I wrote at the beginning of the year that I want to focus my work in the coming year, concentrating on developing the series inspired by thoughts of home.

I am always stirred by images of a home. When I consider the homes I have lived in, the households where I have been a member, there are threads of connections between them.

I want to pull on those threads and see where they go.

Part of this process is thinking about the visual depiction of the homes.

Part of it is being open to the memories and their meaning.

A thing that often happens when I start to turn my attention to a particular subject: I discover poetry that speaks to me on that subject.

I love these words, which I discovered this week.

And these, which I re-discovered this week.

I love the sense of discovery and involvement with the memory in Maggie Smith’s words.

And I love the sense of knowing he is in the place he should be in the words of Wendell Berry. (Berry is a beautiful and thoughtful poet, and the image of a house is the foundation of many of his works.)

The light in the window in the image that I used in this post’s header is very powerful to me. It’s a detail from “Living in the house of Blue Shadows,” a memory-inspired quilt I created last year. It is among the most personal and introspective works I have created.

I am thrilled that it has found a home with a very wonderful patron.

Perhaps, for her, it will also become a book she can read again and again, dog-earing different pages each time.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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