image by Gina Sekelsky at Dreamland
I am stuck.
My friend Gina and I are collaborating on a skirt. It’s a skirt with words all over it. Gina’s a calligrapher, so it is pretty. You can read all about hers on her blog. (Go there, really, it’s awesome) You can see it at the Textile Center right now too, coincidentally.
I saw hers. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I decided I needed to have one for all of the conference teaching I am doing this summer and needing to look artsy and awesome.
I have my colors all picked out, but I got to the words and froze. I don’t know what it should say. I have ideas, I have a feeling, I don’t have words. So I need quotes. PLEASE help! What’s your favorite quote?
Here are a couple I like:
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see
nothing that does not answer. (jane austen)i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands (ee cummings)(That one is probably too long, maybe just the last 2 lines?)
Help!
And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree
The shape of our future
The shape of all our history
(Lyrics from I Was Brought to my Senses by Sting) I have always loved this song.
1) Stop over sometime on your way to/from TC and look at my entry wall, where I have a couple of dozen quotes painted (including one line from the e.e. cummings poem you referenced!).
2) Look at the quotations section of my blog. I am experimenting with printing these out onto photo transfer paper….
3) Think context; what about a line from a favorite book?
4) Think of another project that could have words on it — scarf, table runner, t-shirt — and then this one won’t seem so one-of-a-kind important!
Good luck!!
Gina
A few of my favorites:
When you’re up to your butt in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your objective is to drain the swamp.
No good deed goes unpunished.
You can’t teach a pig to sing – it won’t work, and it just annoys the pig.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
I am stopping now but I could go on…is there anything about the fabrics that you are using or that pattern that would lead you in a certain direction?