Variations on prayers

 When an artist is making a work, I’m not sure how much they can actually think about the audience.  The degree of communication is always a dubious question.  I try to pay attention to the integrity of the work and worry about translation later.  The most successful work I’ve done is where it is completely open to interpretation.  It doesn’t dictate one way of making.  Sherin Neshat 

Perivale work

A small show about circles and red thread and new growth and mothering and care for the planet.  The quilt for Baby Earth with four watercolours with stitching. 

Mermaid or Princess

 

The ambiguity goes beyond a simple combining of opposites and instead engages the viewer in an experience of slipping from one association to another in an unrelated and unsolvable process of interpretation.

Ralph Rugoff about Louise Bourgeois’ late textile works in the exhibition, The Woven Child.

Trying to make sense of nonsense

 70 inches square instead of 80 because I don’t want to have to go up and down on the stool.  

Only as high and as wide as I can reach.  My body as measure. 

Look at the sky

My creativity will not stop, even when my spirit is anxious and sad, my interior huge-ness will not give up and continues to make hopeful declarations about not giving up. 

streaming

May what I do flow from me like a river.

The way it is with children.

Then in the swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning,

I will sing you as no one ever has, 

Streaming through widening channels into the open sea.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Book of Hours

I could see everything

Freed from deadlines, I saw that I can go somewhere deeper if I give myself enough time to let my mind catch up with my hands - and not push the work too hard. 

I followed the work slowly.  Hoping. Having faith that it would lead to something more true than I could have conceived of quickly.  

Margaux Williamson