{"id":8755,"date":"2019-06-23T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:10:42","slug":"the-benevolent-sower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/the-benevolent-sower\/","title":{"rendered":"The benevolent sower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7203.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8754\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7203.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7203-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This figure has evolved a lot. I removed her circular face and the orange headdresses became giving wings.<\/p>\n<p>I added a paired piece of that purple floral patterned fabric, so it would match the other figures&#8217; faces.<\/p>\n<p>Then I stalled for quite a few days. A trip to Connecticut and New York. Recognition or reconnection with the art of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Home to a weedy garden and a sense of disorientation. Finished reading Cherr\u00c3\u00ade Moraga&#8217;s <em>Native Country of the Heart<\/em> &#8211; mesmerizing.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting this morning that what holds me up can be a problem with courage. I become afraid of making a misstep. I dwell in that uncertainty and it is immobilizing.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I stitched the eyes. And a mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Today I removed the mouth and added the ivory stitching under the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Cloth and thread are malleable and missteps can be taken again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This figure has evolved a lot. I removed her circular face and the orange headdresses became giving wings. I added a paired piece of that purple floral patterned fabric, so it would match the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,150],"tags":[38,380],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-stitching","tag-jude-hill","tag-patchwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}