chance

 

 

 

Chance touches the very idea of freedom.  To give yourself over to chance is to embrace freedom, the unknown, total openness.  Exactly where contemporary art is going.  Claude Gosselin, curator.

pay attention

 

It is important for the child to feel that the mother is present.

It is also important to give the child enough space to be in its own imagination.

a D.W. Winnicott idea

figurative

The Muslim style in Ethiopia

The most beautiful example belongs to the urban women of the ancient walled city of Harar.  Marriage dresses are long, full smocks of indigo-dyed light cotton sewn up along a central longitudinal seam to form a V shaped neckline.

A piece of imported satin or damask of contrasting colour is sewn on to cover the shoulders, neck, breast, upper back.

All the edges of this applied fabric, and the neckline are outlined with delicate restrained  floral embroidery in satin stitch, which forms identical patterns on the inside of the dress.

It is therefore possible to turn the dress inside out.

A practice carried out at various stages during the wedding ceremony.

John Gillow
african textiles