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Mo Crow
Sydney, Australia
illustrating the lyrics of Old Man Crow one song at a time
Interests: illustration, bookbinding, music, crows, cats, looking after our beautiful planet for the seventh generations
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ah good to see the bit of starry palm inflorescence, your pennant has made it home safe & sound!
and re what below? earthworms for aerating the soil & making it rich and friable for those roots!
Commented 5 hours ago on Beloved at windthread
Beloved
copper pot and lilacs Looking cloth. roots. Birds above....what below?
love the feeling of time and space stitched into the blueness of it all!
Commented 8 hours ago on What came next at handstories
What came next
Blue. Lots of blue. With a layer of flannel in-between. I dug out the biggest pieces that could be found, including one with a rosy patch (I don't remember when or why that happened.) And now stitching the three layers together. There's a moon, an archway, and water lines are in ...
(((Jude))) so good to see Love Takes Time home safe and sound & the beautiful healing work of the Magic Feather Cloth
Commented yesterday on Reminded that Love Takes Time at Spirit Cloth
Reminded that Love Takes Time
She's back home. The pennant. You remember yes? Mo's project...along with one of Mo's tiny stars. And lo and behold... she is going to bloom. I've been nursing this rescued begonia for a year now. Wendy has sent me an update for the Magic Feather Cloth... her email with some video clips,...
I love this verse from Emily Dickinson's poem for hope
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all
Commented yesterday on a day we call Earth Day at windthread
a day we call Earth Day
and this Cloth...now, in Celebration of the Spirit of Emily Dickenson If you want to be SURPRISED and AMAZED, go...Listen to Future Primitive podcast of 4-20-2019 interview with Steven Herrmann about the "prophetic visionary", Emily Dickinson. His book: Emily Dickinson: A Medi...
ah this 21st C world is so full of rules and regulations, x fingers everything can get approved in the not too faraway!
Commented yesterday on how it can go at windthread
how it can go
a female Wind I met Alyssia and the kids at the Storage Place at noon. She had decided that she can use the futon couch, two chairs the dresser and my beloved stove Sabine at her house. For now. All the two days of loading things in New Mex, i kept saying, i don't ...
(((Grace))) this is going to seem really nosy but I have to ask, why aren't you building your little wooden house, you have the stumps and bearers all ready to go ...
Commented 2 days ago on how it can go at windthread
how it can go
a female Wind I met Alyssia and the kids at the Storage Place at noon. She had decided that she can use the futon couch, two chairs the dresser and my beloved stove Sabine at her house. For now. All the two days of loading things in New Mex, i kept saying, i don't ...
just added your beautiful photos & words to the latest ripples post
https://itscrowtime.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/more-ripples-of-love-as-the-pennants-and-talismans-find-their-way-home/
Commented 4 days ago on returning & gifts at handstories
returning & gifts
The "Love Can Mend" pennant is back from being a part of Mo's powerful installation of love, "I Dream of a World Where Love is the Answer". Mo's vision, talents and magic gathered together love and hope from around the world. I wish I could have been in that room and have been surrounded...
(((Hazel))) so good to see your beautiful pennant enjoying the spring in your garden!
Commented 4 days ago on returning & gifts at handstories
returning & gifts
The "Love Can Mend" pennant is back from being a part of Mo's powerful installation of love, "I Dream of a World Where Love is the Answer". Mo's vision, talents and magic gathered together love and hope from around the world. I wish I could have been in that room and have been surrounded...
we are eyes hearts and hands for our beautiful broken world
Commented 4 days ago on who are we? and does it really matter? and if it does, why? and how? at windthread
who are we? and does it really matter? and if it does, why? and how?
i have thought about many many things today. I'll come back to this tomorrow. It's too crowded in my mind right now
love how Michele's shed funding for Grace is like a 21st C form of barn raising!
Commented 5 days ago on mending. Together. at windthread
mending. Together.
We were there. In the most natural way, a time of Great Loss. We felt it and responded. Irene immediately offered her tapestry loom, Jude, a table loom and Micael, in Santa Barbara, a FLOOR LOOM that she said she would bring up to Susie in a UHaul....! all the shipping is covered. We b...
those blank journals are the mystery that questions and weaves through When Women Were Birds and makes the reading and rereading so compelling
Commented 5 days ago on journaling, part two at bee creative
journaling, part two
I am still working on my field note blanket, not however, as a daily project. Two years are documented this way, the rest is more a documentation of a moment, an observation. The blanket will be done when it is done. It is a kind of journal. A journal in that I have recorded an observation ...
(((Hazel))) the gift of Time in the not too faraway!
Commented 6 days ago on one thing at a time at handstories
one thing at a time
Chicago seems like a month ago, it was good- a nonstop whirlwind of activities. This week there has been button sewing with fifth graders. This guy tried to sew two buttons on at once, the first of many tangles. I'm grateful for the opportunity to have been with, and learned...
Ursula K Le Guin
Commented 6 days ago on that First Bird at windthread
that First Bird
one of the very first Cloths. Woven strips of stained muslin. it's hard to tell here. It's the clothes line Out Back in the old home in Polvadera. In the Desert. There were a couple more things, scraps/fragments hanging on the line, but i remember vaguely wanting them for some other ...
just read this fantastic line and needed to share it;
“The moon, second-hand, worn at the edges, was hung up in the sky like something a housewife leaves out to remind her it needs mending.”
Brothers and Sisters
The Real and the Unreal selected stories of Volume One
Where on Earth
page 5
Commented 6 days ago on that First Bird at windthread
that First Bird
one of the very first Cloths. Woven strips of stained muslin. it's hard to tell here. It's the clothes line Out Back in the old home in Polvadera. In the Desert. There were a couple more things, scraps/fragments hanging on the line, but i remember vaguely wanting them for some other ...
thank you for sharing the backstory of that First Bird
Commented 6 days ago on that First Bird at windthread
that First Bird
one of the very first Cloths. Woven strips of stained muslin. it's hard to tell here. It's the clothes line Out Back in the old home in Polvadera. In the Desert. There were a couple more things, scraps/fragments hanging on the line, but i remember vaguely wanting them for some other ...
there are thoughts and dreams drawn into half a lifetime of sketchbooks and a trunk full of big drawings. I burned everything I had done back in 1977 and started again, now I rip up anything I don't want to leave behind as it goes
Commented 7 days ago on journaling, part one at bee creative
journaling, part one
Journal page plus photo layered together to begin. And then more layers, a filter or two. + = A long row of these primroses grew at one of the houses where my grandparents lived for awhile. I was a teenager about that time. I bought this at a garden sale a couple weeks ago thinking about...
(((Liz))) thank you
Commented 7 days ago on YES!!!! Susie's got a loom again! at windthread
YES!!!! Susie's got a loom again!
Susie has her loom. And Irene has sent an additional package with accessories. From Sedona. the shipping for the loom was almost $60. i don't know about the second package. So if several of us chip in $5 it will truly be from All of Us. With huge thanks to Irene. send me an email ...
Yay for Irene sending the loom to Susie but sorry there is not even $5 spare in the bank this month!
Commented 7 days ago on YES!!!! Susie's got a loom again! at windthread
YES!!!! Susie's got a loom again!
Susie has her loom. And Irene has sent an additional package with accessories. From Sedona. the shipping for the loom was almost $60. i don't know about the second package. So if several of us chip in $5 it will truly be from All of Us. With huge thanks to Irene. send me an email ...
love how your keepers are so full of the spirits of place from your raft in the desert
Commented Apr 16, 2019 on recording. keeping track. journaling. at windthread
recording. keeping track. journaling.
some times, i will write or draw in the journal book. thinking about that today, it's when i want to Place mySelf. But really, the cloth making has become the journal. In a bin in that back room....i didn't really know what. and among other things, i found these seven Cloths that i h...
such beautiful colours and love your bumble bee story!
Commented Apr 15, 2019 on a bumble bee report + other things at bee creative
a bumble bee report + other things
One of last week's collages. I am still catching bumble bees in the house. It's happened 6 or 7 times now. Never more than one a day, not always every day. Last night the bumble bee shot up from the floor along side my bed, hit the lamp and then disappeared down under the bed. I turned off...
The Australian ceramic artist Jenny Orchard
http://jennyorchard.com/press/
writes love poems to each of her creations, this helps her understand who they are & what she has made. I draw to understand what I have made and in the drawing fleeting insights get scribbled down on the edges
Commented Apr 15, 2019 on What If ing at windthread
What If ing
So, to be ready for Jude's Next, i spent time in What If. Spent a LOT of time in Applique. Just like back when in the workshop class, What If again applies to everything. I'm thinking about what i do...cloth collage....and recently including the drawn, the graphite and ink. How it ...
(((Grace))) your eyes are so beautiful!
Commented Apr 14, 2019 on you can Believe me, addendum at bottom, then, addendum 2 at windthread
you can Believe me, addendum at bottom, then, addendum 2
i wonder sometimes about what i write here. Sometimes have second thoughts, wonder. Like last night. Should i talk about this Place?, this small metal home? my feelings about living here? or not maybe not? because it seems like some kind of hardship? When it isn't ? When it's jus...
(((Dana))) so good to see your alchemical dream safely home, I just put your beautiful words and photograph over on the new ripples post-
https://itscrowtime.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/more-ripples-of-love-as-the-pennants-and-talismans-find-their-way-home/
namaste
Commented Apr 14, 2019 on Dream returns at Raven and Sparrow
Dream returns
The tide of love has washed across the world and returned, collecting and focusing bits of imagination, design skill and artistic execution into something larger than themselves. Mo Orkiszewski (itscrowtime.wordpress.com) from Sydney Australia orchestrated this wave, sending strips of satin cu...
Puppy is very brave, that's a big bird! a wild turkey? do they make mounds for their nests like the native brush turkeys do here in the Land down Under?
Commented Apr 13, 2019 on big bird beings at windthread
big bird beings
it, he, i think, strolled up. Slow. one step, one step. I love how they go...one step, pause, one step. This is from the window here at the table. Puppy watched. for a LONG time, just watching as he came slowly. Double click to see him near the meditation swing. he continu...
(((Grace))) whenever I consider space I like to think of how the best jewellery in the world is made by the nomadic people of Africa sitting on the ground next to a fire pit
Commented Apr 12, 2019 on points of View at windthread
points of View
I made a mistake. the pics in this post are in opposite order. This was supposed to be the last. So....if you have the Will and stamina, go to the bottom, the last post, that will then progress backward, back up to this one. and at the end, i circle back. this is the ba...
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