Talents are best nurtured in
solitude;
Character is best formed in the
stormy billows of the world.
-Goethe
OK, well, again...please excuse the photo quality (and don't ya love the vacuum cleaner in the background?! Haha)
This
is what I've most recently begun. I sure hope I get past the 'begun'
stage. It seems I'm better at starting than continuing or completing.
But maybe that is OK. Maybe
that will be my legacy!
Anyway, this is how all of the recent weather
has been making me feel...kinda swirly with care and concern. The
beautiful colored fabrics swirling and the sky & sun are from
Deb Lacativa.
Thank you Deb! The rest are dyed by me. They represent how I've been
feeling...seeing the swirl of the weather maps, filled with storms and
the remains of people's lives. The photo out of
Seaside Heights, New Jersey with all of the houses surrounded by sand...just boggles my mind. My heart breaks for these families, for
all of those affected by the storms.
The
large background piece I dyed in pomegranate remains. I liked the
little markings left & wanted them to show (at least for now), so
was led to the thought: "Who says the smaller piece HAS to BE
centered?"
I love them milky-calm yellowish color from the pomegranate. The
background of the smaller piece was dyed with too far gone to eat
blackberries and pomegranate juice (left-over after eating all the yummy
seeds!) I folded the berries inside and smashed them with an old
wooden meat tenderizing hammer! Never actually used on meat I may add!
It was my hammer for years, for hanging pictures and such. Everyone
thought I was nuts, but it worked! OK back to the story...
The
blackberries left it BRIGHT pinkish. Super-Duper filled with color.
Then I sopped up some pomegranate juice with it and it kinda went
fluorescent!!! Looked way cool :) Washed out all of the expired berry
smell and it went gray...like the recent skies for many on the east
coast (and even here for a couple of days!). So, there it sits...stormy.
The only part actually sewn
down thus far is the band of dark sky with the left-over from its
previous life holes. I'm playing with the idea of using those holes
somehow. I also am considering having some blue sky and sun poking
through, which I sorta pinned in. I love how a stormy sky looks. I
love how it looks when it begins to clear. I bet many fellow Americans
are lifted by that feeling as well.
The swirl is made of more of
Deb's fabrics and an old cotton white on white leaves print, also dyed
in pomegranate. Not sure if the 'look' of it settles with me, although I
do like the raggedy, torn up edges. That symbolizes the lives of the
folks back east to me, along with the storms themselves.
What will
become of the remainder of the larger cloth, I have no idea. Maybe it will remain covered in 'sand' without much else.
I'll look at this one some more. Thanks for looking and reading.
Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2012
“Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn’t we?”
-Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy
