My grandmother
While working on this piece, I was able to think again about the life of my grandmother who passed away. I don”t know the details, but I think her life as a woman was much harder, more sacrificed and discriminated against. However, she didn’t surrender to it and continued to
Oma’s Farm – finished!
As promised, here is my finished piece for our prompt “Heritage”. To read the full story about my grandmother’s farm and the making of this quilt see the previous blogpost. I’m glad I didn’t rush the quilting part as I think it adds a lot to this piece. The detail
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
Layers
When looking at heritage as a prompt there were several options for me to consider from family, history, lineage to the loss of our historical buildings through our earthquakes. However as I looked at each it came to me that everything has layers of history past, present and future. Looking
STITCH – A Lifetime Ago
Six sisters, all quilters, and one small boy. My grandmother, a Kentucky farm wife, a master Kentucky quiltmaker, was one of the six and determined to teach the smallest quilter – her son, my Uncle Rufus who was born in 2018 with Down’s Syndrome never went to school. The family
Kailasa Temple
For the Heritage prompt, Deb chose to depict the Kailasa Temple, one of the 34 temples in the Ellora Cave complex.
Oma’s Farm
When we got the prompt “Heritage” I immediately thought about my Grandmother’s farm in Germany. This is where I grew up, in the Rhineland, a few kilometres from the border with the Netherlands. I have a lot of vivid memories about this place, about the farm as a building and
Rietveld Schröder House
During this prompt about heritage, I paid attention to Gerrit Rietveld. He lived from 1888 to 1964 and was an architect, furniture designer and graphic designer. In 1919 he designed the red/blue chair, a symbol of “De Stijl”. “De Stijl” is an art movement, named after the magazine of the
Atomic Bomb Dome In Hiroshima
The war my parents experienced was not so long ago. My father went across Asia as a soldier, and I heard my mother practiced with bamboo spear for the final battle. Until the atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese people believed that Japan would win the war. At that moment,
A Place for Everything?
My grandmother tried to instill order in me, but it didn't always stick.
Water for Life
I am digressing from my Gaudi series this time for the prompt of Heritage. I visited a living museum a little while ago called Meroogal and was taken with the simplicity of a home which had been the home of a relatively wealthy family, the Thorburns. This is an image
I LIKE PIE
Karol Kusmaul I don’t specifically remember my grandmother or my mom teaching me how to bake pies, but I suppose I learned just by watching. Each of them probably made thousands of pies through the years. Whenever I make a pie, I’m transported back to their kitchens in my memory