Monday 18 March 2019

One Thing Leads to Another


When stitching on this piece nowadays
What comes to mind is
Every Stone is an Island unto Itself


I also thought shoreline rocks would "swoosh" between them.
Spent a few days stitching swooshes.
Decided this weekend to undo all those swooshes
Spent two days so far unswooshing
Just going with the flow!


Thinking of adding hints of islands....


....on the distant horizon.
 Just going with the flow.


With on piece coming to it's completion
Need to firm up plans on what to start next
Playing around with colours.
Just going with the flow


I learnt something this winter
In past winters I assumed snow tunnels we discovered
were made by mice.
But no
It is the squirrels.
We watch this little bird food devil
slide down his tree
straight into a tunnel at it's base
and pop out of one of three
tunnel entrances at the base of the bird feeder!
Cheeky


Happy Birthday Mark!

I hope one thing leads to another in your studio today.
And as Peter London says
in "No More Secondhand Art"
"... begin the initial phase with the open-ended statement 
Let's see what happens"

6 comments:

  1. I didn't know squirrels made snow tunnels. Interesting! Love all the beautiful colors in your piece.

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  2. Well, I like the way one thing is leading to another here!

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  3. Go with the flow, is a bit like life, sometimes life is better to just go with the flow and not fight to go upstream.
    So interesting to read squirrels are tunnel diggers.

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  4. So interesting this piece

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  5. Love the cheeky squirrel! None around here (too remote) but...first groundhog siting on Saturday! Flow on, dear friend...flow on...

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  6. Well I learned something - did not know that squirrels made tunnels. And nobody goes with the flow better than you!!

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