Miss Lamb your busy bee of a farmer here,
As many of you know, I have a very big show coming up.
In addition, as many of you Oklahomans can attest to, spring is upon our backs my darlin dears.
I spend my early morns feeding the chickens (yes…. I made them oatmeal this morn and threw in some milo & sprouted wheat), sharing an apple with my milk cow Ohio & the donkeys Fred & Ohio, looking fondly upon the pig pasture where my 3 little bluegrass animals happily frolicked those many months ago & dreaming of the future small barn, with tiny hay loft and stalls for my future hair sheep and friendly gelding whom I have yet to meet, shall be…
But between every breath, and every other pulse, there lives my art..
My art is as important to me as my farming…in fact… there is no separation. While I am milking my cow, I am also creating art.
I know it sounds odd… but if you lived here with me at the foot of the Wichitas, it would not seem odd at all…
I have been having nightmares as of late about the show coming up. I am not necessarily scared about the show; it is just that it is a lot to take on.
5,000 Handkerchiefs…
30 Magnifying glasses…
30 Jars of my Honey…
Over 45 framed captures…
A large cedar structure (thank goodness gracious for Hugh… you are a lifesaver☺
I want to do a great job… I have been working the last year on this project, & this is a culmination of thousands of emotions and moments spent in backlit suspension.
I have nightmares of being stuck in thousands of strings and strangled by handkerchiefs….of glass on frames shattering with a touch. Of light bulbs shutting off all together.
But it is all because I love this project so much….
The instillation that has been come to known by “Girl Like An Orchard, Orchard Like A Girl” is my thought of nearly every second…. As I fall asleep it is the words, ideas and touch that traces small circles upon my skin… never-ending loops that follow the hills and hollers…
Completion with goodness is something like the question I set before my Garden…
Here you are Garden…. One in your second year… your ground is very tough, yet fertile… I have chosen not to till you deeply and quickly, but lovingly make you compost tea every day and slowly add manure back into your soil… Soil is everything my sweet garden, and I have chosen too bring you to completion..
Spending time and adding concern is an act of love…
When I think of someone who really cares about me and wants to be a part of my life, I think of how they take an interest in my everyday events… simple questions and loving answers….
This is what I do with my art & this lovely project… I ask it simple questions and procure my creativity to receive loving answers…
Which I look forward to showing you all.
Now, you may be asking yourself, what can I do to help miss Lamb..
Well, #1, you can come to Momentum OKC 2012 … & have a lovely time.
#2. You can still send me Handkerchiefs. I am shy by a few hundred more my Darlin Dears and at this point, your hankies are very needed.
#3. If you would like to come on March the 6th and help me at any point during the day hang Handkerchiefs, honey & magnifying glasses, please do so. E-mail me at earlybirdacres@gmail.com & I can tell you the details.
I send my love to each of you, a pie to your kitchen & a kiss upon your forehead,
Planting Snow Peas, swiss chard & lovely spinach,
Miss Samantha Joelle Honey Lamb
2 comments:
"I want to do a great job… "...my dear, you shall!! No worries.
I have to tell you I got a giggle, too. Part of the title of the post, "Circles Upon The Skin", had me thinking you were going to write about ringworm. :D Sorry, that's just how my mind works.
hahaha:) ring worm:) that is hilarious:) I adore you...
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