Assignment was to create something on handmade paper inspired from poem, song or story. I chose story, and my new found joy in making French knots spurred me to use embroidery, those Fks being roses.Roses brought me to Musee Rodin story..traipsing about it with my sister. Great roses around The Thinker, but, the story of that venture was of the empty pedestal...kind of tall, but with sculpture out for repair or something. A girl (14?), having fun with her large family, jumped up on the pedestal and posed as sculpture. You kind of had to be there. Was so nice to see such spontaneous art, especially in the somewhat proper Paris garden setting.
Enchanted with looking, I didn't get my camera out fast enough. That lead to a discussion with my sister about participating and viewing. Great photographers seem to do both at the same time, but that takes skill and practice. The story also relates the ability to see a sunrise, a wave, or another beautiful moment and hold it with you, without a physical recording.
I chose to stitch a map of the garden because of a few hand drawn "from memory or creation" map pictures I have enjoyed...one from Jirinia's son Jan, and another of an artist at Creative Growth. The perspective of a map, and all the paths one can travel.
So, the french knot brought the rose, the rose brought the garden, the garden recalled the story, and that reminded me of beauty of all of it, including the lesson of the day.
Technical details: Transfered map onto Solvy, a water soluble material. Pinned Solvy onto my "paper" (silk georgette coated with glue..one rabbit skin glue, one white). Stitched with sewing machine (a lot of hand movements, back and forth with machine). Added flowers with hand embroidery. Tore off the Solvy (didn't want to risk adding water to my paper concoction) Yes, calling it paper is a stretch, at least to me, but that is what it was called in class, so, I am sticking (glue pun) with it...though may add a bit more coating to the silk to make it more papery hand.
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