some ideas to share

First, here is an article about master basketweavers in Rwanda, who are experiencing healing and forgiveness as they work on baskets for sale in America.

Second, here are some ideas for materials a friend sent me: rice feed bags (UN rations, anyone?), plastic bags (albeit now overdone), trokosi fabric [fabric worn by women shrine slaves in Ghana, where my friend worked last summer]... these are the "people" I have been thinking about. Representational prayers?

I have also been thinking a lot about my hometown, Baltimore, with both sad and happy materials one could use to create a prayer (bullet casings, crab shells, crack vials, stones from different neighborhoods...). I am considering going on a little scavenger hunt of sorts, combining all found materials and then gold-leafing them, or casting them in resin.

I'm currently working on a larger beaded crochet bowl, which will hopefully be quite beautiful. I have one completed bowl in delicate wire of the Lord's prayer, but I have yet to take a good picture of it. It's quite a difficult object to photograph.