Four of Anna Torma's embroideries were included in the Material Connections exhibition curated by Amanda McCavour. Three of them are on the upper level of the gallery, each about 38" square.
I was inspired by my children's early drawings, when they were very young and the communication between us based on signs, drawings, body language, guessing and empathy. I loved that early age, when they were " languageless": before they learned the verbal communication. Their life was full with playfulness, highly charged emotions and lot of learning. The mutual understanding between us was complete without verbality. This experience always reminds me the importance of sensuality, love and empathy, which can over arch our verbal existence.
Anna Torma (from her website)
Part of the World of Threads festival, this exhibition continues until December 16.
8 comments:
what fun, what reverie! more and more i realize how limiting words are, how much vocabulary gets in the way of and limits something that's actually boundless. i like this one.
i would need hours to look properly at this piece.
thanks for sharing such exquisite detailed work..in stitches in quilting... am very impressed.
anna's work is new to my eyes, and how rich. i love how her experience with her children and communication is the well for this work.
I love Anna's work. Thanks for sharing some images I haven't seen before.
A joy plays through from these colors and lines, and perhaps touches the child (within); but these lines, as much as I love the work, this quote's ending, "The mutual understanding between us was complete without verbality. This experience always reminds me the importance of sensuality, love and empathy, which can over arch our verbal existence."
I love this place
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thanks for clarifying when your work will be in Virginia and which Virginia. I got my A's and B's mixed up (in more ways than one). :)
This has make me thought about my relationship with lines as a visual "tool" (I know it is not the proper word, but I can't fing it in English). When I was a painter, I used to work with thick brushstrokes, more than with lines. I came to be more conscious about it when I started to sew and embroider. Now, that I am drawing again I work with lines mostly.
Anna's work is such an inspiration.
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