Be like the bird when pausing on limb too slight, sings, knowing she has wings. --Victor Hugo This quotation was discovered before I turned 20! This week, the warbler and the quotation and I are celebrating the birthday of one of my daughters in law. Kendra is an artist, a lover of birds, and one … Continue reading call / respond week 20
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Call / respond week 19
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. --Michelle Obama I added this quotation to my collection this past year, pairing it with the artwork, Collect. Most readers will see that title as a verb, … Continue reading Call / respond week 19
call/respond Week 18
To make a prairie it take a clover and one bee-- One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few. --Emily Dickinson "Revery" is woven from strips of fabric and matted on both sides. It is designed to hang in a window of on a french door. This … Continue reading call/respond Week 18
Call / Respond Week 17
And it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful --e e cummings I was a middle schooler when the poetry of e e cummings took hold of me. As an Illinois farm child, spring was a mixed season because on wet years the mud was nearly unsurmountable. But the poet's picture of spring enchanted me. Years … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 17
Call / Respond week 15
Trees are sanctuaries. --Herman Hesse The tree of life shown here is created on the front of a white silk chasuble. I found the quote from Hesse this week and I thought they would like to be together. I like to be close to trees. Do you? About Call / Response: Quote-a-day calendars infuse my … Continue reading Call / Respond week 15
Call / Respond Week 13
Leap and the net will appear. --John Burroughs I encountered Burrough's words in a group study of Julia Cameron's The Artist Way many years ago at a time when my courage needed to be reignited. The art quilt, part of the reignited work, includes the bold moves of stitching tucks in a flat work and … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 13
Call /Respond Week 12
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
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