Spirit Cloth

Blur-ity

Butterfly Self

Reconsidering Wings, Reach.

 

I step back for a moment. 2013. Spirit Cloth Diaries.

Here I was diagramming thought.  And delving into Butterfly Self.  The Basket self holds many selves.

I am revisiting them.  Basket Self evolved to hold them.  These often times Loose Selves. To create a safe place for them to get to know each other. To reassure each other.  To hide.  Become. To prepare for more Small Journeys.

 

I've included the audio that  accompanied this moment.

Because these things belong together.

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The Diary Series. There were several.  They have not been  released as part of Feel Free.  They were very personal and expansive in terms of Considering.  As I  go back, I am aware of the deep content there.  Much of the technique and design evolution there can be indexed. Useful to my efforts to expand  my open teaching project.  But I look at the units as a whole.  How wonderful it is to have them like that.  To revisit days as they went. Mostly though, so many ideas that might be expanded upon.  We are limitless.

I have a big job in front of me. To contain all of this in a useful way.

I think there are 2 main categories.  One being Technique. The other being Creative Thought, Design.

How might they feed each other?  How might I be able We be able to encourage that?

I've made a some notes to self this morning.  About reach.  How I envision that.  How big it can become. But how keeping things within reach is also part of making things useful.  Considering all of  this before getting too far and having regrets.  Knowing the limits of effectiveness.  Thank you all for your patience through this process.  I have to take my time.

I will not release the Diaries  as a unit for free.  I will offer them up against donations, all in good time.

As usual, I am REconsidering many things.  I have one question now.  If you have donated already to this effort, and would like to be on the  Feel Free Community listing... might you send me a note by email?  With your name (or how you want to be listed), a note ( anything, even a bit about your self or thoughts, feedback) if you want to publicly say something, and a link to whatever online presence you might want to make known, if you have one. Thank you. 

This project has taken on new meaning in these sad days of small thinking and self serving endeavor. 

Here's to Education without Borders.

 

 

B

 B is for Basket.

Basket is Big in my personal universe.  Basket is me.  The symbol for me.  To me.  Basket Self.  Self as a woven vessel. Built from the center.

I am back to the index for FEEL FREE.  I'll have a lot of questions for you. Your answers will help me move forward.

B is also for Butterfly.  Which is often filed under W for Wings. I think it can be both.

Last night I had a pen in my hand. You never know  what will happen if there is no paper nearby.  I am often asked if I am afraid of ruining a piece when I draw directly on it with no plan.  No. Why?  Because.

I remember that not being a good enough answer.  Teachers saying that. Because?  That's not an answer. Because what?

B is also for Because.   Because.  It's still good enough. It is how it might happen.  Just going.

Is Because good enough for you?  Or do you worry about it more?

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The space that offers going

 

 Today is Feather Friday.

And I will be in that space in between, where things  will grow wings, like they sometimes do in my dreams.  Flying gives you another perspective.

 

All day.

With a little time out to do laundry.

Later.....

The spirit of suspended animation

Still in process.  Suspended. Renamed.  Has it been a year already?

And now I see a basket opportunity. A basket that might hold/ keep itself.

Collision

I am focused on one corner of this piece...  a place where tradition  has collided with  some outside force.   A newness.    It is a meeting place that helps define  both  parts  in terms of  change, redefinition.  I think about this a lot.   How things seem to collide yet actually move though one another.   Occupying the same space. It has occurred to me lately that  redefinition might be a lot less about  identifying difference and a lot  more about recognizing and absorbing the consciousness of oneness.

 I am on my way back home. 

Coming together

This post follows the making of  a special story cloth. You can read more about the Magic Feather Project  by clicking the tab in the top menu bar.  Or by using the category for HOME , the link to the making of this cloth, in the sidebar or under the post.

There is truly significance for me,  for this project, in the bringing of all these pieces together.  The challenge  of making one piece, one peace, from the diversity in approach, highlighting the One-ness in intention.  And so blending  is  my focus.  But still honoring the individual  creativity of the maker.  

 This video was made during Spirit Cloth Diaries,  when I was planning the wings and the blending process....

 

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There is such a journey ahead of me still.  UN-stitching the edges,  reweaving them into a web  with a bit of  my own techniques touching them all.  And another layer of feathers  to add in between things.  Weaving them in as well I think, where I can.    There are still so many feathers  here.

I once imagined,  that all these little feathers, might fly  in and  touch one another in some special way, with my help. And through some sort of sympathetic evolution,  would transform into some new vision   that might change the way we see one another.  Create a new sense of Home  for those among us that need shelter from the storm.

I am sorry that many folks are having problems commenting. It is a Typepad issue and I cannot fix it.  Maybe just an opportunity for some quiet time :-)

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.