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there's this quote  that found me this week. about spirituality. but but i say, it's about creativity, too. it's about the thing that wakes you up (past the murky-sludgy stage if you're like me) and says  "LOOK goddammit" and get out the stuff and make that thought. fabricate. word made flesh. thought made materiality. maybe the language of spirit isn't far from the language of making. so: Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.  Ken Wilber ~~~ so, I've been working on several things this while, ~ the madder dyeing ~ a couple botanical contact prints for my indigo shifu ~ tending a new small garden at the new place ~ finishing the cleanup and label of ALL the fiber ~ finding yarns for my new pipe loom ~ sorting cloth for Zone 4,  my own work,  and my fall papermaking class at SLU and ~ i'm going to Vancouver to Maiwa to take the five day dye workshop. yep.  Vancouver.  i want to have a more methodological dye experience, to have a deeper understanding of the basics and then more, something i never had,  except with chemical dyes. in the mid 70's. this week's red daylily flowers prompted the first quarter sheet contact prints in quite a long time.   i got out my camera (after realizing that my little red one has some lens damage)  and took a few photos of the garden after i removed it. the working metal  and the newly dyed papers  being rinsed and then drying.  i tried hard to adjust the color and just achieved more weirdness apologies. there was a lot of green.  here the four are in blotters, under weighs   and dried, they look more like this  the exhaust dyebaths from my 35 year old madder yielded some lovely pastels on linen cloths  and on silk  this is the rest of the madder the first dyebath yielded the deep rose  and then the oranges  and then the cloths and finally the above bits.  i mordanted with alum and cream of tarter and here are different fibers both cellulose and protein the big skein on the left is a darker rose. how do real photographers get their colors right???  the last five red daylilies as i begin a bundle. If you see some wonky spacing here, blogger seems to be struggling lately and sending up weirdness each time i post. sigh. of course today, monday, i have errands-a broken vacuum -my right rear tire picked up a 1.5 " finishing nail and had embedded it. yes, my second set of new tires this year and the same spot, though different tire as the one that had three nails simultaneously in it last year. and it's the one that had been replaced because of that. apparently i ride on back roads in the country where people haul around their waste haphazardly!