September

Anne Stabell on the slowness of catching time with the fingertips: "Repeating the same movements hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Feeling the threads of the warp and the weft against my fingertips, watching the image grow. I feel close to my inner self when weaving. I am taken by the slowness of the technique. I like things to take time. Slowness and the fullness of the idea-trigging moments are in some way related. (...) I pull the thread through a momentary hole in time, and weave the looking-glass image of what is at the other side of time. (...) I also put invisible threads of smaller and bigger everyday events, the books I read, the stories and music I listen to." Image and text from Anne Stabell site.

June

What can we do with what we already have? What is the environment giving in abundance that we can use to solve a need or a problem? Knowledge, art, technology, resources, «things»? While we aspire for something else, what can we do with what we have?

Cut out plants may be garbage, food, play, or energy. They are also colour pallets, materials for creating tapestries, windows for other worlds. Plants, seeds, bark, and all kinds of different materials that lay around in the environment. Feeling the touch, discovering the colour, memorizing the smell. Weaving quietly different textures and tensions. Creating peace to guide action. Liberating the mind to shape possibilities.

 

Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

mindfulness

Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)