Monday, March 18, 2024

the letter to Lydia


 The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink.  And in drinking understand themselves.  Federico Garcia Lorca 

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Shapes and marks


A you find only the shape you already are but what if you have forgotten that or discover that you have never known.  

Margaret Atwood. (Looking in a mirror, the Journals of Susannah Moodie) 
 

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Beautiful Soul


 If we are going to say anything, we must say it wrong.  We will offend and hurt others.  On the internet this can be exhausting.  I must still get the work out, get the words out, get the stitches into the cloth.  

Remember the Beautiful Soul.  The dream of the beautiful soul brought into the real world that can carry us forward.  

All we have is our best idea.  

Sarah Gagnon. Pelican Quilts 

Thursday, February 8, 2024

In a mysterious wilderness

 


Travel cloth on the left.  Un-done bundle wrap on the right.   

We are in a mysterious wilderness outside the village of the ordinary.  Cy Twombly

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Monday, January 22, 2024

Sky as female

 


Things pass into and out of the female body and women have to learn about and own this traffic as personal and continuous.  It's hard to keep pace, it's exulting, it's unknowable, we fall behind in the accounting. 
At heart, our relationship to time is a slave relationship. 

Interesting ideas from Rachel Cusk's essay about Louise Bourgeois' textile works in the Woven Child.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Two poems


"I like beautiful things that have a use."  said Louise Gluck (winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for literature) when asked why she liked ceramics.