slowly she turned

Friday-Saturday, Sept. 13-14, 2024

The fog and a few showers rolled in. The rain was needed though. Dust covered the cars in the parking lot from the drive up the roads to Wildacres, which were partially paved.

I finally bound my “Dark Forest” book, although it could use a press under weights and I still need to do the endbands. The briar on top can be easily removed to press the book, though, so I’ll do that now that it is home, and post a video of the whole thing once it is really finished. This section of common greenbrier is a very hard tough piece of wood that I picked up at Lake Waccamaw and I’ve saved for years with the intention to showcase it on a book cover or collage. The covers were painted, sanded, burned, and drilled in Dan Essig’s class at Pocosin Arts in the summer of 2022.

Here are the small tapestries I stitched to canvases. These will be for sale at my upcoming show(s).

I have always planned to do a large tapestry of the bottom one – I may be inspired to do it after I finish the one on my loom now. It is an abstract of a view of wooden stairs from a window in a room at Fort Worden in Port Townsend.