Image: Floating Warp Geometry, 1980
Linen, cotton, wool and rayon
IT’S ABOUT CHANGE
As a weaver, it always starts with the warp.
I remember distinctly picking out this linen warp to weave.
I was not stable enough, at the time, to know
what I wanted to weave until I began the weaving.
I knew the size.
But not the pattern.
So many options, so many ideas.
I realized right away that I wanted to show the warp openly;
I had never done that before.
How could I adapt, then, to all the colors and textures
I wanted to weave,
how would I secure the structure and how do I integrate everything together?
What makes sense…
How can I create a weaving showing the purity
of the materials and have order and geometry?
All of this can be paralyzing.
There was always a willingness to grow and learn.
So I wove and built a new geometry.
I did unweave a bit here and there
until I got it the way I wanted.
As Vedic Meditators, we need to check in on 5 principles
of Evolution, to ensure that we are not regressing in any way.
That we are going in the direction of progressive change.
We wish to have optimal growth.
We want our lives to be the byproduct of our right actions.
These five elements need to be embraced for optimal growth
to higher states of consciousness:
STABILITY gives us the capacity to grow our capabilities.
A product of the grounded mind. This comes from Vedic Meditation.
ADAPTABILITY is having adaptive responses to demands
or changes in expectations without wanting to flee.
INTEGRATION means being able to integrate our lives
into new innovative useful knowledge that
enhances our repertoire of capabilities.
PURIFICATION is letting go of rigid attachment to irrelevant ways
of behaving that are no longer helpful and are holding us back.
WILLINGNESS TO GROW means having a willingness
to look at new ways of doing things that embrace the need of the time.
In my art and life, I now go through a checklist.
Is my warp Stable.
Is the weaving going to adapt to the setting.
Is everything integrating beautifully.
Is there a purity in the language.
Am I willing to change.
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