i can't tell you how many ecoprints

i've made,

on paper, mostly

but on textiles, too.

ecoprints for caliban press

this morning's work

i can only say that it's a lot.

this has been my pattern,

make as many variations on a theme as i can think of.

then move on.

miniature tapestries, igolochkoys, small editions of booklets

yarn (oh, how much wool i spun)

my hands love making these things.

there are processes i don't like: felt making is not for me.

there are others that continue to compel me:

pulling sheets of paper

spinning a thread

sewing a seam

plain weave.

just plain weave.

plain weave is enough to weave a life around and through.

~~~

there are related things my hands only liked doing,

ripping out a seam

braiding my horse's mane for a show

folding paper

nailing a board.

all liked well enough.

(indigo on shifu and daylily paper, and habu paper, spun)
~~~
but i have always been grateful for my small,
serviceable,
one tendon repaired,

beginning to be arthritic

hands

and the things they know.