One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. --Helen Keller This is a detail from one of the 40 panels of the work Dancing Ground. About Call / Response: Quote-a-day calendars infuse my day with an unpredicted perspective. This year I will post weekly words of another person and my … Continue reading Call /Respond Week 12
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Call / Respond week 11
Motto I play it cool And dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto, As I live and learn is: Dig and be Dug In return. --Langston Hughes I created this collage of musicians as an illustration of this Langston Hughes' poem. It is still on display in the studio as fresh … Continue reading Call / Respond week 11
Call / respond Week 10
A very great vision is needed and the person who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. --Crazy Horse I found the words from Crazy Horse one day this past winter. The art piece, Sequestered, was begun a decade ago after a really good study about time … Continue reading Call / respond Week 10
Call / Respond Week 9
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others, — Albert Camus Joseph in The Well and the Camus quotation have existed in my repertoire for years but were just put together … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 9
Call / Respond Week 8
I find ecstasy in life—the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson A Bit of Sass is part of a 40 panel series based on the proverb, "There must be room for all on the dancing ground." I created the series the beginning during the first half of 2022, using materials on hand … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 8
Call / Response Week 7
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. Katherine Anne Porter Heart's Desire began as fun, putting together tumbler patches in a neutral colorway. After I had layered it with batting and backing and quilted through the layers, I added tucks to the bottom of the hanging. The copper … Continue reading Call / Response Week 7
Call / Respond Week 6
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. —Annie Dill Dance at Midnight is an early work, completed long before I found this quote. I chose it as an illustration … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 6
Call / Respond Week 5
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. —Dolly Parton Find out who you are and do it on purpose. -- Dolly Parton Satisfaction, the fabric art above, first appeared with this quotation as a post during the Year of Listening. I have used the pattern of 4 squares, a circle, and a … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 5
Wes and Will: More Good Questions
On good weather school days, my father Wes often managed to be in the farmyard when the school bus pulled in to drop off the three of us kids. We enjoyed seeing him there. But as we made our way off the bus, we prepared for the certainty of him asking, “What did you learn … Continue reading Wes and Will: More Good Questions
Call / Respond Week 4
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. --Ursala LeQuin This diminutive piece (3.5 x 5.5") resides in our library as a tribute to my love of good questions, which I learned from my father. I made it long before I encountered the quote from Ursala LeQuin. Those words are being … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 4