red. i have ideas in my head of what it is. i don't know how to escape that. or if i need to. but i still want to.
...i have this one that i started last week. and i wonder where it is going. i picked red without even thinking. or i thought i did.