Wormhole.

Happy weekend everybody :-)

look here too

Two more.

Two more embroideries from the wormhole series









Rain :(

Monday.

1. the Cottingley Fairies
2. my kitchen in the evening sun
3. the Casablanca Clouter


Sweet Dreams :-)

Wormhole.

Working on the wormhole series again; I will show

more detailed photos when the work is done.

photo 4 is my new loom, up to now only another piece

of furniture in the house; by the way, the bed is

still in my livingroom, but I don't bother anymore,

playing comes first is my motto :-)

Happy weekend everybody!

Edgard Tytgat.

Do you remember my Little Red Riding Hood post?
Photo 1-3-8 come from the series:
' QuelQues Images de la Vie d'un Artiste' 1917
Photo 6 is Edgard and his wife Maria on vacation in 1929



from the series 'Carrousels et Baraques'

woodcut, Carrousels et Baraques

from the series 'Le Lendemain de la Saint-Nicolas'

'Invitation au Paradis' 1922

wood -and linocut.

The images come from the book:

Edgard Tytgat houtsnijder

Softies.

This cute fly was keeping me company while making
another smyrna cushion; she was very relaxed and
not at all pushy, actually I liked her.
When I was a kid, I had a similar fly in my collection,
although I remember her with a fully translucent abdomen;
could be my childlike imagination :-)
Anyway, I got help from an expert who suggested this fly was
likely the volucella pellucens, and yes, it was her!

By the way, I collected insects when I was a young girl
and I have to admit, the urge is still there to go and find
me an empty jar when I see a beauty like this,
lucky for her I was to busy with the cushion :-)

Happy weekend everybody!

Hexagons the Japanese way.

My mom once taught me how to make a hexagon
patchwork with those little cardboards inside;
but now I tried it the Japanese way, it is so much easier!

The instructions come from this book.

Good luck :-)

About the Essex.

I was looking for some information about the Essex,

the whaleship who was attacked and sunk by a

sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean in 1820.

Herman Melville based his novel 'Moby-Dick'

on this incident but the real story is even more

horrible, look here too.

The Essex was a normal whaling ship of the early

1800s; it was 26m long and had 3masts; it also

carried five smaller whaling boats.

The drawing on the top comes from the notebook

of Thomas Nickerson, the cabin boy of the Essex;

his account was found in the 1960s and is called:

The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk by a Whale and

the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats.

The writing below the drawing says:

"Here lay our beautiful ship, a floating and dismal

wreck"

It's gonna be difficult for me to offer a nice story for

the Age of Discovery project; could be I'll make one

with an happy ending for both the whale and the ship :-)

The second photo is me on my 'deck'.

I could have said something like "There might be

a sea over there, behind those buildings" but I

didn't, it was my sister who came up with that idea.

I aged the photo here, found via Fine Little Day.

The beautiful Japanese watercolor of a whaler comes from here.

The press cutting is the Far West, that's not a whaler,

but I liked the photo.

Good Night and Sweet Dreams!

Henryk Stazewski.

Henryk Stazewski

Europalia 2001

Thank you!!!

I'm so glad for the many responses on my
Metropolis project, thanks a lot everybody!
I was making this series for a project I'm participating
in September; I will tell you more about it later.
My webshop is somewhat delayed now, I'm sorry for that.
Too much work with the project.

Giant mushroom in my backyard :-)