In-Town Retreat

Tomorrow, the new moon, in-town retreat begins. It will go from new moon to new moon–a lunation. This lunation in the Celtic tree calendar is the month of the reed, ngetal, the Celtic translation. See Nancy Passmore's Lunar Calendar for a description and get yourself one!
Retreat theme: SIMPLY NOT IGNORING. Aspirations: revitalize drawing & painting fluency; restore the connection to meditation; engage the aesthetic life; discover how The Art of War, African American quilts, improvisation, dynamic symmetry, Greek architecture affect understanding space>pictorial space; practice writing, another fluency practice.


Already dynamic symmetry (see works by Jay Hambidge from early 1900s) is influencing the quilt patch project. Above the Tents of Armageddon square is supplemented with another small rectangle in the proportion of the "rectangle of the whirling squares." The diagram of the rectangle (above) is from The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry by Hambidge.

The smaller rectangles of cloth are from another supply of fabric that has been around the studio for years. Here they are:


A question: will all the fabric patterns one collects & really likes work together? Stay tuned.