path work

First I have to fail.
Get lost
Get bound up in what I think is right
When it fails I feel trapped,
stuck.

I cut through the tangle
to make an opening for my heart
to receive the light and air.

The whole is the most important thing

red thread

my wall is my journal page

do not worry

 

 

You must recognize what you have already seen
to get used to it, to use it as best you can
do not fear what you find new
do not underestimate it but
do not over estimate it either.  LB

plunge in and go slow

 

my quilting is not political
it is aware

against fear

making objects yields up the eternal power of art in the face of our transient life

a Hegel idea

white float

 

 

horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep

verticality is an attempt to escape

hanging and floating are states of ambivalence and doubt

L.B.  

choosing a binding

middle photo - the grey green?
bottom photo - the hand dyed taffeta?

I am going with the grey green.

Louise Bourgeois was compelled to remember everything in order to hold onto her past, and at the same time she wants to forget the past in order to live in the present.  She wrote pages and pages of psychoanalytic writings, discovered after her death.

Return of the Repressed edited by Philip Laratt Smith

le coeur

 

"Le Coeur a ses raisons quqe la raison ne connait pas

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not "

Louise Bourgeois quoting Pascal

self love

We can not give our children what we do not have.
Brene Brown

white cross

 

 

circles in squares

 

cloth, the body's first architecture,

is a hand that always touches

from Ann Hamilton commonplace

poetic

 

 

There is meaning in the inter relationship of parts as well as in their particular contexts.

fragilitiy and courage

so many of these materials are in thrift shops and bottom drawers
so many of the original owners are dead or very old
these remain as brave markers

carrying tiger to mountain

 

 

It's as if I am just now surfacing back into some kind of normal, but am not there yet.
I have so much tidying to do.  I am mailing off parcels - just to clear my space again after an entire summer gone to my leg.

Since May 2 - all through June, July, August, September and now October - 6 months of only able to think about my sore leg.

Coming up for air.
Looking around.
Going slow.

Carrying tiger to mountain.