{"id":2155,"date":"2015-11-11T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2015-11-11T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:19:44","slug":"the-view-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/11\/the-view-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"The View from Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2156\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/river-runs-rrvwhole.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2156\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/river-runs-rrvwhole.jpg?resize=660%2C891\" alt=\"Russian River Valley. Looking east. iPad drawing printed large and free-motion stitched\" width=\"660\" height=\"891\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian River Valley. Looking east. iPad drawing printed large and free-motion stitched<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As some of you remember I have been working on some aerial view art quilts. I\u2019m using photo images taken from a plane to create iPad drawings then having those drawings printed large on fabric then quilting. (see these links to past posts <a href=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/31\/\">Flying High<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/12\/\">A Stitch&#8217;n Week<\/a>). I have completed a couple more of these art quilts and I\u2019m ready to share. I was pondering what to say this morning on a chilly early morning hike. As I wandered along the trail, in and out of trees and into clearings it struck me that these aerial views are of the same place I\u2019m walking but seen from a different perspective. In that same vein I\u2019ve been pondering my family relationships \u2013 specifically my relationship to my demi-adult son and my eighty-something parents. I am finding that navigating the parent\/demi-adult relationship is harder than I was expecting. How to support him and love him but let him go and make mistakes and find his own way. So my experience as the parent of a young adult has made me reflect on my own young adulthood and my relationship to my parents. I have new empathy and insight into what I put them through, how I wrestled and struggled with my self-definition and sometimes let them in but often not. So in these landscapes I am experiencing and translating the same place that I have walked through and painted again and again but from a different point of view where I can experience it anew. As I climb higher, I can now see the river carving through the valley and the hills sculpted low against the mountain and the row of trees reaching up and out. This landscape is like my own life- carving, sculpting, reaching up and out; connecting to the journey but separate from my son\u2019s journey and likewise connecting to but separate from my parents\u2019 journey. Here I am like a hawk on the wing, riding air current of my life in this unique space between beginning and end seeing each from a new point of view and grateful to catch a glimpse now and then of where I\u2019m going and where I\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2157\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/rrv-detail2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2157\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/rrv-detail2.jpg?resize=660%2C986\" alt=\"Detail of stitch\" width=\"660\" height=\"986\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of stitch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have a couple more quilts ready I&#8217;ll show you soon in another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you remember I have been working on some aerial view art quilts. 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