During that time

So much love that all that can be done with the overflow is to create.  It is not a matter of wanting to.  Not as an act of will, one solely must.  

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Poem Blanket

When women take embroidery and other textile arts beyond their accustomed uses; out of private, out of domestic, out of the female sphere, and make them large (like Sheila Hicks) unruly (like Louise Bourgeois) or ambitious (like the Bayeux Tapestry) it is a performative act.  

It performs gender.  It demands acknowledgment on a scale that tiny textiles do not.  

Janet Berlo

my full heart

The Egyptian concept of time as a circle, not an arrow. 

And to just stand there with the beauty, and feel cared for. 

(reading Patrick Brinkley’s All the Beauty in the World. )

Paris in February

When you touch something, you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it then connects with you in a way.  

Among the Stars

I am the white moon among the stars

Front     Back 

 

Mary Pratt

She sat beside me after her talk. 

She had refreshments with me and we talked about things.  I told her that I had four kids too.  She asked me if I was an artist and I gushed and babbled, I was so in awe then. I was 39, she was 65. I’m still in awe of this woman.  She died in 2018, age 83.  

Shibori relic

Taking out the threads from that cotton dress I dyed red when my girls were still home.  Recalling how the colour and the bloodiness of the seeping red into white enthralled me yet stopped me from doing anything further with the found dress. I’ve moved it over the years from drawer to drawer, but last night, when I came across it in a box of linens, I decided to move forward with it and use the dyed part in some new work.