I've begun to stitch beyond the muslin onto the recycled denim, and I love how it's all coming together. Several people have referred to all of my recent stitching as a meditation, and it really is.
It's much easier to relax and be creative when I'm simply enjoying the process, rather than thinking about how I want the finished project to look. I'm not even sure if this will ever become anything more than it already is. Recycled cloth, paint and stitches. It's enough for now. It's helping me get back on track in a number of ways.
Jacky mentioned in her comment on my past post, how some of the petal outlines reminded her of birds. Yes. I see it too, and I like the idea of working some birds into this.
The lack of space to create, and to store what I've created, continues to challenge me. But we all have challenges, this one just happens to be mine. In the greater scheme of things, it's a small challenge. Maybe it just means that I am not ready to work on the large canvases I want to work on. This seems to be my time to focus on working on smaller canvases, on paper and on cloth.
That's not so bad.
Thank you all so much for your kind comments to my last posts. Beau has had some much better days lately. I have mixed feelings about medicating animals, but the addition of the daily pain pills seems to be helping him for now. So we will take each good day with gratitude.
It feels great to be back on track with art, and blogging, and life in general. It might be a different track, but a different track might be just what I need.
