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Today I am showing you a piece I finished earlier this year, called "Hiraeth".
Today I am showing you a piece I finished earlier this year, called "Hiraeth".
"Hiraeth" (c) 2013 Kit Lang - 39" x 29"
Two weeks before Christmas in 2012, I came across the word "hiraeth" on Facebook. I'm an avid reader, and work with words for a living, but had never seen this word before. A quick Google search informed me that it was a Welsh word with no real English equivalent - but it's closed meaning was something like "homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost".
I was shocked today to read of the death of Kathreen Ricketson of Whip Up
This is a strange post to write. Kathreen's passing is a loss to her partner (should he be found) and a huge loss to her children and loved ones. There is no doubt that her passing is a loss to her friends, and her co-workers. And her passing will be a loss as well to all those who read her blog daily.
But I'm not one of them.
I have never interacted with her. Not even once.
And yet her passing has reminded me once more, that life is soooo damn short. We don't have tomorrow, or next week or next year - we might not even have the rest of the damn day. We only have right now. Right now. That's it.
So, remember when I decided to remove "the dude selling Christmas trees"? I was left with this - which was a problem.
But how to cover it up? I tried painting it (didn't help), melting it (the base of this piece is a man-made fabric) but it only scorched it. So then I tried painting the scorching which also didn't work, so I had to remove the paint and then scorch the whole thing to match, giving it a nice, yellow cast (good thing I'm not planning to enter it in any shows!) and then I sat and puzzled till my puzzler broke.
So what did I do?
Wow! It took so long that it feels like it was quite the saga to get here, but it wasn't really - it was just one billion stitches, a stitch at a time. :)
Okay, maybe it wasn't one BILLION, but it was a lot! (That pic is clickable by the way - click once to open it and then twice to embiggen - and will be MASSIVE if you want to check out the detail).
But speaking of details...
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