A couple of years ago, i thought it was a "craze" and wanted nothing to do with it. Now i am completely enamoured of the process.
Taking time and patience to create, whether by hand or machine, or a combination of both, is a good lesson in working intuitively and instinctually.
I post this because at last i have found a use for some of the cloth from Siri's silk screen printing workshop during the summer '09 residency at ACAD:
In the upper right side is a piece of that, combined with my own hand dyed fabrics, and a raggedy holed piece pulled from the communal scrap bin at the college also.
Slow Cloth has been a real lesson for me in patience--i am fast naturally at tasks, at learning, at reading, at art (which is *not* always a good thing)------but i began to wonder if the speed meant something was, not lost, just never found in the first place. I still find it difficult to move into that space where it happens naturally, but i think my Instinctual Bones are getting stronger :} and when i'm in that zone, i am IN that zone. I welcome going deeper into this part of my life and art.
It's harder to be slow, methodical and in tune with things, than it is to just drive right over everything. But if you do it fast, the mistakes can be harder to fix.
