BJP 2010 - Heartsquares - July

The colours are white and silver, rather wintery, but as it happens this is the July square. Besides beads, it also contains something from the hardware store: Hexagon nuts. Shiny and new, they are rather decorative.

The prepared fabric

Finished Heartsquare

BJP 2013 - Here comes the Sun - July

I had this piece of black silk – the blackest black – that I wanted to use. How do sunlight and black go together? Not very well. So, what could be the theme? A cloudy day? Not dark enough. An eclipse? Still not dark enough. But wait ... WHAT IF ...

OFF! Sun and Earth going to Pieces

 

What if ...

life was no more teeming,

with all of us forever dreaming

an icy dream on pitch-dark plains

neither touched by droughts nor rains,

nor by sound or laughter,

even aeons after

the sun burst into splinters,

followed by eternal winters ...

What if ...

there were no nights, no days,

no colours – yellows, reds or greys –,

no light at all from any source,

just vicious storms and winds so coarse

blowing, raging, reeling,

nowhere love or warmth of feeling ...

What if ...

long after our sun's forgotten,

the earth extinguished, lying rotten

to its lifeless, frozen core -

somehow, one day, another door

would open in the universe

to eliminate the curse,

revealing worlds with brandnew features,

other suns and unknown creatures ...

... that would be the greatest thrill!

What a pity that we will

be no part

of that new start.

Finally, I want to say:

Let's be grateful for each day

that we are granted on this Earth.

At every moment it is worth

all our love and constant care.

Of that we ought to be aware.

This planet is not our toy.

Put up a signboard: „DON'T DESTROY!“

Some detailed photos:

You find the story of this shard below.

My favourite shard because it comes from a set of china used during happy family times.

Four colourful shards.

Bits and Pieces.

Leaves and Flowers.

The Poem

I wrote the poem just before a big thunderstorm broke forth. The air was stifling, damp and thick, electrified. The sky looked menacing. The sun was concealed. All sounds were strange. I had been at a loss of how to put my theme into words, but suddenly, in the middle of this threatening atmosphere, the poem came, and I had to grab pen and paper to write it down ...

 

The Piece

Materials: Silk, iron-on interfacing, beads, shards, electric light switch, wire, cable staples.

The making-of held surprises as well as mishaps, for example:

When digging into the boxes of my mosaic shards, I cut my hand and swore most un-ladylike. Good that no one was near enough to listen.

Every now and again, when I had forgotten to file a particularly sharp edge, the thread would snap without warning, beads would fly in all directions. Poor things, they met their unglamorous end in the depths of my carpet flooring, and finally in the vacuum cleaner.

„100 % off“ was a lucky-surprise find in the mosaic-stash section „Shards with Writing“. It is part of a plate that I bought at a junk shop for mosaic purposes years ago. All over the plate, it had said: „100 % coffee“. Unfortunately, I tried to be too perfect when clipping the edges with my mosaic tongues, and so broke the shard in two. But never mind, I think that fits the theme.

Actually, I think the piece looks much too cheerful and decorative considering the disaster it is supposed to describe. But what can you do when BEADS are playing the lead ...

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