Spiral - The Journey

"hi, what do you see?"

“Whisper the Words”

a visual journal (7 August 2018)

... 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.

📖 Discourses of Rumi: Fihi Ma Fihi by Jalal al-Din Rumi. Translated by A. J. Arberry (Ames, Iowa: Omphaloskepsis, 2000)

The Leaves Speak

Leaves monoprint, hand-stitched on used tea bag

(August 2019)

— Tamembro

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro.

'Rising'

Hand-stitched on used tea bag

— tamembro, 2021

One available from my shop:

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'Reflections' Fields in Spring - embroidery artwork

a hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on a linen background and stretched over thick paperboard; it measures: 18.8cm x 18cm the te

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

(July 2019)

'River flows in you'

Watercolor, monoprint, hand-stitched on used tea bag

'A stream running through a misty forest'

A painting study from reference

Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm

From the 'Water' painting series (March 2020)

— Tamembro