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The traveling eye 7: Ruins

3/13/2015

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"The eye has to travel."
          Diana Vreeland

The eye has to travel 
when it's been immersed in the darkness of winter.
When snow didn't come in the way snow comes,
          and couldn't brighten in the way it brightens 
          (because damn if that snow didn't go dump itself elsewhere),

          and the retinas need searing technicolor.

Walls of it.

Amy Meissner, Mexican embroidery, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

Mountains of it.

Amy Meissner, Mexican embroidery, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins
Amy Meissner, Mexican embroidery, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

Sheets of it.

Amy Meissner, Mexican embroidery, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins
Amy Meissner, Mexican embroidery, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

Did I mention the walls of it?

Amy Meissner, Mexican embroidery, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

The eye has to travel because when darkness reaches that unbearable point, in the way darkness does, the eye becomes sluggish. 
Drowsy.
Lazy.
It stops seeing the obvious.

Amy Meissner, Tulum, Mexico, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

And goes deep inside itself. 

Amy Meissner, Tulum, Mexico, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins
Amy Meissner, Tulum, Mexico, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins
Amy Meissner, Tulum, Mexico, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins
Amy Meissner, Tulum, Mexico, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

And it forgets that the greater part of seeing 
is to stop constantly looking down at one's own work,

Amy Meissner, textile artist, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins

and to instead, 
look up and be in awe of someone else's.
Someone who is doing more work
         
          for less
          
          with less.

Amy Meissner, Tulum, Mexico, from the post The traveling eye: Ruins. www.amymeissner.com/blog/the-traveling-eye-7-ruins
5 Comments
sita
3/13/2015 03:01:32 pm

love all the fabulous quilts

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Olga link
3/14/2015 03:38:17 am

Down Mexico way?

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Amy Meissner link
3/14/2015 06:56:54 am

Si Señora, gracias for reading & commenting!

Heading home soon....

XO Amy

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Leigh-Anne van der veen link
3/15/2015 07:33:07 pm

Stunning colours

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Roxanne Lasky link
3/18/2015 02:56:21 am

Yes,
Amy, we tend to look down, especially toward one's feet when risk of tripping is imminent. There is so much further to gaze upward. What a profound and poetic thought for today and everyday. Thank you.

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