Dear ones,
Do you allow yourself to stop and wonder why, how? We certainly HOPE so. This week Art Ranger has trained her lens on
Repair, both the notion and the visual evidence. Do you have some repair to share?
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| Textural joy over floor patch: KALA Institute in Berkeley, field trip with members of Critical Ground |
After decades of earth loving consciousness, composting, and thrift store shopping, there is ever more to consider regarding reducing and re-using. Especially after listening to
Yvon Chouinard talk about his business: a man who has forged and invented his life, pioneering in contrast to bogus excess and exploitation.
How refreshing! The light bulb was further lit inside of us about trying to make things last. Never again shall we purchase those plastic (Target) hangers that break and die in lazy refuse crap heaps.
re-pair, put back together, a physical remembering, literally re member, get back in touch with it's whole. Perhaps even strengthened by such attention
If you care, we must learn more ways to extend, to renew
to REpair, or to mend, we dare you to darn
Heck, we figure we can fix our broken clay bread cloche by using the sourdough itself, since historically the stubborn sticky stuff has used to patch buildings.
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| Named Darlene |
Letting the repair bake in right alongside the bread.
Perhaps it's time to re-tune your guitar, a form of repair to harmony.
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| Or, re-purpose a sturdy bike spoke to re-handle a broom (years ago) |
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| From the series, Moments in Fencing |
Repair, the verb "repare" in French means to return to your country of origin, homing in ....
Or, rehone, refine, and re-enjoy your knives. Nothing lends itself so well to renewal as a good knife in the hands of the smiling man named Chad at the farmers market:
Restoration Edge
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| No knife is too serrated or dilapidated for this craftsman |
Sometimes the thing you love most is the more worn, threadbare, re-repaired one because it's survived with you and recorded your actions through its softness, meanings gathered in its wounds and weaves rubbed on rock faces remembered by gripping (for life) knee bones.
Even when they've become men, a mother can still be leaned on to perform useful, unglamorous stitches learned as a Girl Scout, aged eleven.
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| Man in parallelogram with rock and tree with Man-with-dog |
With will and determination, one can even repair identities, souls, friendships, insides ....
Now to share
a collaborative art work by some kind, fierce women, called
ToDo Mending : our favorite (social practice) art of recent (healing needing) months as they've beautifully addressed this thoughtful and metaphorical type of repair.
Have a reparable if not remarkable week as we all trundle along, and it would be dear of you to send evidence to: homelandinspiration@gmail.com.
A lone bone helps remind us to dance avidly and eat plants
