"hi, What Do You See?"

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/ / the in betweens / /

some days are just like that

not totally here not completely there

all is fine but nothing is good

you stop, you wonder

you move on

The Leaves Speak

Leaves monoprint, hand-stitched on used tea bag

(August 2019)

— Tamembro

'smell of silence'

— tamembro, 2020

The Sketch Hunter - embroidery work

The Sketch Hunter – 17cm x 14cm on linen

She carries her sketchbook everywhere, collecting ideas.

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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. Like any hunter he hits or misses. He is looking for what he loves, he tries to capture it. It’s found anywhere, everywhere. Those who are not hunters do not see these things. The hunter is learning to see and to understand—to enjoy.

— Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (Basic Books, 2007)

'Where the mind goes the body follows'

hand-embroidered on linen

(tamembro, 2020)

'Rising'

Hand-stitched on used tea bag

— tamembro, 2021

'A stream running through a misty forest'

A painting study from reference

Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm

From the 'Water' painting series (March 2020)

— 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)

'Young woman sitting under a tree'

Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a linen background and stretched over mount board, measures: 16.5cm x 11.5cm

One available from my shop:

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The visual storytelling of Tamembro. Works in thread and paint.

— Tamembro