“Purple Wonder” Coat #1 in Bohemia Esprit Market’s Sisterhood of the Traveling Dreamcoat

Posted: August 13th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Market Mumblings | Tags: 1000 Markets, Bohemia Esprit Market, Charity, Coat #1, collaborative project, Dreamcoat, On Slender Threads, Purple Wonder, quiet | No Comments »

Have you ever argued with a coat, a Dreamcoat at that? Let me tell you the Dreamcoat will win!

There were lots of starts and stops—lots of knots—lots of hanging to give listening time as the ribbons and beads waited. Once a random rainbow blessed her. And still we waited. Finally it was time, as if by magic, all the small parts flowed into their simple function on the existing Dreamcoat.

The knotted ribbon yoke (ribbons reminding that life is gift, a ribbon yoke reminding the wearer that she is gift) encircles the front edges hanging freely across the back. The ribbons dance in the colors of the earth touching sunrise outer coat which mark the intersection in which we live-feet on earth, head in sky. The coat interior is a silken symbolic lining that embraces with a soul tapestry of strong woman naming her holes, her life learnings, handworking each into illuminating qualities that glisten through her being echoing onto her surface. I chose not to bind the sides allowing the tender lining to peep through because Dreamcoat #1 sings freedom. From the six points of the draping hemline hang freeform quartz beads with tiny crystal and copper beads holding space for life’s dualities-those light and dark spots that cause one to stretch one’s being. It’s said that quartz has the ability to bring stars to earth.

And now I understand why Nietzsche’s words played a mantra in my head. “One must have chaos in one’s self in order to give birth to a dancing star.” Ah, freedom!

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photographs taken in my garden–some under the star tree which hangs above a favorite swing (a choice moon watching spot!)

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