hanging

by a thread
some days
that's just what it feels like

god is in the details

detail of a painting that will probably never get finished
yet was the beginning of everything i am doing now
and was the impetus for ivegotasecret

at the time
i seemed i had found the answer i was looking for
and i had
but it was not exactly what i thought
and it took a full 9 months
to realize that

yup,
a full 9 months

(and i had a real hard time choosing which image to use)

on a golden thread

as tweeted:

it's still slow going; twisting a piece of paint encrusted string on the surface of a painting, it comes off in my hand, soon i have 2 more

the other day i was looking to make 3 such objects to hang from gold thread on the wip project canvas, that's the way things go lately

but despite serendipitous discoveries, this slow pace is very unsettling & i am finding it hard to trust, hard to trust where it will lead

the journey

honestly
this is what it is ultimately about for me
the minutiae of process
the inherent beauty of materials
this little still life
composed of
the remains of a photo transfer
from an image posted months ago
with the gold thread of the present
and a stranded map pin from the recent past

yeah,
this is what it's about
and this & this make up the journey