Season of Darkness, Season of Sight
I dedicated my quilt to an artist friend who is blind.
Scribbly Note to Self
When I wrote in Musings, I talked about the subtlety, indeed, sometimes absence, of a change of season within my climate – southern hemisphere, arid, dry, long hot summers and short winters. It is not that I was lying, more that I was discussing the averages, the normal, the usual.
Recovery
Last summer, I was facing a serious situation. My husband was critically ill with sever pneumonia caused by COVID-19. At that time, I was very scared and anxious the situation, but I had to endured it.However, thanks to efforts of the medical team, he gradually began to recover and my
Relationships
Continuing on with my series its interesting to see how the colour is changing from piece to piece. Each piece is also getting narrower at this point until 9 inches wide then I will begin enlarging them back to a full 24 inches wide. It will be interesting to see
Berribee Shearing Shed
Abandoned and disused shearing sheds and wool sheds are littered all over country Australia. If you could run sheep, most properties also had a shearing shed as it was not viable to move the sheep very far to be shorn. The farmer would muster the sheep into a paddock nearest
Secret key
At first, this prompt seemed very simple. But on second thought, I’ve come a long way. My first attempt was to quilt a once dyed piece of fabric and add something and that’s it. But that just didn’t work out. I still had plenty of time and I made a
Check The Box
A short time after my 18th birthday, I went to vote for the first time. I never missed an election since then, not once. How important this right had been for me hit me like a brick when I couldn’t vote after we moved to the USA. The emigration took
Troubled Times
Janine Ibbini Here is my artistic reflection of our Troubled Times Our Human Suffering and our Relationships The interpretation is up to the Viewer. Who will very likely interpret it differently Different than the thoughts and emotions I was experiencing while I created it. You may see within this piece
Skies, Rivers, Forests, and Fields…seeking Restoration
The changes in temperature and the long days we so loved during the fall in Ontario have nearly come and gone, and we are awaiting the cold and windy days we knew were coming. As we think about the depth and beauty of the days that remind us of our
Restoration 4-3
An image of peaceful reading, surrounded by threats of book banning.
Love Thy Neighbor
I’ve been working on art and writing for a Masters degree recently. The subject is violence. Of particular concern to me when I began this work was the invasion of Ukraine and the surfeit of gun violence in the United States. Finally focusing on solutions took me back to early
Kintsugi 2
Anything that has a shape is destined to break someday. Old pottery has countless cracks that make it look like it will fall apart. Kintsugi works with the premise that everything is returned to the soil, using only natural materials. After a vessel made from clay is broken, it is