Hot has arrived. and the swamp cooler isn't wanting to work so the computer which is i guess a cousin of the swamp cooler is making that odd buzzing sound it does just before it just goes blank and shuts down. this limits my time here to early hours.
i am still very much content withing the Sun Moon and Stars Whispering. i have not had enough yet of watching and listening, thinking, imagining. so still being so much there, i wander in to the possibilities of Whispering Magic. A Large Cloth. one that might take forever. i like the image of that...me, sitting different places, different times, ... adding something, mending something else.
one of the thoughts that has come is that there is a consistency of a ground color of Jude's Magic. Indigo.
beautiful and magnificant Indigo.
but i don't have so much Indigo...only small pieces. so what will i use as the consistent cloth that lies itself down to receive all that will come? what i DO have is a LOT of muslin, all kinds and so while i am thinking about all this, i began stitching together some 9 patches of tea dyed. the intense sensual pleasure for me of stitching muslin is a good sign. and then, on a whim, i took one out and put it in the cast iron pot with onion skins. after a day/night/day, it was a deep and interesting greenish color. into the copper pot...all of it; cloth, sludge. another day night a different shade. but i'm thinking, black. how can i make black. the little bottle of ColorHue from Glennis' class so long ago. float the greenish 9 patch, swish, float and here we have it
the dark one. the color isn't quite true. but i like it. a lot. the piece to the right is a tea dye that i just floated in the left over ColorHue water. a lighter variation and i like that a lot too. the one at the bottom is a piece of linen/cotton that took the very last of the dye and is beautiful sky cloth with clouds. i think i can repeat this dye process enough to create a good amount of muslin to begin this Large Cloth. and then, i found all the most loved pieces that i have learned with since the beginning of It All....put them together with this dyed muslin and yes.
it feels good.
In Sun Moon and Stars, Jude's latest post is about Theme. how will i think about this??? especially in terms of the beginning of this cloth? but then, in general too. and i realize that it's already there, has always been, really. when i was i think 4 years old, my mother took me to the Museum of Natural History in Detroit. i would have to be 4 because we moved from Detroit when i was 5. i saw something there that became the leit motif of Me and how i see myself in this life. over time i have tried to replicate what i saw in different ways, but there is a consistent bottom line, a Humm that has remained the same. it's the image of Diorama, the small illuminated still moment of something happening. small doings in the lives of human beings within the larger context of humanity as a whole. within the larger context of their Place on the planet. within the larger context of Sun Moon and Stars. within the larger still context of the Universe. and too, within the small personal context of self. in this case, one woman's life.
so...i have gotten to some place with the cloth making. i feel a shift. i learned things i don't know really from making the Daughter Cloth. and as i continue now, with small cloths and with the beginning of Whispering Magic it's the image of the Diorama that i think of as Theme.
