Mending as a way of drawing.
Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Darning as Metaphor
Mending as a way of drawing.
Louise Bourgeois
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Mending as a way of drawing.
Louise Bourgeois
Mending as a way of drawing.
Louise Bourgeois
23 comments:
Nice job. 8-] My attempts aren't so neat.
very nice
mending as meditation, wonderful
I'm afraid darning is beyond my capabilities - both mentally and practically! (but it IS lovely in these shots...)
So Darned beautiful, as they say. You taught me how to darn today.
i'm a darner. keeps me in socks a bit longer. this is beautiful here.
Lovely repairs
So beautiful. Have been thinking about Tikkun Olam, "repairing the world."
i have that book, it is grand. i remeber the first hole i darned. it has become second nature, my life has been so full of them. holes.
Louise looks down with a Smile
oops - you are supposed to do this stitching on the inside (wrong side) of the work -
But I love it on the outside as a kind of screen.
either way. Darning is darned beautiful on many levels. A healing stitch.
one of my favorite posts ever!
makes me want to go rip holes in some things. people, too, but that's another story for another day.
I love darning!
Recently I have been mending cardigans with contrasting thread. Much admired. But one is really wearing out and I am not sure what to do with the underarms.....
Beautiful photos! I think stitching on "the right side of the work" surface is good... why should all that hard work be invisible later? It's as if the cloth is made twice, the first weave and then the darning...
Darning is healing in many ways. And it makes the cloth more beautiful, it speaks of kindness and caring.
A neighbour of mine brought me a jar of hawberry jelly and so when I Googled for an image of the fruit your beautiful naturally dyed wools came up and this is how I found you.
Darning was once a required art yielding some of the most lovely mending samplers I have seen.
It was nice to discover you and I shall visit again.
Susan
Oh so beautiful! What amazing work. I will keep it in mind as I clumsily mend my daughter's shirt that she brought to me for fixing this evening. I will work to make it not noticeable, keeping in mind the beauty you make when you make it just noticeable. Beautiful!
"The act of sewing is a process of emotional repair." That quote is perfect for people recovering from sons' weddings! ;) I had one, too. Beautiful post. xo
There's a little Dorothy Caldwell in all of us.I remember being taught in grade school how to darn and stretching my dad's sock over a light bulb to repair the toes.
My mother showed me how to darn. She learned ir from her own mother. They needed to do it in the past for practical and economical reasons.
I don't "need" to do it for this reasons anymore but I don't want to loose this capacity of meanding, healing...
love the quotes
I used to mend all the socks when I was a child, I loved doing it and I still love darning today. I just love your work and the white darning is just beautiful.I have watched your work for a long time but never had the guts to comment before.
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