or a window

 I want my work to be like a mirror 

where people become connected to self 

or a window 

or a door

Stare

Stare

It is the way to educate your eye.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Die knowing something.

You are not here long.

Walker Evans

for the Cayley room

 It started with Yin Yin.  

A quilt show that has a connecting theme - that of working from the inside, from the back - and that there is no real front/back to any of these pieces.  

and the trees kiss in the dusk

 Lorca

grassy field

 my work

the archetypes

the neutral colours 

apples

What inspired me about Marcus Aurelius was the sense of speaking the truth.  Writing the truth because you have no expectation of an audience.  That's how I was trying to write this book.

There's nothing self-indulgent about the way he discusses himself.  He's almost seeing himself entirely from the outside as a stranger would trying to understand what he is capable of, what he is not capable of and how he reacts in various situations.    

Zadie Smith speaking to Eleonar Wachtel about her new book of essays  (Intimations) written during the pandemic and how Aurelius' book, Meditations, inspired her.

spontaneous slow art

I've started making with reckless abandon
Picking up whatever cloth is nearest and turning it into a piece.
Creating something that I had NO plan to create even 6 hours before.
Not even 3 hours.   Not even 20 minutes.
As spontaneous as is possible in the slow method of sewn art.
my journal entry today