Way Ahead Threads: embroidery

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December 15, 2007

That face, that beautiful face

When I made a quilt for my grandson Joe this year, I decided to include JT, one of his family's horses.

This is the block very near completion.

Here's the thing about hand quilting, hand embroidery, etc. : the more you do of it on a piece, the more you need to do... The law of diminishing returns is NOT in operation; the more stitches added, the better.

November 29, 2007

Love You--Mean It

I took a photography class this fall to better document scenes around Beargrass Creek and to improve the photos I take of art.

I just noticed I forgot to use the tripod when I took this photo.

You've heard the phrase "a work in progress"? It applies to art, to blogs, to life.

"Love You --Mean It" is approximately 9 x 12 and is hand-stitched and hand-embroidered.

Artist Statement

In 2005, a ruling of the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church upheld a local pastor in his decision to refuse church membership to a person because that person was/is gay. Learning of the Council's decision, I, as a matter of conscience, cut all ties* with the United Methodist Church, including the bonds of ordination.

In 2008, I started deconstructing (literally) a copy of my 2003 memoir Grace and making it into mail art. I've recently realized that tearing my book to shreds was in part an act of frustration brought on by the Judicial Council ruling, which made the book historical nonfiction rather than contemporary reality.

Everything I said in the book about love remains true. However, the things I said about the United Methodist Church's theology and polity -- how, for instance, we believe in prevenient grace and that God, rather than any individual pastor, leads and allows people into membership -- are now false.

This blog and my art are a call to the UMC to remember its heritage, mission, and ministry; to renounce its apostasy from its theological heritage; and to return to being a church rather than a country club for the supposed elite.

This blog and my art are also a shout of welcome to friends and a space of comfort and joy for the dechurched, the nonchurched, and the churched of all shapes and sizes and sexes and textures.

*except the ties of friendship with people who as a matter of conscience remain within the UMC and there work toward reformation

Way Ahead Threads

December 15, 2007

That face, that beautiful face

November 29, 2007

Love You--Mean It

Resources

Fabulous Feminist Links, some of which are explicit