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According to an ancient Chinese legend, an invisible red thread connects those who are destined lovers, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
I have wanted to take this picture for ever now and I am so happy I finally got to do it! This took forever to set up/take down, and we were covered in sweat and bug bites by the time we were done, but Cody really helped me so much with this, I couldn't have set it up without him. He's perfect, and that's why I made this picture. To remind him that through all my travels, our string may stretch for thousands and thousands of miles, but it will never break. For my red stringed soul mate. I love you.
A series inspired by Libe Goitia Artetxe's poetry book Fast Fatum
Model: Lara Elisabeth Goikoetxea
Film: LomoChrome Purple
(noun) The inability to verbalize emotions or lack of emotional response. Difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotion. A failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally require an emotional response. Poor modulation of feelings, significantly reduced intensity in emotional expression.
adding comments with the sewing machine while reading Rainer Maria Rilke "Letters to a Young Poet"
mit der Nähmaschine beim Lesen Anmerkungen in Rainer Maria Rilkes "Briefe an einen jungen Dichter" genäht
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #10.
I opened my cedar chest to see if I could find the doll quilt that my mother made for me when I was a child, but it's apparently buried pretty deep. So we're going with the quilt on the top, Prism Star, a variation of the broken star pattern. I love this, it's such lovely bright colors. This is most of 1/4 of the quilt, which is bound and quilted in red.
Bored in Albuquerque, NM, while on a business trip, I found this sewing kit in my hotel room...
A sewing needle is a long slender tool with a pointed tip. The first needles were made of bone or wood; modern ones are manufactured from high carbon steel wire, nickel- or gold plated for corrosion resistance. The highest quality embroidery needles are made of platinum. Traditionally, needles have been kept in needle books or needle cases which have become an object of adornment.
A needle for hand sewing has a hole, called the eye, at the non-pointed end to carry thread or cord through the fabric after the pointed end pierces it. Hand sewing needles have different names depending on their purpose.
Needle size is denoted by a number on the packet. The convention for sizing is that the length and thickness of a needle increases as the size number decreases. For example, a size 1 needle will be thicker and longer, while a size 10 will be shorter and finer.
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/2.8, 0.006 sec (1/160), ISO 100, 100 mm
adding comments with red thread as i read through "Aphorisms on love and hate" by Friedrich Nietzsche from Penguin Classics
machine stitching in book with short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. The first story being "The Tell-Tale Heart"
altered newspaper. "Glücks-Atlas" (Happiness Atlas) was the main headline of Abendzeitung 8 Nov 2017
veränderte Zeitungen (Abendzeitung 16.10. und 8.11.2017).
"Glücks-Atlas" war der Aufmacher der Abendzeitung am 8.11. 2017. 118 x 88 cm
part of a monthly newspaper transformation process that involves a newspaper, usually the sewing machine, water and full moon energy. this time with the German business newspaper Handelsblatt of Aug 14th and the full moon energy of Aug 15th.
59/365 Caged.
Never wake up your mad dogs if you cannot tame them.
Uprisen by Liebknecht - Smoke (instrumental).
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[...] He is something of himself, from the most precious he has, he gives something of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for others - but that it gives him something of what is alive in him, he gives him something of his joy, his interest, his understanding of his knowledge, of its humor, of his sadness - of everything that is alive in him. By the other in this way gives something of his life, he enriches him, he increases the other the feeling of being alive, reinforcing the feeling of being alive in itself is.[...]
Er gibt etwas von sich selbst, vom Kostbarsten was er besitzt, er gibt etwas von seinem Leben. Das bedeutet nicht unbedingt, dass er sein Leben für den anderen opfert - sondern, dass er ihm etwas von dem gibt, was in ihm lebendig ist; er gibt ihm etwas von seiner Freude, von seinem Interesse, von seinem Verständnis, von seinem Wissen, von seinem Humor, von seiner Traurigkeit - von allem, was in ihm lebendig ist. Indem er dem anderen auf diese Weise etwas von seinem Leben abgibt, bereichert er ihn, steigert er beim anderen das Gefühl des Lebendigseins und verstärkt damit dieses Gefühl des Lebendigseins auch in sich selbst.
Source: Erich Fromm "Die Kunst des Liebens" (German Version)
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Wikipedia: ||The Art of Loving || Erich Fromm ||
i finished connecting the "Divine Comedy" to a new fabric. The three long panels will be unrolled in the upcoming exhibition in Freising.
recycelte Mythen, zusammengerollt. Die letzten Seiten meiner Ausgabe der "Göttlichen Komödie" sind verarbeitet. Die drei langen Bahnen werden der kommenden Ausstellung "Papier. Los!! im Alten Gefängnis, Freising entrollt. Vernissage am 26.1. um 19 Uhr.
I love buttons for the variety of colours, textures, shapes and sizes that they come in. I decided to use some of my favorite buttons in an altered book. More about this altered book with further detail shots on my blog.
exploring paper with the sewing machine ... this one looks like a caterpillar
Versuche mit Papier und Nähmaschine. Vielleicht eine Raupe?
Papier aus: Dante, Göttliche Komödie
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"I'm bleeding out
Said if the last thing that I do
Is to bring you down
I'll bleed out for you
So I bear my skin
And I count my sins
And I close my eyes
And I take it in
And I'm bleeding out
I'm bleeding out for you"
-Imagine Dragons
My emotions are bleeding out of me all the time. Sometimes they are constant sometimes not. If you really knew what I was thinking, then you would truly know how I feel about everything in this world. Songs inspire me to take photographs and make them. I used red thread to signify blood in my own way.
One of the three thread drawings that I did for the Threads of Meaning exhibition at the Chapel Gallery in Ormskirk.
All three of the pieces are based on ideas around codes and lost languages - I wanted them to look like some sort of writing that you couldn't quite decode.
You can find out more about my art on my website.
As early as in 1973 Niki de Saint Phalle made a contribution to the city’s understanding of modern Art when the three Nanas, which were still very controversial at that time, were placed beside the river “Am Hohen Ufer”. Despite her international career, she had a special love of Hannover and bequeathed almost 400 works to the city, which made her an honorary citizen in 2000.
Hannover (Lower Saxony) Germany Europe
This is the journal quilt that I made in May. Each month this year I've been making a miniature quilt (this one is about 9" x 12").
Some new things I did with this quilt:
- French knots (finally learned how to do these!)
- Sewing with transparent thread on the fish and turtles
- Machine quilted the majority of the quilt - all the layers are machine-sewn along the edges. The fish, turtles, shells, and book are hand-sewn onto the quilt.
- Using bias tape - up until this point I've just cut the backing about an inch or so bigger than the front and wrapped it around. Used bias tape this month for a more finished edge.
Symbolism of the quilt:
- My trip to Texas - visited Sea Turtle, Inc. (a rescue and rehabilitation facility for sea turtles); collected some shells from the Gulf of Mexico (3 of the shells I found are hand-sewn onto the journal quilt); and explored South Padre Island (the largest barrier island in the world, of which the majority is undeveloped).
- Finished teaching a crafting for charity class to homeschoolers. We used bias tape for making pillowcase dresses for girls who are orphans in Africa.
- Mother's Day - did blue French knots on one fish to represent my mom (blue is her favorite color). Also chose 7 different fabrics for the water since I gave her 7 gifts (one to open daily from Mother's Day and for the next 6 days).
- Being a Mom - My daughters are adopted from China and there's a proverb that says: "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break." I hand-stitched red lines onto the two turtles' backs.
Also chose one of the fabrics in the water that had purple and green (my two favorite colors); and made purple French knots on one of the fish.
- Visit from a friend - My friend, his wife, and their dog visited in the middle of May. We went to Koi Acres and saw hundreds of beautiful koi - from tiny ones to ones that were over 2 1/2 feet long. The two fish in the journal quilt represent the nice time we had together.
- Completion of Homeschooling for the Year - Finished homeschooling the girls for 1st and 3rd grade. The book on the beach in the quilt represents the many books we read and all the interesting information we learned during the past year.
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A color copy of the quilt and a description of the symbolism behind the quilt was sent to two partners for a swap on Swap-Bot.
fall of the folds...
see the whole object and more of her work here:
www.aikotezuka.com/thin-membrane--pictures-come-down-2009...