Piece in Progress

A piece of tea-stained buckram with sumi ink, another experimental piece finding it's way to being finished. Pleating sewn with waxed linen thread, doubled, in a running stitch. Other end of the fabric rolled loosely around cotton cording, probably will be stitched in place. Process provokes again thinking about letting things work and making them work, bit of a koan. Letting, the way I'm thinking of it, seems to require continually opening to the piece and wondering, without a fixed goal, but with some result toward which to aim. I'm speculating, theorizing a divide (as in continental, say) between letting and making, recognizable to me as similar to the subtle boundary line between painting and designing, between a result and a goal. They can be very close and yet each flows toward a different ocean.