The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro.

“The stories she could tell”

2017. Mixed media on canvas.

— Tamembro

Living The Green Dream - embroidery work

Living the Green Dream (2018 - 2020)

Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a raw canvas, diameter 26cm / 10"

— Tamembro

Painted these two tiny things (each the size of a bridge playing card, about 88mm x 56mm).

The Sketch Hunter #2

hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on linen; it measures 31cm x 33cm

2022 - 2023

embroidered figure

“The stories she could tell”

2017. Mixed media on canvas.

— Tamembro

... 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)

Inspired by traditional sashiko stitching. Sashiko is a Japanese hand-stitching technique. The basic technique is a small running stitch that follows the grain of the fabric.