... People Come To The Sea, And See Nothing But Salt Water, Sharks And Fishes. They Say, “Where Is
... people come to the sea, and see nothing but salt water, sharks and fishes. They say, “Where is this pearl others speak about? Perhaps there is no pearl.” How can the pearl be gained merely by looking at the sea? Even if they measured out the sea, cup by cup, a hundred thousand times, they would never find the pearl. A diver is needed to discover that pearl, and not just any diver, but a diver who is both fortunate and nimble. Humanity’s sciences and arts are like measuring the ocean with a cup. To find the pearl calls for something else.
đź“– Discourses of Rumi: Fihi Ma Fihi by Jalal al-Din Rumi. Translated by A. J. Arberry (Ames, Iowa: Omphaloskepsis, 2000)
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'Young woman sitting under a tree'
Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a linen background and stretched over mount board, measures: 16.5cm x 11.5cm
One available from my shop:
— Tamembro
embroidered figure
One available from my shop:
Reflections - embroidery work
Reflections
Hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on a linen background, 18.8cm x 18cm
The texture study inspired by Claude Monet's brushstrokes, Fields in Spring (1887)
— Tamembro
The Sketch Hunter - embroidery work
The Sketch Hunter – 17cm x 14cm on linen
She carries her sketchbook everywhere, collecting ideas.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. Like any hunter he hits or misses. He is looking for what he loves, he tries to capture it. It’s found anywhere, everywhere. Those who are not hunters do not see these things. The hunter is learning to see and to understand—to enjoy.
— Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (Basic Books, 2007)
Reflections - embroidery work
Reflections
Hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on a linen background, 18.8cm x 18cm
The texture study inspired by Claude Monet's brushstrokes, Fields in Spring (1887)
— Tamembro
“swimming softly in silence”
a visual journal (12 August 2018)
'A red fox observes a young bear and a pair of barn owls flying above them'
Hand embroidery on linen
She is there! A closeup of a work in progress of new work for my The Sketch Hunter series.
— tamembro, 2021
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