for our grand daughters
stretching and smoothing with my hands instead of ironing
that's ok
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
prayer flag for Canada
for our grand daughters
stretching and smoothing with my hands instead of ironing
that's ok
for our grand daughters
stretching and smoothing with my hands instead of ironing
that's ok
A beautiful tribute, will you quilt this?
ReplyDeleteI don't think so Tina.
ReplyDeleteI like that it can be affected by a breeze.
I like that you can see both sides of the embroidery.
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Perfect!
ReplyDeleteThe bleeding adds yet another dimension and a very poignant one, given the context. It's a beautiful piece, Judy.
ReplyDeleteI love this beautiful prayer flag and I love too that it bled. It reminds me of a womansong with the lyrics: deep is the ocean, deep is the sea, the water is as dark as blood that flows (flowed) from me. XO
ReplyDeleteIt looks so fabulous in the breeze on the washing line and the whole meaning of it is so thought provoking
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ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/J3ukRUZV6Ks
One more time
ReplyDelete"Something About the Women"
by Holly Near
https://youtu.be/J3ukRUZV6Ks
deeply moving and so wonderfully beautiful
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteA moving tribute ... on so many levels. Thank you so much for sharing its becoming here.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful and moving. The bleeding only adds to the compassionate quality of the piece and thoughts of womens struggles.
ReplyDeleteIt has so much meaning. I love it hanging in the breeze.
ReplyDeleteThe piece is perfect!
It's beautiful Judy, bleeding and all. By the way, I found a copy of Quilt National 2011. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. It makes me happy to own it.
ReplyDeletered crossing white, so poignantly visceral & healing, I love how you do this!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a red tent..............like it very much......
ReplyDeletePerfect..
ReplyDeletebeautiful.
ReplyDeleteQuite a loaded piece. It has the aspect of church vestments. A central cross figure composed of mandala like elements, the wholeness of self. Perhaps even a shroud. The cutting away of the backing cloth, though not entirely understood, has something of a scarification to it, especially with the scissors. And then there is red. If blue is for the soul as Matisse thought then red acts on passion. It's use is to command the viewers attention. Other the white it's were the eye goes. Crushed insect bodies, pulverized earth/rock or mashed roots it is a life source. And the action of your handling the cloth to make it take form, reshaping completes the journey of the red thread first knotted and pulled. A umbilical cord.
ReplyDeleteSacrifice not scarification but both might work.
ReplyDeleteI only removed the cloth that lined the hankies so as to allow them to remain a single layer of cloth, and still shine sheerly.
ReplyDeleteThe cross shape is very human - one can imagine that the heart is at the centre where the horizontal and verticals meet.
Red and white is one of my most favourite classical colour-ways, because it can read almost any way the viewer wants it to - nearly every emotion can be stirred.
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Wonderful on so many levels
ReplyDeleteJust stunning, Judy !
ReplyDeleteLOve that you 'ironed' by hand (I often do with my water-soluble pieces, once washed and blocked ... works wonderfully;))
Like the bleeding, too ... a statement.
wow mom
ReplyDeletewe bleed together