I
designed “15 Trees” with simple composition to give confidence to members of my
embroidery course, especially the beginning ones. This piece is a good sample to
show that they can create beautiful embroidery pieces by their own ability in
every steps of the work.
The
blank pattern clearly shows simple design shapes, circles, ovals and straight
lines, and the pattern background. I
gave easy coloring of contrasting combination of two colors, green and pink. It
has several shades of green color on most of the area. I used a group of pink flowers
to make eye focus point
This
piece was one of my teaching materials, consisting of twelve stitches I put on
it, stem, running, back, circle button hole, Chain, cross, satin, long and
short, lazy-daisy, French knot, straight bullion knot, and circle bullion knot.
You may think there are too many stitches, but all of them are easy and popular
ones.
I worked
on “15 Trees” at night. Usually, I love to do my embroidery projects silently.
But this time I wanted some vivid things during work. Tina Turner’s songs from Youtube
filled me with joy. I’m a big fan of hers for almost thirty years. In my
teenage, I was just “a Rock lover kid” in high school who crazy about her hit songs and extraordinary
character. But now in my mature years, I like her even more with respect and sensible
ways.
Stitch
by stitch with her song in my ears, surprised for her dynamic performance.
“What
a great woman! She never disappointed her fans even at the age of 70.
This
is the colored woman of Tennessee from a family of cotton factory workers. She
was abused by her cocaine-addicted husband for years. When divorced, she gave
all the money to him to cut off all problems and started her new life again.
She had to take care of the children of her own and of ex-husband with another
woman. This tough woman gained victory in her life as “the Queen of Rock” and
as a mother as well.
My
heart and the powerful energy from her performance merged into one.
Some thoughts flashed in
my mind to compare the differences of two things.
This, the work of no
sound. That, the work of sounds.
This, the work without
teams. That, the work with teams.
This, the work of which
no one knows the maker, but that work, everyone loves to know the singer.
The work of material
things will last long for years. The work of non-material things, making songs,
sounds, lights and dancing postures, without media recording, all will be gone.
The way of embroiderers, slow, silent, light, alone and
calm.
The way of entertainers, quick, loud, rouse, load, in
front of crowd.
But nothing is a problem for me. I opened my mind accepting all the differences. Silence accepted Sound. Slow accepted Quick.
Calm was happy with Crowd. I worked with Tina Turner for almost four hours and
forgot my usual sleeping time. The “15 Trees”
was finished next day when I spent a little more time on it.
You can put in
some words to show the differences between the two women like this:
“About styles of the embroiderer and the entertainer”
GP - common,
but TT - cool.” :))
