what is essential is invisible to the eye

 

It is necessary to be uncompromising.  You have to be, otherwise it’s crap you do.  I don’t want to. I don’t need to.  

Robert Frank 

in the middle of the world

 She carries us , swaddled to her breast, into a world that awaits our arrival.  

Walter Mosley wrote this about Toni Morrison 

integrity, honesty, authenticity

I don't consciously decide that I've got to think up a new idea.  The ideas are percolating.  What I have to do is settle on an idea.    Micah Lexier

heart of hearts

 

Dear Heart
What do you want?
Do you want to be loved?  Touched?  Cared for?  Of course.
Do you want to be more independent?  stronger?  Braver?  Yes.
Which do you want more?

(journal entry from May 10)

old material, new way

side a

side b

wool has longevity as a natural fibre
wool blankets tend to serve generations of people
our experiences are imprinted on their fleece
stains, worn bindings, mended areas

Marie Watt

a cross in a circle in a square

The square means integration of the self.
The circle means that too.
So the circle in the square is really integration of self.
Lenore Tawney

mixing memory and desire

my stitched, touched, abstract art allows me to put love into it,
personal meditations into it,
and my viewer is able to take out what he or she needs
right then at the moment of looking
of thinking and responding with their own ideas
or memories and dreams mixed
or emotions
journal entry april 1

continuing on

 

 

love, love, love
it was the core of my life,
from which, of course,
comes the word for the heart.

Mary Oliver

cross in circle in square

"Be alone.
Take every opportunity  to be alone."
Agnes Martin

all metaphor and beauty

 

the effect of sheer
vulnerability

moving back

Maybe we are all in the process of moving back towards the making of cloth.

(from essay about Dorothy Caldwell's work entitled Surveying the Land: Dorothy Caldwell's Field Notes 1996      Caroline Langill

reverse side - more drawing

 

 

Keep prying away at the body to see if the emotions are located in a specific spot.

Amy Hempel

drawing

my notebooks are where I think