strange desire

it has been snowing since Saturday night

.....

Sunday morning we woke up into a white world

It feels like a holiday, staying at home with husband and dog

No visits to papa down South, no tidying-up in our family home

[I've given self a year for that job]

The country's completely on hold because of the snow, funny that.

Time

precious time in the studio

To explore

to use fabric paper wood whatever

.....

Stuff that has been waiting for a Time like this

'strange desire'

this is the first finished cloth piece of 2021 I call it 'Strange Desire'
It's made with an old piece of home-dyed fabric I used to nick-name The Fox, which has been pinned to several walls now, moving as I move things around, like I do

I cannot remember quite when I thought it would make a perfect pillow, something to hold on to, now that many of us are suffering from 'HuidHonger' i.e. 'SkinHunger' due to Covid-related-lockdown-limited-contact-restrictions.....AHHRRG

it seemed appropriate to make an object to TOUCH and HOLD

Right, so I had a beginning, but what about the other side?
I started off by choosing the wrong fabric, of course I did, but I need to be stitching for a while to get that it's nót going to work.
Rummaging thru miscellaneous bits of fabric I found this old scrap of cotton I'd used as an oil paint rag, yes! I ironed it flat, oh and then it was a perfect match for the fox,
not quite knowing why at that moment, still not sure how to put into words that it simply FELT right, maybe because it was also stained by me, or something along those lines....
Both have a sensuous quality too, that helps I suppose

a few weeks ago I was interviewed in my studio by Gabri Wijnakker, by way of introduction to a new Art & Culture Collective in my neck of the woods; it's in Dutch, but you get a glimpse of me in my studio

may you find joy in the smallest crack and see the light shine through

namasté