I'm catching up with rcty's posts, I just read some of your fiber art descriptions. I'm having difficulty putting my thoughts and feelings into words, I guess the best way to say it is, "I'm amazed!" Your piece with the soldier, chocolate and gum reminded me of my father, who was a child in WW2 Germany, after the war he too delighted in getting chocolate from american soldiers. (He was in then West Berlin.)
In Unbody, who does the woman with the open weave represent, your mother, you, another relative in the house you grew up in?
Okay, now to catch up with these more than 400 posts!
I realized after I posted that kudos was from the Greek that there are very often _many_ similarities between languages, words and meanings, as far as I understand most languages can be or are traced back somehow to root languages. It's quite fascinating!
111cm high , 80 wide . Just at the time when i was busy to weave and embroider my face, my son gave me a bag of floppy discs. Being curious me, i opened the Square envelpe and found that inside the hard cardboard like envelope, was a soft white tissuelike envelope and inside that was a little soft black shine round disc. I made holes around both the envelopes and the Round discs , worked a roaw of `blanket stiches`, and than crocheted around this, than i sewed together the squares and rounds, in the corners i pot a full envelope , cut open to see the discs, than i sewed round , square m round and again a full envelope, the next row is round, square , round , square and ends with a round ,,, this way i worked moretill i had a pieced a 5 wide 7 high parts wall hanging , now i cut part of the darker covers and exposed the white of the sqares in the form [partly ] of my face , on the papers i sewed some lines on the shiny rounds i didn`t ,, this gives the impression like those Faces they cover on TV , we all know discs store information , the work was pieced together like a patchwork ,,,, hence the name. it is the one work that folds up the best ,
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102 wide , 94 high woven. Cottons I always wondered about artists making Hommage ,,,,and wanted to make a Feminage, i wove a pink [hinting to Bourgeois traditions] frame to a net like work , a female bust stands on a marble stand that stands on a rug , the background light filters through the net and leaves it `lonely` in it`s `glory` ...
--------------------- A Badge for Them
---------------------------- i tried to make a badge for naties , as opposed to the yellow badge, my people had to wear, during the Holocaust. Not making any Swasticas by principe, i worked hard to come out with a fitting badge. To memorize. I embroidered a Yellow big D on black cloth, on the foot of the D i ended the word D ...eutch . I sewed 2 badges like this on 2 Human Contours , sewen by machine, and added 3 more `suggestive heads. all this on a linnen cloth 190 long
15o high ,,, i hang it very softly , it floats a bit it reacts to w>
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