If the path before you is clear,
you are probably on
someone else's.
-Carl Jung
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No time for gardening. But then, this is gardening for now.
We cleared. Worked hard to maximize a bit of lawn (really not just grass) space and clear the hill.
Nothing planted. Still so much to eat. Wild salad and berries at forest's edge.
Some perennial herbs along the rock ridge.
Keeping growth low around the house minimizes ticks and mosquitoes.
With timing so unsettled and road trips pending, this will work just fine.
I offer you simply green as I stitch a few things together in my mind.
Sanity # ?
I have lost count.
But I haven't lost track.
This is one of my favorite composition styles.
The Sanity Effect. A math. There is a center, nine, the square, a sense of expansion. And always another box. A challenge yet a point of reference.
The sanity series is based on a simple quilt math of 1-2-3 (inches). The piece is now 15" square.
A little bit about quilt math here. Until I move it to Feel Free.
Composition is so much about point of reference. Composition is a kind of story in itself. Composition will need it's own page over there.
Late last night I was calling this Off the Wall, today I am back to Out of the Blue. If I keep taking these off the wall and letting them expand, there will be no space left between them when they are pinned back up and they all might become one. A thought. Just caught. In the spirit of thinking.
Stitch might be a symbol for Going. But not Just Going.
If thought is a thread, then stitch might make it into something useful.
Stitch holds intention. Thought.
I pulled this one (from back here already) off the wall. Started stitching. Is that what will happen?
Time is flying. Today I am reconsidering Freedom.
And Sanity, as perspective. Context.
I'm looking at this one.
And of course this.
On paper before cloth. Which makes me love that drawing up top even more.
And the square me is becoming a circle. I don't expect you to understand. I'm starting to be ok with that.
A Magic Feather Cloth Story.
The cloth lives and gives through the thoughts of all who cared to imagine healing. And now through those who know it.
Way back in 2011(oh my how time flies) I said to myself...
one little thing can bring focus to chaos. bring the present into the past or the other way around. making things whole. connecting the dots has more than one dimension.
This is Sophia, working with Our Cloth(s).
"both Hazel and Jude helped me to link my thinking with my dance, so I understand at the same time I don't. My body cannot dance if I don't think as well.. everyone in the dance world says get out of your head. but I tell them you need both. So I now get to pull through Jude’s ideas …and there are so many in this Magic Feather Cloth that even if I need to come back when I am forty, there will still be room for me entering the thought process and learning….”
Her words brought me back. Once upon a time, when I was a bit lost,so lost actually. My Dad pulled me aside and said. "jude...use your head..."
I could say so much here, about thought, thought catching, creativity, and sharing what moves through you with conscious intention vs mindlessness. Spirit. But I've said so much already.
Thank you then to Sophia for her gift here. For saying. Dancing. Letting us in.
I captured these photos from some videos that Wendy sent. I could not convert them to full screen format, but here is Sophia in Motion...