Tuesday, October 2, 2018

visions

Hildegarde of Bingen had visions in childhood and entered the convent at age 7.
Her work: Scivias, begun in 1142 documented  26 of her visions.
Barbara Newman identifies Hildegarde as the first Christian thinker to deal seriously and positively with the idea of the feminine.
A female mysticism.

the above text is from a page from one of my notebooks (1999) that is now cut up and is being stitched to the black wool in the photo.  The idea to do this came to me in a dream.

These two cloths: part of my ongoing body of work dealing with my journals.

4 comments:

  1. stunning image of your raveling

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    1. the white against the black is evocative, i agree

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  2. upon closer inspection, it appears you are stitching your words in horizontal rows, yet i find the vertical strip from your journal striking. as always, i look forward to seeing this evolve. x

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    1. I plan to make three of them , and display them together - two table cloths and one blanket, covered with personal paper and hand stitch

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I hope that we can have a conversation about creation. Thank you for taking interest. x