embracelets

i've been making these 'friendship bracelets' since i was about ten years old. in the past few years it has been a more frequent practice. this period began on the plane from vancouver to london, when i went to europe in the summer of 2007. re-approaching this craft in a new situation, i had the idea there on the plane that i don't have to follow any pre-determined pattern, or to create any repeating pattern at all. a design can just be improvised the whole way along and come out quite beautifully. so this is the way i've been making them ever since. the approach relates to my spirituality and philosophies on life... we can choose at any moment what we want to create out of the situation we are presented with. two strings come together and we must choose which one will be the dominant, and which the passive. but even when one is dominant, both exist, and are essential, in the material that results from tying them together. in another circumstance the one that was passive previously may become dominant. an important part of it for me is just to embrace what is going on in the moment and not be attached to any particular result.









here i am working on one next to my niece, Morgen, who is learning the basic technique.

more bracelets!