A smart combination

Maria Fernanda Smart is combining art techniques in a beautiful way. Thank you Angie for telling me about his fantastic artist.

It is Tuesday, cold and raining

When I am cleaning, I always have pithy ideas to post, start writing it in my head. Then I sit down here, at the computer and I am not sure where they have gone!

After watching Sean Combs documentary of shame, I am convinced the he and piggy president are related. It is pretty salacious. He comes off as a complete narcissus who uses and abuses everyone around him ... he has to be on top.

It has been two months since Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to four years in prison as a result of his landmark federal racketeering case. The hip-hop mogul was cleared of the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, and only found guilty of the lesser charge of transportation to engage in prostitution—a more lenient verdict than some expected, all things considered. But that didn’t stop one of Combs’ longtime rivals, rapper 50 Cent, from going ahead with his previously announced plans to executive produce a documentary chronicling Combs’ alleged misdeeds. Last week, that docuseries—Sean Combs: The Reckoning—arrived on Netflix, where it rocketed to the No. 1 television slot on the platform.

The series aims to cover a lot of ground in four hourlong episodes, going over the recent sexual assault allegations against the entrepreneur (which are still mounting in filed civil suits that currently tally over 70) as well as various prominent questions of his past, like, What, if any, is his alleged involvement in the murder of beloved rapper Tupac? Netflix has certainly promised a number of bombshells in the docuseries detailing Combs’ rise to prominence in the industry—but whether the streaming platform delivers on those promises is another matter. Here’s a breakdown of what to know from Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

I really love the depth of texture of Lindzeanne's handywork! It inspires me to want to create something.

Mirror, mirror, in a frame

So I think someone hacked into my main email account, f*cking hackers. Still trying to figure it out and also what other damage they might have done.

Improvements in English domestic glass production in the second half of the century coincided with the fashion for raised-work embroidery and resulted in the production of some of the most spectacular examples of embroidered household furnishings of the seventeenth century. 

The three-dimensionality of the embroidery and the creative use of materials on this example are very impressive. The tail feathers of the peacock are created from fragments of actual bird feathers, there are tiny shells and bits of coral in the grotto surrounding the fish pond, and the costumes of the courting couple include details such as real lace trimmings and seed pearls.

 Mirror frame at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The biblical characters Jael and Barak, flanking the mirror glass, appear in the book of Judges. The frame is surmounted by a figure of Charity; animals, mythic and actual, symbolizing the Four Continents, occupy the corners (from upper left): a griffin representing Africa, a basilisk representing America, a stag representing Europe, and a camel for Asia.

Raised work embroidery was very popular during the middle of the 17th century.

A CHARLES II EMBROIDERED AND STUMPWORK MIRROR FRAME, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Folk Art Glass Beaded Mirror, probably northern Europe, probably late 18th century, the central mirror framed in beaded mosaic set onto canvas (probably linen) depicting animals in a forest of trees and flowers in a faux tortoiseshell lacquered frame. Sold for:$7,995

In the Great Parlour, this mirror is surrounded by three dimensional embroidery called stumpwork. The colourful stumpwork is made up of five components of varying age. The top and side panels were completed by Sir Walter Jenner’s sister-in-law when she stayed here in the 1920s.

“WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE.” - Kahlil Gibran

HILLARY WATERS FAYLE "brings together materials and processes that express the union of humanity and the physical world, most often textile traditions in collaboration with botanical material. We all have a deep historical and lived experience with cloth- powerful and ever present. Plants and cloth both represent specific and symbolic connections to place, time, people and memory. Leaves are infinitely replenish-able, uniquely exquisite, ubiquitous to the point of being taken for granted- remarkable, yet invisible. Plants connect us directly to the land, grounding us in our understanding of our place on the planet."

The world sees red

The Red Dress project by Kristie (and the world).

The Red Dress at the Museo Des Artes Popular, Mexico City 2020 from Kirstie Macleod on Vimeo.

 

 

THREAD by Caitlin Akass 2022 from Kirstie Macleod on Vimeo.

Loji Höskuldsson

Loji Höskuldsson

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