i tried to post a couple of times to your previous posting of it but lj has been an ass lately. it's beautiful and so moving. i love it- the idea, emotion, craftsmanship- all of it.
Spider webs are the impetus for my first 'connections' piece. I had been thinking about the links between people....and working towards that in my art...but one day I was sitting in the backyard as the sun was getting lower in the sky. I was so relaxed and I was looking at everything in such a way that it was as if my eyes were auti-focusing slowly at whatever I turned to. And as I stared at the grass I caught the sun glinting off a spiderweb...and with that new 'setting' on my eyes I looked around and I could see that spiderwebs were absolutely everywhere...connecting all through the lawn and in each bush or tree...the entire backyard was a trail of web and I had never seen it before! Now this is one of my favorite seeing exercises by the window....seeing the web traces.After that experience I felt more determined to use the monofilament (called Spider-Line!) on my pieces to represent those invisible connections between people in our world.
That must be hard for you. My family moved to Florida, and you'd think it was overseas based on how often I get to visit. Usually just for the X-mas Holidays. But this piece is showing the invisible connections regardless of distance...and definitely activiated by pulses of communication both direct and/or on a level we are yet unaware of. You are part of a configuration with your family that spreads or clusters but is always one 'organism'connected. if that helps.:)
Thanks, sweetie. Strangely enough, yesterday after writing that note back to you my mom calls and tells me that my aunt in Puerto Rico is possibly in her very last days. She's been working with just one good lung and now that one is going.*sigh* they just dismissed her from intensive care with a 'nothing more they can do' and that she would be more comfortable in her house (implying not much longer). It was as if the Empathy Box was a mental exercise and now it was just made real...I felt myself reconnecting in my mind with someone I haven't seen in a long time, and with her loved ones, and how they must feel in this difficult time... And now I am trying to decide what the most potent, loving 'pulse' I can send will be. I am considering writing a little packet of memories for her from when I was there as a little girl..,a picture of us now, and some pictures of the Empathy Box with an explanation. *sigh* so strange...
reminds me of those cold war spy movies wherer they fight in the arctic and charleton hestons slide along those wires and fight russians dressed as polar bears
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Date: 2003-05-22 10:50 pm (UTC)it's beautiful and so moving. i love it- the idea, emotion, craftsmanship- all of it.
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Date: 2003-05-22 11:02 pm (UTC)the strings remind me of spider webs, i love it.
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Date: 2003-05-23 07:10 am (UTC)But this piece is showing the invisible connections regardless of distance...and definitely activiated by pulses of communication both direct and/or on a level we are yet unaware of. You are part of a configuration with your family that spreads or clusters but is always one 'organism'connected. if that helps.:)
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Date: 2003-05-24 10:14 am (UTC)And now I am trying to decide what the most potent, loving 'pulse' I can send will be. I am considering writing a little packet of memories for her from when I was there as a little girl..,a picture of us now, and some pictures of the Empathy Box with an explanation. *sigh* so strange...
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