Resurrected or Reincarnated?

After two years of dormancy, my attentions here have definitely resurrected the blog. And now I even have a whole new vision for what I’d like to share, so that counts as reincarnating it too.

Present day, present purpose. The ABOUT page elaborates on my new intentions for this space, so I won’t be redundant. I am excited to have an Interlude to share, and already, the creative process is offering up a few surprises. This project is all about ‘getting into the vortex.’

I invited my friend Fran over for some collaborative creativity, and I’m glad that she is the inaugural co-conspirator for my first Interlude project. It is her own focused and self-aware blog that inspired me to return to thedawnofcreation. Please see my sidebar link to Fran’s blog: Something For (Almost) Nothing. She pairs baking and birds, and I literally cannot stop smiling every time I read her posts.

For our creative time, Fran and I considered a few project options, and decided to make some fabric-wrapped clothesline bowls. I made several recently for a craft fair, and have become smitten with the spiraling nature of the whole project. A few years ago I saw this video that suggests our solar system is helical; the animation of our planets spiraling around the sun was incredibly calming to see:

And if you’ve ever whirled in dance or joy, you’ll know that it feels good too, just spinning around your central point and letting all the inner and outer rest of it fly off into its own space and trajectories. Even today, as I enjoyed a walk, I saw a little boy get off the bus and spin-walk his way down the block. Every few steps he’d stumble, pause to refind his balance, and whirl away some more. It was unabashed, kinetic, and beautiful. (I’m sure his balance would have persevered if he hadn’t been wearing his winter coat and heavy-looking backpack.)

So, fellow Creator, imagine the thrill of taking thin strips of fabric and wrapping them around a central cording, while also sewing together a spiral plane and then lateral planes of the cording into a dense form that exists in time and space. A form, I might add, that stores your doodads too! For one who loves to merge craft and metaphysics, it’s a dream come true. Please join me in the days to come, as I enact the miracles of learning how to use basic blog technology, present photographic evidence of ideas turning into form, offer sane discussions of how those ideas become physical reality, and explore the creative process while housed in a human body. We’ll get trippy, spinning our way into the clarity of the vortex.

Here are some images from our creative time together. An excellent point that emerged from this, is that when learning something new, or doing something for the first time, keep it simple. Even though our options for creating are endless, they can be overwhelming. So one of the keys to good Creatorship is knowing what you have to work with, and work with it in wisdom.

For our super Fabric-wrapped Clothesline Bowl Day, I had everything we needed, and pre-selected fabrics from my stash that I felt would translate well with this project. Big surprise #1 for the day – Fran said she’d been inspired by reds lately, and after playing with some combinations, ultimately chose a calm, whispering white-washed aqua. Big surprise #2 – Fran so enjoyed the feel, shape and look of the base of her bowl, that she chose to finish it there. So now she has a divinely spiraled and embodied mat. Without doubt, it is perfection in density.