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Heroine’s Journey Round mind’s eye through heart and hands Spiraling circling Then, now and coming: Splendor Be, Artisan, Be

My own Heroine’s Creative Journey started with simple childhood stitches on crewel work and my Girl Scout sash, to later expressing beauty through a photographic eye. I circled back to embrace stitching and dyeing of yarn and fabric. Just as in the Tree of Life, every skill, every path, produced a new growth ring. The fabric of the universe opens through me like small points of mirrored light to guide my creativity. Each time I pick up my tools, the Sacred Spirit shows up to guide my head and heart and hands.

Heroine’s Creative Journey is an appliqued, pieced, and embellished textile. It is made with hand dyed cotton fabric, naturally dyed embroidery thread, and shisha mirrors. This printed digital collage image started with original and open-source photographs, manipulated in Procreate. An appliqued and embroidered tree was added along with a series of embellished mirrors and stitched moons.

Heroine’s Creative Journey 2022 18.5” x 18.25” Art Quilt NFS goatherd@flyinggoatfarm.com www.flyinggoatfarm.com