How to love

 The way to love someone is to lightly run your fingers over that person’s soul until you find a crack and then gently pour your love into that crack.  

Found these words in an old journal. 

Preparing the travel cloth for tonight’s plane stitching. 

Dear Lydia

 Dear Lydia

Now I’m writing a word.

I picked up the sauna brush from the post office yesterday along with the papers and the almanac. 

I shouted your praises when I tried it.  It has long bristles and such a long handle that now I don’t need to use a shovel to scrub my back anymore.  

My life is nothing like it was.  It’s always the same.  I’ve been alone for a long time.  Heikki is always out there in the bush in the winter.  

My grandmother Anna’s letter to her sister in Finland, November 27, 1959.  (google translated from the original Finn into English) 

Delightful

Yesterday was a treasure of a day.  

Everything was lovely 

He was so generous and kind to me. 

We talked a lot while driving. 

We listened to CBC. 
 

glory

Knowing above all that the earth beneath her feet was so deep and so secret that she need not fear the invasion of understanding dissolving its mystery. 

This feeling had a quality of GLORY.  

Clarice Lispector

Phenomenology

Braiding is produced by crossing three or more strands in various zig zag ways so that the warp becomes the weft and vice versa. 

Weaving uses warp and weft as distinct and separate elements.  

Braiding can also be referred to as inter-lacing or inter-twining. 

Maurice Merleau Ponty believes that the body-subject is really two-fold.  The seer can be seen, the touché can be touched and therefore, crossing and reversing takes place al the time.  

At the same time, we are seeing and sensing. 

Merleau Ponty braids self/others/world into one thick texture. 

‘ the flesh of the world ‘

 

erotic

For me, working with textile is erotic rather than analytic.

Eros rather than Logos.

I respond to materials and the sensuousness of them. 

I respond to the emotions they bring out in me.

I love making them

It is my passion.

It's a valid way to be an artist and to be a human.

Led by love and emotion and not thought.  Not so much thought.

xo

grid

What is seen as repetitive, obsessive, compulsive, in women’s art is in fact a necessity for those whose time comes in small squares.  

Lucy Lippard

Also, there is a symbol of renewal of life in the use of discarded materials.      L.L.