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Charlotte Bird Birdworks Fiber Arts
A
creek
threads
through
stones
as different
as snow
flakes.
Red and
yellow
lichens
grow on
eleven
gray
stones,
ignoring
the browns.
Creeks
assemble
their
stones
without
a vision
of how
the
story
ends,
without
a plan
for
that
matter,
trusting
the flow
of time.
Lichens
assemble
their
cells
without
a vision
of how
their
story
ends,
without
a plan,
trusting
the flow
of the
creek
and time.
My
new
work
comes
from
meditations
on the
ways
of the
stones,
the
lichens,
the
creek,
and
the
stones’ illusions
when I infuse
them with
energy of
the cosmos.
These pieces
do not begin
with drawings
or even
visions
with an
end in mind.
Instead,
they grow
from a process
in which
everything
must find
the place
where it
belongs
-each stone,
each stitched
thread of
a stream
among them,
each cell
and each
stitched
filament
that connects
or constrains
or remains
when the
cells are
gone. This
is a process
both joyful
and fearful.
The
joys
are
in discovering
where
the
stones
and
stitches
belong.
The
fears
are
about
not
knowing
the
end
of the
story
until
I see
it resolved.
The
stones
or
stitches
might
belong
in
places
that
disturb
or
distress,
or
maybe
they
won’t
belong at
all. I must
trust time
and the
work’s
own flow
to bring
resolution.
Charlotte
Bird
August, 2005
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