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| Vasalisa This is a project I did last year for my Graduating Exhibition at WITT. Happy that I now have my BVA, which has enabled me to begin my Postgrad in Early Childhood this year; Children are stunning in their activity and creativity, always imagining, it's neat to be working with them. The source for the symbols that are hand embroidered onto tissues and cotton lace handkerchiefs is Phaistos Disc, Crete, now in the Museum of Crete. Phaistos Disc is one of the oldest surviving logograms, the best bit is that it's still a mystery, no one has been able to uncover what all the symbols mean, This left me free to create my own meanings which is what I began to do in the book, titled An Arctic Remedy. The labor of embroidery was a good thing, I get off on repetition and working with terribly delicate almost impossible material, like tissue, I ripped a few..yes really I did. The unifying spiral motif is where it all started, I wanted a symbol that goes on and on, and I was into Hunderwasser's work at the time, he is big on spirals. Hunderwasser thought he could decipher Phaistos disc by flipping it over and connecting the symbols from both sides into a whole, this hadn't been done before. It was such a relief to get this Exhibition up and at em, left me with a sense of never wanting to make art again, but that has passed now. |
Karen lives in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
email Karen at vasalisa1966 @ hotmail.com (remove the spaces)