Here are some double exposure collages made while thinking about the Stephen King quote that Danny wrote in his goodbye note:
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us and, sometimes, they win.”
I know I’ve shared it before, but it sticks with me.
On a different note:
And this, on the way to the Swap Shop this week:
We walk Finn after dinner these days — just around the block. It’s a nice new habit.
And lastly, adding a back layer of felt stabilized this otherwise floppy wall hanging. It also allowed me to stitch the bamboo skewer and string for hanging right into the layers at top. Remind me to try again in future.
Dee~ Your last two photos are really nice. The colors both invite you to wander more and comfort you in the feeling of day’s end. Danny left you with much to consider. I hope that gets easier over time.
Our circuit is a mere block but it is nice to get out. Often it’s around sunset and the trees to the west are adorned with pink and peach skies.
double exposures are so much a kind of ghosting.
I like the black on the edge of that piece.
Yes ghosting. And sometimes one layer is already a couple of layers and things pop out that I hadn’t seen.
It’s a good reminder in a lot of ways…
Yes. Things we miss. Things waiting to be revealed.
A curved pathway in your cloth, echoing your walks with Finn. The mellowness of the background of the houses, project home as haven and yet, there are those jolts of red, black and navy on either side of the beckoning path that begs the question, what lies around the bend or even, at the end of the road? This thought brought me right to Danny’s Stephen King quote.
Re adding the black flannel to the back of your cloth to stabilize it, is a good solution and brought me a memory:. All of my cloths have no backing so they all look floppy and rumpled on my walls. I remember my sister in law looking somewhat bewildered at several of my cloths asking me when I would finish them so that they would hang straighter and wouldn’t it help if I used store bought rods instead of tree branches as my hangers. I had a hard time answering her, at first telling her that when I first started naturally dyeing cloth, I had no intention of taking up needle and thread (my least favorite thing in my process) but after my pile of dyed cloths grew, I realized that I had to do something with them. I tried to explain how this is all an organic process for me and using tree branches that I cure, by letting them dry out and how using foraged windfall, the materials that I use to get color, are all part of what I am trying to achieve with my cloths. How I waited for some direction and when story came, it had all to do with the landscape here in New Mexico, a landscape that is far from smooth or landscaped so the format of my cloths, all landscape collages, echo this. When her eyes glazed over, I simply said that I was too lazy to do more with my cloths!
The above comment was by Marti.
I knew that 😉
Oh that ending is funny.