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Thin Linen.
You almost need two layers to see it. I could spend a lifetime looking at the world through this cloth.
Yes.
This cloth will have a story unfolding. Right now it is up my sleeve.
Speaking of thinness...
There seems to be a very thin line that separates us. No match for the tendency for hearts to pull together over time. This gives me hope.
Just black beans on linen gauze. wrapped between two layers of cloth on a tin can. Copper pot with an old sludge of onion skins and oak twigs. I was thinking if I had less soaking water and more beans I would get a darker blue when it dawned on me what if I just used the beans directly on the cloth. The cold soak didn't do much ( probably didn't wait long enough) but the hot soak, being that I actually needed to build a fire in the studio last night, it worked. Fast. One hour in the pot. Left to cure overnight. Color is deep, dark. blue dots. For now anyway. That was fun. Good. I was in a really bad mood. These were random. Maybe some arranging is in order.
Beans are often tied in cloth to create resist. Maybe we can redefine that.
I'm not sure I have said a lot about this cloth, although it has been in process for quite a while. I stitch on it once in a while. I did a little more. Maybe for Earth day. It uses a lot of the browns I dyed last year. It has the feel of earth to me. Some kind of natural order. With a little bit of the unexpected.
I think I will leave most of the empty space.
Give the earth a rest.
I need to be away for a few days. With Mom. I have my sidewalk cloth , a little something that formed over at Diaries. A new path I seem to be on. To honor the time-worn ones.
I am looking forward. And back. Hanging out in between. Funny how that place between the two is always a new place.
See you later...
If the path before you is clear,
you are probably on
someone else's.
-Carl Jung
