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?
Textural joy over floor patch: KALA Institute in Berkeley, field trip with members of Critical Ground |
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.
Perhaps it's time to re-tune your guitar, a form of repair to harmony.
Or, re-purpose a sturdy bike spoke to re-handle a broom (years ago) |
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
No knife is too serrated or dilapidated for this craftsman |
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.
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.
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