RECENT MOMENTS

What's been going on lately?

A lot...

and...

at the same time...

not much.

Continuing to work on balance.

Here's a peek into some recent moments.

Magazines clippings

that help me keep focus

and restate my intention...

Sherberty spring color palette...

used in an ongoing Vintage Spin (from Kathy Doughty)

that I want to be king sized and minkee backed.

My sacred sewing space...

with my new organizer under my machine...

(as if anything will get organized! Ha!)

A Modern Wedge workshop with

Sherri Lynn Wood

that I arranged.

http://daintytime.net/

This is Sherri's demonstration

of her interesting process.

She talked about being on the edge of the unknown

and the choice we have

between being afraid

or

living in our anxiety.

Living.

Letting go.

Accepting.

Surrendering.

She started class with a meditation

asking us to be present to what we were experiencing.

To be present in our creative process.

(This annoyed a lot of ladies,

but I loved it!)

She said that if we are flexible in our process

the patchwork will start to do it's own thing.

The more controlled we are,

the less life our work will have.

Here's some work

from the lovely group of ladies 

that gathered for the class.

As I reflect on the day

I am not sure how I feel.

Did I learn anything new?

Maybe I just needed 

to underline what I already know,

but can always be reminded of.

I enjoyed all the creative words about

being present

and attuned to our process.

But,

at the same time,

was left

feeling neutral.

Hmmm...

Two weeks later,

I took a contemporary string class with Gwen Martson.

I enjoy her work

and enjoy watching her even more.

She's a wonderful inspiration

for enjoying life.

Her words

echo Sherri's.

"Art is unpredictable.

If you are worried 

about if this goes with that

you have to get over it."

"You have to be a little more fearless girls."

"String quilts are a glorious celebration

of just going ahead...

you get to figure things out as you go along...

it keeps you engaged

all the way through."

"No rules RULES -

sew the way you want

press when you think you need to."

Here's some of the work form the ladies in the class.

Here's mine

in two different configurations.

Hmmm....

more neutral feelings...

wonder what that means?

And then there is my painting class.

Painting in one word...

intense.

Here's my last work

in progress...

Our last project is 

to be based on one of three collages we make of 

masterpeices.

Here are my three collages.

A bit of Picasso, Matisse, Klee, and Van Gogh.

I choose the last one 

and used a projector

to creat a paint by number!

Hearing Sherri and Gwen in my thoughts...

getting in touch with the present moment...

I am choosing to...

let go of the anxiety

and

be a little more fearless.

My art teacher says 

that as artists we create to know.

Let a joyful celebration of 

the process

begin!

Wise wonderful Walter knows all this already.