ABANDONED, In The Mills
Bethany Garner
Anatomy of a country?
How do I relate the prompt of ‘anatomy’ to my theme of my country New Zealand? Generally you talk about the make up of people or animals and talk about the stomach, or lungs, legs etc but for a country you have to look at this differently! I have been
Forbury Park
When the prompt “lost world” was given I had just attended the last night of Harness Racing at Forbury Park in Dunedin, New Zealand. While I was involved in closing the raceway it was sad to see it close after nearly 100 years of racing. My father, my brothers and
Anatomy
The next prompt for our October/November challenge will be “Anatomy”. a·nat·o·my noun the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts. a study of the structure or internal workings of something. (Definition by
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
Sandoz Mile-Long Meadow
My lost world is a long-gone pond on former family property.
Time is running out
“Wenn ich wüsste, dass morgen die Welt unterginge, würde ich heute noch ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen” (“If I would have know the world would end tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today”) Martin Luther (1483- 1546)Theologist, Philosopher and Reformat. This quote is the inspiration for this quilt. Our world is
Lost and Found
I was one of those kids who grew up overseas because of my parent’s work. I wrote about growing up as a Third Culture Kid in a blog post earlier this month. https://clothincommon.com/third-culture-kid/ We lived in the Middle East and North Africa until I was about 12 then moved to
From Flax to Linen
The prompt “Lost Worlds“ brought my thoughts back to my old home country, Germany. Rather than thinking about personal stories and family, I thought about the history of the region where I grew up and its close ties to textile production. In Rhineland the main source for textiles was flax.
Shining Poison Factory
World War Two is finally over. Japan is in a state of destruction. In my parent’s era, Japan struggles to rebuild society and industry, even hosting the Olympic Games in 1964. There is a period of high growth, big factories are built nearby, some running 24 hours a day. One
Smoky Sky in the Morning, World Take Warning
Inspired by smoke in the sky from fired in the West, this piece is a warning against a world we may have lost.