Nine works so well for framing.
Because it has a center.
This is the format I have used for a lot of the small pieces in the Sanity Series. In fact anything I put in this format immediately brings clarity of a sort.
It's like a cloth framing exercise. A Mat.
How striking this one looks now. Yet it redefines the Gallery Thing in a way, doesn't it? In the context of framing...softer, do you like it? I'm working toward a showing.
Sanity
is probably somewhere in between.
I guess I have spent a lot of time trying just to define sanity for myself. In order to make the pieces in this series fit together like a puzzle. The puzzle being me. I think today I have arrived at one more place that brings clarity to the journey. I said to myself, you have to believe in something, I narrowed it down to I believe in thought.
I've been low about nothing specific. Down. For at least a day. That's about how long it lasts. Lucky for me? Not really. Dad once said to me that depression is a faulty memory. Work on that, he said. Remember. Be skillful in remembering. There was always a time before the joy was lost.
I call this small study Sanity Grows.
I think it could be a series. Suddenly.
Because that is how it is going. How it might happen.
I try to focus. Then, suddenly, I wander off.
Like the weather here in April. It became so warm, like summer, so quickly. Then just as quickly, suddenly, POOF!, it's a bit more like early spring again.
Bits of me seem to be scattered everywhere.
I stitched a few together without worrying about why. And this time just enough stitch to hold the thought together.
Suddenly a Butterfly
April will be like this. The weather. And Me. Too many little things suddenly need to be addressed. I'll try to make the best of it. Them.
Another wish formed. Fireside, even though there was no fire. I've been stitching on the squares I talked about here.
The little spaced out nine in the center is another little symbol that developed a while back. A sense of order. I think I might be able to radiate outward and still hold that sense.