This week I practiced expanding appearances and exploring perspectives.\u00c2\u00a0 Earlier today, I was hand-casting cotton linter and thought the playful experience lent itself well to the exercises\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
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As I soaked the linter in water, I thought about its momentary forms. \u00c2\u00a0One form was as a seed, sprouting in the sunshine, watered by the rain, growing in the wind into a tall plant blooming into white, cottony puffs.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought about its time in rough hands, pulled from the plant and tossed into large baskets to sit on the back of a truck on the way to the mill.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought about the machines that tossed it about, pulling the fibers apart and combing out stray seed particles, preparing it for packaging.<\/p>\n
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The form of the cotton at my moment of inquiry was that of dry cotton linter, being again reshaped into a hand-casting mold of forest pines, together with a sprinkling of tiny flower seeds.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought about how soon the light that shined upon its newly refined form would be holiday lights, rather than sunshine, and how its audience would be smiling faces rather than cawing black crows.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I thought about how it would return to the earth, holding the seeds I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d cast into the pulp, and become another form.<\/p>\n
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It was interesting to consider the way its form expanded, imagining it as a computer might show it as special effects, through all of its forms from a seed in the dirt to return to the dirt holding seeds and finally, dissolving as new plants grew from it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was interesting to consider that expansion of its presence, in a timelessness, changing space, and manner.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m unsure if I understand the field communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 correctly; my idea is that that field communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 was more than the physical hand-cast piece.<\/p>\n
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Hopefully, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not too far off track!<\/p>\n
Thank you,<\/p>\n
Erin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week I practiced expanding appearances and exploring perspectives.\u00c2\u00a0 Earlier today, I was hand-casting cotton linter and thought the playful experience lent itself well to the exercises\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00c2\u00a0 As I soaked the linter in water, I thought about its momentary … Continue reading