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Winter Willow

1/12/2016

 
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Some yeas I sort by color -- so orderly!
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Willowikins in the studio, getting ready for a sweater exhibition
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A good time was had by all at the show
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The colors just slay me
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Hard to photograph this fiddler
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Weaving legs? Oh dear.
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PictureOld Time Trio. Or is it Bluegrass? No -- didn't make a mandolin. Pardon the poor photo -- digital photography has improved a touch since I made these musicians.

These photos show a few of the willow people I've made in the last decade or two.
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Some have gone to to fund-raising auctions.

Others I've given away.

And a few have ended up outside my house
serenading passers-by until the time came
to retire to the woods
 to hang out with birds and coyotes 
and other shrubby things like themselves.
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This year, the brown willow outside my house was really tall
so I decided to make something I could go inside.
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Is this actually going to turn into something?
Yanking grape vines out of our lilac bushes nearly tore my arms out of their sockets--
each was so long I could spiral it around the entire structure
​ and pin it into place with lengths of red osier dogwood.
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I don't quite know what to say about this little time machine--
or staycation hut, or bird watching blind, or whatever it is--
except that I wish all of you could hang out in it for a little while too. ​
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Next week it'll go off to a fund raising auction at the Pritchard Gallery in Moscow
leaving a big hole (or free space) in my studio.
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Can't get enough of these shadows.
Till then, I'll hang out in it as much as I can.
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I do love Winter Willow.
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It changes the way I see everything.
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PS: The ATA Blog Tour continues:
Tomorrow (Wednesday 13 January 2016) = Mirrix! 
Bonnie Klatt link
1/12/2016 03:25:52 pm

You are a wonder with willow! So enjoy seeing your willowkins...and sweaters, and... Unfortunately, our willow doesn't come in such colors back here. :(

Valerie Musselman link
1/13/2016 09:45:18 am

as a kid I had an imaginary friend.....your willow people take that concept to a whole new level!!

Love them!!

Sarah
1/13/2016 03:15:43 pm

Thank you Valerie. And yes, I think they are like imaginary friends in physical form. Whenever I start one there is this huge question mark -- what/ who is this? And then the form starts to emerge as though the willow know all along what/ who it was going to be. Wild. But then there is a lot of energy in those wippy withies.

Susan White link
1/13/2016 10:29:09 am

You amaze me. I love your fresh creativity!

Sarah
1/13/2016 03:17:03 pm

Thank you Sue! That means a lot coming from you. I had such a grand time looking for and at your work at the 30/30/ 30 exhibition. The best of treasure hunts.

Lynn Somerstein link
1/28/2016 01:41:16 pm

I love this-- thank you so much for publishing the pictures with your lovely commentary.


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