prayer flag

 

My bone is healing - it's healed actually -
new bone has formed, even over the screws.
We saw the x-ray.
The entire day yesterday was spent in the car going to and from doctor.
We left at 9 am, home 10 pm.
Ned went straight to bed - me too, but I got up to clean the studio.

I arranged the red edged hankies into a cross
for a prayer flag

begin from the edge

 

 

Intricate as some of these designs are, it must be remembered that none of them are drawn on the cloth.  The first row of running stitches acts as the guiding line for the rest of the border.  The sure eye of the needlewoman and her steady hand create these traditional border patterns in the kanthas.

Shostir Chino.  Outline the motif with stitch, and then use the bending stitch (the kaitya) around the motif.  Each stitch moves slightly forward.  There is an optical illusion, it appears to move before our eyes.  It feels like a moving wheel.

Niaz Zaman

large emptiness, small marks

 

when I walk I see

 

In my room the world is beyond my understanding

But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.

Wallace Stevens

time passes

a fine connection to the past
a fine connection to the life
memory
a poetic sense
time intensive activity
sewing
time capsule

the stitcher is focused
sewing as an activity opposes acceleration
tender remembering
the act of it
time passes
time has passed
but more slowly because of this way of marking it

slow trickling of time
subjective perception
give recollection space