{"id":9533,"date":"2020-05-16T08:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2020-05-17T05:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T12:05:40","slug":"a-made-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/a-made-place\/","title":{"rendered":"a made place&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"I reread Robert Duncan&#8217;s poem &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/often-i-am-permitted-return-meadow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow<\/a>&#8221; yesterday. Found the initial stanzas very relevant to the robe I am making.\n\n<em>as if it were a scene made-up by the mind,\nthat is not mine, but is a made place,<\/em>\n\n<em>that is mine, it is so near to the heart,\nan eternal pasture folded in all thought\nso that there is a hall therein<\/em>\n\n<em>that is a made place, created by light\nwherefrom the shadows that are forms fall.<\/em>\n\n\n\nI like thinking of my robe as a place. The metaphor is enhanced by its largeness, how it spreads over my lap and everything around me when I&#8217;m stitching. I&#8217;ve had to unpick a few mistakes where I caught other parts of the garment into seams where they didn&#8217;t belong. It&#8217;s easy to do in a large piece that overflows one&#8217;s lap. I didn&#8217;t get very far before becoming aware of my mistake though. Intelligence builds in the fingertips.\n\nI&#8217;ve also reopened the book <a href=\"https:\/\/nga.gov.au\/rengetsu\/pub.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Robe, White Mist: &nbsp;Art of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Rengetsu<\/a>. I feel a kinship between this stitching project and her work in clay, calligraphy, and poetry.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9989.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9539\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9989.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9989-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reread Robert Duncan&#8217;s poem &#8220;Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow&#8221; yesterday. Found the initial stanzas very relevant to the robe I am making. as if it were a scene made-up&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[387,373,394],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stitching","tag-fantasy_robe","tag-large-cloth","tag-rengetsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","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=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9540,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions\/9540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}