disappearing – staying
(linen roasted, old books shredded and snippets sew together, free motion machine embroidery, photo transfer) Paul Cézanne once said: “You have to hurry if you want to see something, everything disappears…” He is addressing impermanence – much, almost everything, is impermanent. Our life is fleeting. But what remains is the
Lifelines
cotton, hand-dyed, breakdown-printing, machine-quilted Much is often planned in our life, some even assume that much is predetermined. Nevertheless, our life lines do not run in a straight line. There are events and cuts that happen consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, planned or unplanned. Which can have a positive
Flexibility and Bionic
In search of a nice theme for today’s blog post, I walked through my garden and found quite a bit of flexibility. Nature offers us wonderful examples. Let’s take a garden hose for example. It must be made of a completely flexible material so that we can place it in
On the road
Last week I was on vacation with my daughter, something that we do every year for a couple of days. This year we rented a campervan and went to France. Although we are campers for several years now, something new comes around every time. Even though you have a plan,
3T3-L1
40″ x 25,6 ” Cotton, painted with oil color, machine-quilted My daughter is a biochemist. Sometimes, when she is at home, data analyses are laying around. I was surprised about the wonderful “quilting patterns”. The first image which I saw showed 3T3-L1 cells. Those are murine fibroblasts, i.e. preliminary cells
New prompt: Cells
All life started with a single cell. During embryogenesis this cell is divided several times first building a cell cluster. Each of those is the precursor for a separate type of cells, e.g. liver cells, immune cells, neurons or muscle cells. They are all different in size, shape and function.
Interference patterns
38,6″ x 48,8″ hand dyed cotton, hand painted, machine quilted From a physical point of view, light has wave properties. To prove this, the double-slit experiment was developed. Light is sent from a light source through two narrow parallel gaps onto a projection surface. If the light were not a
Trencadis
30,7″ x 41″ silk, machine quilted Park Güell was one of the many urban developments that took place in Barcelona due to the demolishment, in 1854, of the medieval walls, an event which meant the city could grow and expand. During his visits to England, the industrialist, Eusebi Güell, developer
Antonio Gaudi
I have visited different cities in Europe with my daugther („mother-daughter-Vacation“ every year. (Note: Sometimes we go to the mountains😊). Europe has a lot of very special historical architecture. For instance Montmatre and Notre Dame in Paris, Big Ben in London, Milan Cathedral… It is incredible which architecture is that
Knowledge vs. Ignorance
39″ x 23.6″ (Hand dyed cotton, breakdown printing, machine stitching) The anatomy of the pelvic floor is wonderfully well constructed, because this small muscle group has to perform a variety of very demanding tasks: It closes our torso downwards. Since gravity is on it all day through our upright walk,
Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci studied the human body very carefully throughout his life. Since the age of thirty he has been working in Milan on building muscles and bones and their connections. Although it was forbidden at the time, he dissected more than 30 corpses for this purpose. These studies helped
1986
Doerte-Ina Liebing On April 26, 1986, a nuclear disaster of the highest category occurred near the Ukrainian city Pripyat. As a result, radioactivity of several trillion becquerels was released into the Earth’s atmosphere. Radioactive fallout fell in the region northeast of Chernobyl as well as by wind transport in many