Hello needleworkers from all around the world!
Tonight I will share with you another project I am up to and it is related to seasons. As a matter of fact I am always up to new projects since I always think about something else and still something else and I finish my UFO's only when it is absolutely necessary.
Well take it for granted that I love every month of the year for various reasons and I really wanted to make a project for that..
But, instead of doing a calendar project I decided to focus on the 4 seasons!
And since I am very fond of literature and poetry as well, I wanted to combine my love for poetry and my love for needles and threads.
So, I chose my favourite Greek poet, Miltos Sahtouris. He is a poet that lived during a very tough period in Greece and he expressed his feeling through many iconographic poems. And I say, iconographic, because his poems contain words that are full of images.
Sahtouris had written poems for every season of the year, so I chose the following one to start since it is Autumn after all.
Why start with Autumn?
Because for me Autumn symbolizes two things:
- Start of the year (school mostly and every other start after summer vacations)
- The Season of FALL in everything (like my hair for example) that can turn you down or make you wanna step up and give all the pessimism in a more creative and constructive way another look!
So, I submit the translated form of Sahtouris' poem...
AUTUMN
What's the girl looking for
in the darkness of the chair?
quickly
as night falls in autumn
she undresses
with clouds before her eyes
with the rain inside her head
with the needle in her heart
she removes the stockings
removes the flowers
discards the halo
outside the time's leaves
are dyed in blood
[Translated by David Connolly]
After I read this poem I started designing into a newspaper a sketch and then I transferred it to a fabric using my needle, my threads and my embroidery hoop...
I tried to be as close as to the poem and in the same time to attribute an honor to this great poet and his poems, which I admire so much. I am still in the beginning of this project and I plan to keep on with winter. I don't know yet how to combine the 4 seasons together when I finish them but I will figure it out somehow. And the halo, I think, I had to make it lighter...
So, how do you think?? Send me your comments and show me your love!
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