Stripes

Synchronicity:
Listen to this!

Stripes were my premier
knitting thought for the day
when we left for Saratoga
with a first stop
at Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
at Skidmore College.

STRIPES
An exhibition of stripes
as an a art form is on show
from August 4- December 30, 2007.

"As visual language, they conjure
a multiple of contradictory meanings..."

Prisoners, clowns, artists wear stripes.
Generals wear stripes.

Stripes are vertical or horizontal.

My favorite work:
a huge canvas with
stripes of red satin ribbon--
long vertical bars--overlaid
on newsprint articles
slavery themed.

In November
there will be a screening
of "Spellbound" starring
Gregory Peck as a imposter
psychoanalyst with a fear
of stripes.

So, today,
I have stripes on the brain.
They are just everywhere.

I plan to
knit my stripes
in the round
and practice neat jogs
and count all the ways
to use stripes in knitting.