in which the river strengthens its spell

work from my residency by the river shows no sign of slackening

during the day i am a happy participant in Sandra Brownlee's class

working on Tactile Notebooks

my personal therapist sleeping next to me on the stoop

before and after class hours

[besides a spot of cooking]

i sort fragments, draw and write.

some of the drawing takes place in mud

i have been working on a short film together with Tracey McConnell-Wood

that is to say, Tracey is actually doing the real work [of filming]

and recording sound

while

i wander in and out of shot.

last night i stitched and dyed until late

so that this evening

we had something to unbundle by the water

the sky was absolutely fabulous

[and the dress that came out of the dyepot fits me]

this beautiful object is a steel drum

made by Jason Shearer here in Newburgh.
the dress was bundled around it in the dyepot

[if you'd like to buy a drum like that, please send a message with your contact details via the contact page on my website and i shall forward it to him]