April's quartet ...
which felt more like a kind of poem evolving than a
weekly exercise in making;
more like a continuous thought that moved quietly from
one color palette to the next - which I will explain further
at the bottom of this post.
Without further ado ...
Once again I'll note the source, or the word prompts, or where my inspiration came from
below each photograph (with links, if applicable).
~ New beads! called 'Rose Petals,' which started as an exploration of
mandalas but grew into
~ Off-loom bead weaving can be an incredibly meditative activity & a welcomed mental state of
mind it was this month, so I included a short journey with the freeform version of
this stitch in order to practice mixing bead sizes & shapes ~
~ In March of 2015, I had rather an amusing
*failed* attempt at dyeing with madder and only
achieved apricot colors. Since then the shade has grown on me & I've wanted to use some of
that cloth in a beaded piece. A water-inscribed twig of driftwood, some pearls
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Now, about that evolving thought I mentioned earlier ...
I didn't realize until I took this quartet outside to photograph her that there is a certain
calm
running through this batch that I haven't seen in the others. This month
feels like one cohesive journey tied together by an invisible equilibrium. Am I
making sense? Its as if I'm starting to work out some triteness, some of those cliches that
crop up when doing improvisational bead work. There was definitely more of an ease this
month, a kind of level of intention that never left me. It's hard to explain but let me tell you
what I did at the beginning of the month:
I drew a card ...
The words were
so
utterly
perfect
I kept them in front of me on the beading table for the entire month.
It is where I held my focus.
And from that came a great, soothing calm
along with an unmistakeable affirmation to keep paying attention
to that which is most important.
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