Showing posts with label emily carr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emily carr. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

INKLE LOOM / OBOE ASSISTING

















Instead of drawing this morning and yesterday morning, I spent the set-aside time in re-orienting myself to my inkle loom and "dressing" the loom in preparation for weaving a 2" wide belt that will be black and red. I'm not sure how long the belt will be but am guessing that it will be about 50" long, including fringe.

Below Oboe is looking up at the inkle belts I wove last summer.






















"The subject means little. The arrangement, the design,
colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance,
not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something
additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing,
a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness
of all things." Emily Carr (1871-1945)

UPDATE: My old friend from California no longer needs a tracheostomy to breathe after having had a stroke in September. Thanks to all who have kept him in your prayers and kind hearts. He says he still has a way to go before he can return to his home but has his heart set in a homeward direction once he can swallow and walk by himself.

Monday, December 31, 2007

A PIECE OF THE UNIVERSE



























































"When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its
connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through
it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the
same." -- Emily Carr (1871-1945)

Thursday, September 6, 2007

EMILY DICKINSON AND EMILY CARR (1830-1945) / CONTEMPORARIES OF MY GRANDMOTHERS AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS









Exultation is the going
Of an island soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity --


Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand,
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?


-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

AND:











































"Scorned As Timber, Beloved of Sky"

-- Emily Carr (1871-1945)

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Calendar Series: 36th Month / Freedom with Tears and Laughter (1988)

"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence." (Emily Carr, 1871-1945) 

In this second year of my recovery from eating disorders came a new freedom, with tears AND laughter. All my life I had been running away from sorrow, not knowing that I was also running away from joy.