Ms Uncertainty Principles: "August" by Grace Forest

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

GRACE FOREST MAESTAS

2016

"August" This cloth lived here for awhile on loan a year or so ago, Then went back to it's maker, Grace Forest in New Mexico. Today it was returned to me as a gift.
~*~

Hand written letter

12. 16. 2017

"The drive took hours - Straight through, stopping only for gas. Smooth, arriving here, pulling the horse trailer up, then the Doe boat - positioning them, making a passage way out and into the gates with cattle prod. They F L O W E D out, into this Forest ---as if it were completely foreordained. Tay runs FREE. Tazmeena is spending her days just inside the travel trailer...so far.
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12.17. 2017

Today is a week! We are still figuring out, heat, running water. There are leaks, drained batteries, etc. but we make headway.

More--there are walks down into the forest with goats and Tay, kids and us. A whirl of Intention.This place is so Beyond Beauty Full. A real Forest. beauty-full and Full of Love. I am SO glad we had the courage. Blog it if you can and Love to all there. Peace Be."

~*~

One Musical Favorite of Hers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-16VK4dwuI

Her Last Blog Post

http://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2017/12/ok-just-going.html

Mailing Address
Grace Maestas
P.O. Box 968
Oroville, California 95965

Oroville California
Oroville is positioned off of Highway 70 and is in close proximity to Highway 99, which connects Butte County with Interstate 5, which travels the length of California. Oroville is approximately 65 miles north of Sacramento, the California State Capitol. Oroville is a good 2.5 hours from the San Francisco Bay Area and Reno.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville,_California

Sunday, September 28, 2014

"AUGUST" is TRAVELING

KINDLY DO NOT SHARE WITHOUT PERMISSION

"August"
by Grace Forest

She traveled from New Mexico, arriving in New York 'on loan' in early September rolled in this note:
"Don't send back until you've had your fill, and when that time
comes, maybe even not then~wait. Take her around
this August Being...a good long journey."

Looking At Her
Here are all the shots I've taken of her so far
(in different light and with different settings):
9.8

closer

9.11

Two eyes

grass

9.12

Near the window

closer

9.14

Near the French doors

Details

Today

For now she protects the apartment...

I plan to carry her with me to Massachusetts in October,
to photograph her there, and will add on when I return.
~*~

Looking Back

In reverse order through the month of her becoming
using 'Windthread' posts back to her origin.
(the pictures and words are Grace Forests')

28th

But mostly, it was this. I tried a while, to use that other scrap of cloth for Her.

I wanted to because it was so Soft and so how i remember the Feeling of her,

that Biggest Lizard of All (that i haven't seen since) (maybe soon, again)

but it just wasn't working. So i began again and this is good.

Except for her left leg, the legs and arms are pretty much ok.

I have to wait to do the hands and feet till the grass seed stems are in place.

The hands and feet need to be just exactly right. As they ARE on lizards. .... Wild Lizards as the kids used to call them.....wild lizards.

That makes me smile.

26th

i began the Lizard. Worked a while then gave up.
It's not an end of the day kind of work....the cloth that i think i Need for her is soft and difficult to stitch without creating folds and Lizard does not have folds and ripples, is smooth, taut. Will wait. but i did begin.

24th
AUGUST is a space, a time, repeating, year after year. We name this time August. I wonder what other cultures call this time, when it is a moment of All of It....growth/the beginning of decay.......it is such an intense time to me, since a child, that it is as if it is a BEING. Maybe the only space in the roll of a Year that seems this way to me. The She of August holds all that has come before and all that might come of that. August is Everything.

22nd
the Grasses came today

21st

rummaging through the scraps i found this. Took off the lizard.
This....is somehow IT. But i don't know how to "pull it in".

so i took it off.
Did This, which is also "true".

but, This. somehow, This is just what it Is....August.

so i look. and as i look here,

it occurs to me that maybe somehow there could be both?????

18th

And while cooking, i asked self....Grace,...what IS it that you want right now? What IS IT that would give you some Space?????? and Funny......,

i walked over and looked....well...
That Self that always knows what's going on had been one jump ahead...
Because the answer to that question was:
just to get OUT of my head for a while....