The story line art project allows you to reflect backwards to get know those who came before you, to see whose shoulders you stand upon, who blazed the trail before you.
Immediately we all go into our memory banks to withdraw someone who was a hero, who against all odds, seemed to flourish and persevere.
As I flipped through files in my mind, I knew who I would write about.
I know her intimately for her shoes I wear; yet I have no pictures of her, nothing.
Well, I do have a family picture with a sticky note saying she is missing.
Her and I are the sticky notes, the holes in the family or the ones that got away.
Like a pair of mittens knitted decades apart, we match.
When I seen the mitten tree with all the different mittens who lost their pair, I felt a sense of connectedness.
I loved how they looked displayed so artfully on the branches, the snow, the green tree and the lights.
I wondered what drew me to that tree and its simplicity, homemade and nature.
As I drove home from the quilt meeting with my own mitten tree quilt, it took on new meaning. How the mittens were all misfits, mismatched, part of a broken set, yet when hung together make a beautiful tree.
And this morning as I sit here with the quilt in front of me, I see the lady approaching the tree…I see the tree, and I wonder how this will complete itself.
What story line will this quilt unfold for me?
Before it is even complete I feel a great sense of peace settle over me. I belong on this tree.
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I belong on this Tree.
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My Ladies come alive!
Sometimes in life the Universe offers you a glimpse at someone who is a delight to watch and listen to.
She arrived wearing a black hat, set jauntily on her head and big interesting jewelry all off set on an outfit in black.
Around the room she went introducing herself, holding your hand, looking you in the eyes and repeating your name.
She immediately changed the energy of the room, at least for me.
As she gave her message, she was delighted with herself and her Art, asking for others to join her vision.
Her Art is a community project; it involves everyone who is open and willing to share.
She envisions 10,000 individual stories all hung together joining a long line of connections, weaving the past to the present, showing the walks of many who have walked upon the same roads we travel today.
Her idea is to see whose shoulders you stand upon.
Written in the first person, a story and a picture, all hanging together in a line of humanity, their lives, their struggles, the journey of their times, told by someone today.
The Art will be displayed this summer at an opera and a music festival.
She needed help with panels upon which the story will rest. Some of us will lend a hand in making her vision possible.
After she involved us in her Art, she then sat back and enjoyed ours.
It was fun to watch her engage life, how she seemed to hang on each second, paying close attention to what was at hand…astute, curious and involved and very much her own self and very comfortable there.
I have to admit that I wanted to share my quilts with her, just to watch her reaction.
I was tickled when she smiled and literally gave me a thumbs up, very pleased.
She epitomizes my ladies or my ladies are a reflection of her!
What is the saying life imitating Art…
It was like seeing one of my Ladies come alive!
I M Perfect lady 