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We spent a week in Costa Rica this past April. We flew into San Jose, then boarded a small plane to fly south, almost to Panama, to Gulfito. We spent a week hiking the rain forest, rappelling down waterfalls, eating glorious food, and wandering the beach.
This piece is inspired by that trip. One of the last wild places. We need more of them.
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Life is full of ebbs and flows. I’m in an ebb state these days, my production and creativity rates steady but low and slow. For six months, I worked on my latest Feeling, letting the work guide me where it wanted to go. Appropriately enough for this piece – (Feeling) Intuitive.
As I’ve done with work in the last couple of years, I’ve added acrylic paint to the art piece, using it to convey the feeling along with the fiber. I think it’s time to end that practice and return to the fiber roots, letting the fabric speak all on its own.
Intuitive represents the spark and energy felt when intuition strikes, often bold and bright. But pay attention for the quieter messages you receive. They’re often more powerful and carry more weight.
(Feeling) Intuitive Hand painted with acrylic paint on commercial fabric, raw edge fused applique, densely machine stitched.
With joy and ease…
Come back and visit again one day soon — I’ll have new work to share. Until then, listen for the messages the Universe or your Higher Power sends you every day. There’s always something you need to know.
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As we slid into spring this year, I felt pulled to return to my Feelings Series. When I stepped away from creating feelings out of fiber (although that never really stopped – everything I create comes from my feelings), I’d paused the series on an anabolic emotion – Joy. My pattern is to alternate between anabolic and catabolic feelings, so this meant my next piece needed to reflect lower energy.
“Weary” was chosen.
This piece started out larger in design and shape. As I worked my way through the stitching phase (the longest part of my process), I realized it was making me weary trying to figure out how to hang it without the lower portion flopping off the wall. In a move I’ve never made, I sliced the piece in half, then overlaid the two sections to create a more cohesive work of art.
Weary as originally designed.
I love the end result much more than the initial design.
Weary represents woman, weighed down by society and the work it takes to be seen and heard. May women continue to lift each other up so we feel less weary, less worn, and more connected to all of humanity and our blessed planet.
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New work! I recently completed (Feeling) Depression so today I’m sharing photos of this new textured fiber painting. I’m also sharing a little about my most recent experience with depression and the valuable lesson I learned from this feeling.
(As I always do, I’ve written a poem that goes with this piece. To read it, please visit my poetry website – www.piningforpoetry.com.)
I’ve experienced depression my whole life and have been fortunate to be able to manage it without the aid of medication (although I have always remained open to taking an antidepressant if the depression became persistent).
My depressive episodes typically only last a few days. Shifting myself up and out of the grey blue space was managed by focusing my attention on something outside myself. This practice worked for years.
Until recently.
I don’t know if it’s this pandemic year, or relocating across country in the midst of said pandemic, or general loneliness, or something more that produced an extended sink into the depths of depression this past summer. It’s likely some combination of all of these. All I really know is I began to feel blue in late summer and it evolved into feeling grey as summer became fall. The grey space remained until mid-October.
During that time, I kept showing up for my business. I kept showing up for my art. I kept showing up for myself and for those who love me. The one thing that helped me cope with what felt like a lost, lonely broken heart sunk deep within the grey was creating this piece.
I started it in mid-September, when the depression was fierce. As I created this artwork, I immersed myself in what I was feeling. I let tears flow when they came and I sat in the numbness when that’s all I could sense. I chose colors that matched how I felt, surrounding that fuchsia broken heart with all the shades of depression.
I took my time with this fiber painting, stitching when I could, #15minutesatatime, and as I stitched, I found myself rising up from the grey depths into the waves of the blue and eventually into the pure light of delight.
Feelings have so much to teach us, if we just let them. There are lessons to learn even when in the depths of depression. My art practice allows me to examine those feelings and from my study, evolve. Creating Depression out of fiber taught me the true purpose of life: we can choose to live with joy and ease.
And that’s what I’m doing now.
Detail views…
With joy and ease…
Depression is available for purchase for $1800 and would look fantastic on the wall of your home or office (or home office 🙂 ). If you’d like to own this piece, you have two options:
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