Welcome to First Friday at SpiritWorks

6 – 9:30 on Friday, September 2

The Carter Building

18-30A Glenwood Ave., Raleigh, NC 27603

 When I was a little girl, my mother sewed two of every dress she made for my twin sister and me.  In the process of looking for fabrics, she often picked up buttons she liked, for their color, shape or whimsical appeal.  Inevitably when our dresses were finished, she’d pull open her button drawer, and there among the packets would be the perfect buttons to complement her handiwork.  I’m the same way with handmade papers.  I have no idea how they’ll wind their way into what I’m doing.  But after the molding paste and paint feel complete to me, I turn to my papers (and saved bits of ribbon and string) and they tell me the rest of the story.

This month was magical to me.  Not only washi papers, but pictures of a Japanese opera in the NYT and nests from San Francisco photographer, Sharon Beals called for expression.  I found if I stayed in a place of curious noticing, that at every turn, the answer to my desire was already laid out waiting for my whim to catch up.

We are living in a time when the evident shifts can leave us feeling wobbly and threatened.  Yet if we live life with fingers spread open so that our experiences can sift through them, we also find cradled in our palm, the perfect next step.

 

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