“The Stories She Could Tell”

Everything in nature is changing, and so is your story. Acceptance doesn’t mean this is how it’s going to end. It’s an acknowledgement that this is where it begins. We are all works in progress. To be alive is to evolve. You can play an active role in that evolution, but first you need to recognise that it is happening.

📖 'Wabi Sabi' : Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life (2018) by Beth Kempton

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

“Man and a Candle”

A mixed media figure - combining hand embroidery on linen using cotton threads with various papers and acrylic paint. Measures: 21,1 x 24,7 cm

'A red fox observes a young bear and a pair of barn owls flying above them'

Hand embroidery on linen

... 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)

'Where the mind goes the body follows'

hand-embroidered on linen

(tamembro, 2020)

'Rising'

Hand-stitched on used tea bag

— tamembro, 2021

"I see you behind the bamboo trees"

hand-stitched, ink on used tea-bag

— Tamembro (2019)