– FINGERPRINTS –
picture taken in 2009
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– FINGERPRINTS –
picture taken in 2009
Because so many people are telling us how unpleasantly cold and windy and rainy the weather in Melbourne is….
I’ve been knitting myself a big big shawl.
I think I will be just fine then.
I am on the look out for some vacancy….soon..
This afternoon it is time for my Egghead again.
This former hard hat will be sitting in a café, working on her book. I love that! Finding silence in the midst of city’s huzzle and buzzle..
Egghead – in medias res
Former hard hat covered with hand-knitting.
Production date: 2012
Material: wool and acrylic
The Green-eyed Monster
(As green as Cupid)
Eye-ball cushion
production date: 2012
size: ca. 30 x 30 x 30 cm
technique: combination of knitting, rope making and basket weaving
material: merino wool and acrylic
dance
like a peninsula tied to my fixed existence
because this ship of the desert
is leaving for the woods again
where it ought to live from its own savanna once more
And there I am….packing…again!
Making everything ready for our trip to somewhere.
Will I find my home this time? …I do hope so..
footnote: The poem and photograph I made in 2009, but it holds perfect relevance for me again now..
Sometimes you let fear take over and things suddenly look rickety and weak.. You struggle.. The overwhelming illusion of gravity pulling you down.
– Aiyana –
Native American name for ‘forever flowering’.
drawing/collage
production date: January 2010
size: 30 x 30 cm
material: cutout digital print and pencil on paper
I took this picture, back in 2003, in one of the harbour areas of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The picture is part of my Artist’s Book ‘Tender Time Sighs‘
After not doing the dishes for two weeks, back in 2002, I found this beautiful blanket of mould in my kitchen.
The image I took/made of it, I used as an inspiration for a jacquard woven blanket in 2007.
Mould being a metaphor for when things ending or dying,
always something new comes alive. Transformation.
This was followed by a drawing/collage I made in 2010
– covering yourself with a Flower of Mould –
collage:
production date: January 2010
size: 30 x 30 cm
material: cutout digital print, pencil, acrylic paint on paper
jacquard woven blanket:
production date: 2007
size: queen size
material: mohair, cotton, acrylic, viscose, with embroidered edge
See also the ceramic jar IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE that I made in August 2014