after the big bang

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Anonymous She

Here's my January Beginnings haiku and small quilt. It's done on fabric that I stencilled with oil sticks. The woman and baby are made of fabric I've dyed or painted in various ways. The face was made by free-motion embroidering on hand-dyed habotai silk.
Thousands of years of iconic anonymous women have been on my mind.
Linda Jacks

Anonymous She
Speaks Mitochondrially
Began Begat Me

Fiber Art Piece for January Challenge

Earlier this month I posted my Haiku for our January word "Beginnings".

I also posted a photo that I created to illustrate the Haiku.

Treacherous frost lurks

Tender shoots defy the chill

Hardy rosebuds thrive.

Here is the Fiber Art component

 The background is lutradur - burned edges, painted, stamped and painted with pearl-ex. Added wintery textures with stamped angelina fibers and sequin waste.
The rosebuds are printed from my garden photos - and thread painted.
A purchased leafy "vine" is appliqued.
The Haiku is printed on Extravorganza that has been fringed and painted on the edges.
The whole piece is covered with a sparkly tulle for added winter effect. A few scattered beads add motion.

Guila Greer

Detail

January Beginnings

A journal sized fabric and fibre "quilt" to accompany another attempt at the January Haiku themes of "Beginnings"
I based my work on a photo attributed to Pawel Achtel of a coral reef spawning (coral) polyps to ensure new growth on the reefs.

Tropic seas dreaming
Under full moon coral spawns
Life begins anew.

Measuring 8.5 by 11 inches and in a landscape format, I used Xpandaprint to represent the massed formation of creamy white coral.
(Imagine this as being viewed in the flash of a camera!)
Six strands of DMC embroidery thread and Anchor # 8 crochet thread was employed to add more texture.
The green shadowed coral was (hand) needle felting.

Small sequins and pearl beads were used to represent the coral spawn, but I feel that yet many more need applying to represent the millions of spawn floating on the tide.

New Beginnings...Jan. 2011

A new birth has come...
We all gather together...
A celebration.

Beginnings

I chose the newborn for my Haiku. Spending so much time at the hospital with my Mom I have witnessed so many new borns and hope they all have a rich full life.

Beginnings:
behold your journey
embrace enjoy entirely
beloved little one

I chose a piece of my snow dyed fabric, love the way it portrays the rays of sunshine, and all the wonderful colors of our world with some turbulence a long the way. I free cut the silhouette from a rough sketch  and added some hand stitching.

January--Beginnings

A new year begins...
the opened door releases
the unknown's magic.






I tried to capture a sense of magic in the piece. The magic of all the possibilities inherent in the future. The piece is fused applique collage and beaded. Machine quilted iwth mettalic thread.

beginnings Haiku

seeds of all seasons
waiting for life to begin
rest in still places


I used a piece of copyright-free artwork, manipulated it, printed on a batik fabric, stamped, did some free-motion stitching, twisted 2 different fibers for the edging, added beadwork and quilting. I think I will mount this on a textured black substrate.

This idea was inspired by my daughter and her husband who have spent 4 years in fertility treatments, battled with each carrying a recessive gene which does not allow a baby to reach full-term, but now are pregnant with a normal, healthy baby! Praise God!

January Beginnings

As still bare branches
Cast purple shadows--silence
Breaks when crows caw life.








On the first morning of the challenge I sat by my dining room window watching the morning rise. Winter gray skies and a certain stillness kept me enraptured until the cawing of crows signaled the beginning of a new day.

I used painted and stitched paper-cloth to construct this piece.

(Beginnings) Fire-storm

Fire-storm

Summer fire storms
Land lies scorched and blackened.
Rains revitalize.

Stark Winter Secret

This is a hot wax on paper bag collage I did in the fall. The images have stayed in my mind and writing the haiku was helpful in expressing what I thought.

Cold limb creaking-bare
Stark tree swears new leaf inside
Bare nature in code.

Jan 1/ Beginnings

My first haiku for the week 1 challenge.  Just a light sketch.  Winter is here for sure, but spring is on the way!

Frozen deep within
Mother Earth holds seeds of life
for new beginnings

Florida Sunrise Haiku - "Beginnings" Jan. 9, 2011

Florida Sunrise Haiku-  "Beginnings"

God's beauty at dawn...
Each day signals a new start...
All to make love bloom.

first day at school

I was a bit too quick when I posted my haiku last week as at that time I had not yet translated the haiku into a piece of art. I'll repeat my haiku here so that you do not have to scroll down:\

A first day at school
Numbers, Letters, they call you
No more time to play?

This haiku inspired me to make this journal quilt:

At the moment it is only fused, I have not yet had time to stitch/quilt/bind it.

Hope is a beginning - by Cynthia Ann Morgan

Here's my little haiku art quilt:

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In the bare winter

the spotted towhee finds hope

in a red berry

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Cynthia

(Can you tell I'm a bird watcher!)

START

Seeds beneath the earth

Awaiting the warmth of spring

Soon will sprout and grow

As I thought about the word "beginnings," I thought of new growth in the spring.

The word "start" didn't come to me until I'd nearly finished the piece and decided it needed something on the left side, so I added a few alphabet beads:

My primary goal for the fiber pieces that go with the haiku for this group is to try new things. I also don't want to obsess about finding the "perfect" bit of material - so the earth is a piece of upholstery material (which DID work out perfectly!), the sky is a scrap of flannel, and the pieces of the plant are assorted odd leftover pieces.

I'd never done anything remotely resembling threadpainting, but it worked really well for the root hairs. I'm not so happy about the leaves; I like the 3-D aspect, but the rough edges still bother me some.

First Cup

I treat each day as a new 'beginning'...  thoughtfully and in a meditative mode contemplating my good fortune at just being alive, hearing the birds sing, being with the love of my life  [and much more]... all with my first cuppa... in my case, coffee.. and being glad I can enjoy it...
I will be doing all my Haiku Art for this year in journal fashion, each will be mixed media and will incorporate fabric somewhere.


Technique: I used dyed paper towel, painted Japanese rice paper, 'repurposed' [my word for 2011] painted and stitched batting... then my 'quilted to batting' coffee cup and saucer... and I did stitch it right to the paper.
Haiku poem:

Rejuvenation

Something special whenever

You hope for clear skies

my hermetic-astro-micro quilts

For this haiku challenge I've worked on a diptych. I've made 2 quilts and 2 haikus. Everyone can stand alone, but toghether they have more relevance.
This piece is Hermetic with reference to Hermes Trismegistus that in his "emerald tablet" stated: "That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, to perform the miracles of the one thing.".
I thought about something that is similar in microcosm and macrocosm

For the macrocosm I've referred to the begin of the universe, for the microcosm I've referred to the begin of everyone (surely you can say I'm biologist)

So here is my two haikus:

1.
A spark in the dark
stars and galaxies unroll
that's how all began

2.
A sperm in the dark
an oocyte is waiting
that's how we began

Comments are welcome :)

My first haiku

You pave a new path

jump, bounce and hop up and down

come shine a new day

Techniques: the background fabric is a mono print. The top layer is a polyester fabric that has been laminated with old newspaper clippings with the help of a thermofax screen; this piece was then laminated with silver leaf and silk screened with fabric paint (jumping people). The "haiku" poem has been printed directly to a leftover piece of the background fabric.

Margarita Korioth

January Haiku Art

Treacherous frost lurks

Tender shoots defy the chill

Hardy rosebuds thrive.











We received our "prompt" word for January at midnight  Wednesday.  Earlier in the day I was in the garden checking the rosebushes. We had a little frost the night before and I was concerned.  All the bushes looked healthy- even hints of new growth were evident.
When we got our word I thought of our rose garden immediately and scribbled down my thoughts. Today I took some photos of the new buds.  I incorporated one of the buds into a winter scene that I shot 2 weeks ago in Minneapolis. I wanted to portray the idea that not only can Nature survive some pretty harsh conditions but that she indeed can begin anew and thrive.
My next step is to portray this image as an art quilt.