Our two days of sun are gone, but I'm experiencing a different kind of warmth today. My sweetie and I went to Willamette University in Salem today for two related events: a wonderful pow-wow and to visit the incredible display of Marie Watt's works there (if you didn't watch OPB's ArtBeat segment about Marie, learn more at her website here.)
Watt's mid-career retrospective, Lodge, was stunning. If you get a chance to go to the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette this month, GO! Among many other works, there's a blanket cave, complete with stalactites and a ghostly story-teller video, and then a huge stack of blankets with story-tags attached telling about histories of the blankets. I read one story that had me in tears. Amazing.
And if that weren't ENOUGH, Marie invited anyone who wanted to, to sit and add their stitches to another piece she's making -- right there at the pow-wow. Of COURSE I had to join in. I had a luminous experience -- just a few feet away from the dancers, the wonderful music all around, and a delightful almost-quilting experience that left me itching to get out my needles again at home very SOON. Beautiful, beautiful.
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