It all started here one year ago. So much thanks to give for all that has transpired this past year. I started this blog with one thing in mind and ended up with so much more. Initially, I viewed it as a place to keep track of what I was doing, sort [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but I see shibori possibilities in so many things. I enjoyed a week away from everything surrounded by nature, beauty, and quiet. I had some books, some paper,paints,& pencils, and my camera and the time to spend with them without interruption.
Some of the things I saw-
beautiful red dots [...]
Heather ‘tagged” me with a meme yesterday and I looked it up on Wickpedia:
“a unit of cultural information, cultural evolution or diffusion — propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. “
and:
“Internet meme, [...]
I was following down a search that was done by someone that led them to my blog and I came across this quote by Eireann on her blog bara and design.
The post is entitled “beauty” .
“I once broke up with someone in part because he didn’t make anything. He didn’t understand the value of making, [...]
“mono no aware” is a japanese term most simply translated to awareness in the transient nature of things. shibori is like that to me. yesterday’s pieces while bound and tied for drying held a certain transient beauty for me, and an anticipation of what they would or could become when unbound. when unbound, [...]
it seems that we have fewer and fewer things in our lives these days that are truly unique, one of a kind things that we can relate back to the maker of the object. all my life i have been a maker of things, some unique and some repeatable, but always handmade. shibori [...]
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