I started some new work. It was a bit of a surprise; I didn’t see it coming.
Sometimes it just happens that way. Your hands know what they need to do and the brain is a bit slow to catch up.
It’s partly inspired by these words, by Pierre Janet:
“Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.”
It will be rolled up on a wooden bobbin, eventually, as a life that unfurls.
Much of the stitching is beneath the surface but still visible through the translucent layers.
At this point I don’t want to say too much more about it. For now, I’m listening to what it has to say and thinking about where it might be going.
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Oh! I love this!!! It speaks to life itself and all that is just beneath what we allow the world to know of us……
thank you 🙂
That is so beautiful, so moving
thanks so much
I love this – cuddly & clear -Where do you get your spools?Sent from my iPad
thank you, I’m afraid I can’t remember, I’ve had them ages. You can probably find them online if you search thread spools or factory bobbins.
I really love this Karen! And I understand that feeling of your hands just doing and your brain catching up!
ha, happens all the time 🙂
I’m sure it will tell you what it wants in due course. And – reassurance perhaps – as I’ve been working on pulling the Amarna pieces together into a book, I’ve discovered that even though I wasn’t precisely sure about my overarching story, nothing I did contradicted it. Trust yourself, trust your own work, and I don’t believe it will lead you astray.
thank you, yes, it will all turn out the way it wants to. I’m enjoying spending time with it.
I empathise with the need for your hands to stitch intuitively. When what is within my subconscious emerges spontaneously, the outcome always amazes me: it is a kind of alchemy!
magic 😊
That is beautiful Karen, a different way of expressing with embroidery ❤️ love to watch how it evolves.
thanks so much Martine
I had to look up Tabula Rasa to see what it meant. Very liberating to begin something entirely different & to see where it leads. Enjoy the journey. We will enjoy seeing what transpires.
thank you Ann, I’m enjoying this one
Intriguing and definitely beautiful.
thanks so much, Erica.