November 02, 2007

A Whisper in your ear

After many months I have recently realised that though I have continued to blog you might not guess that from this place.  If you would like to know where what and why of some of my daily living go HERE and discover that life still finds me amused and thrilled ....and still a blogger in my own style:0)

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October 29, 2006

Eagle Eyed?

If you noticed I am impressed, if not...there have been changes in the sidebar which will lead you to another place where from today any posting I do will happen, Thanks for walking along with me this far hope you'll carry on popping an, walking past and waving and maybe sometimes evn stopping and chatting:0)

New address http://animatedstardust.typepad.com/astwo/  ,known as Heading Home

October 15, 2006

Layers and textures

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Walking in the woods at this time of the year when mist encloses and leaves rustle beneath ones feet is time of dreaming and listening for me. It is also a time to revel in the layers of the Earth which reveal themselves as I brush my feet through the fallen leaves and I am always thrilled by the textures and colours presented to hungry eyes.

The autumn always encourages me to look below the surface of my life and discover the layers built up over the year, discovering what needs to be let go and what will feed the coming darker, dormant days through the winter be that coinciding with the season of winter or in personal times of winter.

Often there are surprises when I brush a booted foot through fallen leaves signs of life in shape of beetle or fallen fruit, fungi finding shade and sustenance in the most inhospitable places to my eyes. I always stop and spend a moment getting to 'know' what I am looking at.

I take this practice into my daily life when looking beneath the layers of my own life and am often surprised that not only is there life in the most unpromising environment but often beauty brought about by the transformation of letting go that which has run its natural course.

October 10, 2006

Belonging

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Sitting this morning I found my eye drawn to this environment and it set me wondering about all the 'worlds' held by this world and how many I miss or trample upon without realising and I held my gaze for a long time on this small world of wood and web and felt the pull of the tides the gaze of the moon and the songs of the stars within and without as the sense of communion, belonging found echo in my heart.

It was only a moment but a moment to wrap gently and open throughout a day and feel a link not the overwhelming separation that often fills the mind  that forgets that I am the tree, I am the soil, I am the brick, I am the mess and muddle but most of all I am stardust come from and going to the Universe.

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Weekly contemplation

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    Weekly consideration of the daily 'thought' words, brought to life in shape and colour as expression of these words and the word of the month. I did not begin the weekly images until March of 2006 till then consideration of the daily word in notes put in a small pad plus postcard size doodles of day were the elements but during February I began to consider the shapes and colours I see when each daily word is presented to me and decided this was an expansion of this practice that needed to be approached practically. As it stands at the moment each Sunday I aim to put the shapes and colours together in a whole. This will mean a 52 page 'book' for the year , there are other strands to this I feel but am not clear as yet what but I certainly see the book being similar to the wallpaper sample books with a handle to carry it and bolts through the 'spine' to hold it all together. I loved those books when I was a child all that colour and texture I suppose. Like my childhood wallpaper books by unscrewing the the hinge/spine, pages will be able to travel from book to wall though unlike the selotape or blutac that was used to attach the patterns to my walls these pages will get at the least black mounts and could be framed glazed and hung as art.... but then I thought the pages of the wallpaper books were art and in truth one of my favourite places to go to this day is the V&A Museum in London and spend hours drooling over the samples of fabulous hand printed papers for walls which sometimes happened to be fabric too.

Today for today

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    This began with an invite to submit 16 Artist Trading Cards on the theme TODAY. I went off on a tangent and didn't produce 16 ATC's but 18 concertina 'books' appeared.

Landscapes of my life

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    The works I am creating for this project are snapshots on a journey that never finds arrival destination just many stopping and shuddering to a halt viewing points but as a group may just open a small window on living this life. This is an ongoing piece of work with no deadline but I aim to have the first body of work in some sort of order by New Year - my new year which begins November 2006

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