a woman’s life

 Being an artist means incessantly healing one’s own wounds and simultaneously opening them again in the process. 

Annette Messager

interior language

The ancestors created human beings and gave them language, law and culture.  

The ancestors gave their spiritual essence to the land itself. 

In search of more time

76 dots started, most finished.

67 not even started.  

About those circles that I am stitching around the dots in the large red piece.  I think I have to leave it for now.  

Dreamland

The first book of poetry published in Canada was entitled Dreamland.  1968  Charles Mair.    92 x 92 inches 

dream work

Woke up with the idea to make large wedges in the lower half and all the dots made more of with cotton embroidery floss. 

a positive act

 No work is completely knowable.

We can't reach a precise understanding of the artist's intent.

Even in despair, the artist acts positively.

To produce an object that is intended to last implies a belief in the continued existence of a society of people able to respond.

Nathan Knobler  The Visual Dialogue

And it’s so beautiful

 Your book makes a distinction between ‘sitting’ and ‘posing’ and the two verbs describe the same thing in principle, but they don’t.  And I have the feeling that most writers of memoirs are going into their past, and they are posing as themselves at an earlier point in their lives and you are sitting for yourself, in the present, and that’s what gives the writing this strange quality.  It has a strange quality to it.  It’s hard to describe - I can’t.  But you are definitely sitting for your self. 

Judith Thurman conversing with Celia Paul in the beautiful interview about Celia Paul’s book, Self Portrait.