Unité (Victor Hugo), 60 x 80 cm (24” x 32”)
I started working on this theme last summer. Then came proposals for 3 solo shows for spring 2024, and as I'm currently in charge of SAQA's European branch and don't have 10 hands, I couldn't meet the deadline. But here's my finished piece, better late than never 🙂
Vintage cottons, home-dyed and printed, then machine pieced.
I was inspired by a poem by Victor Hugo that I've loved since childhood. I wanted to show the link between the sun's rays and those of the flower.
PS: I had one mishap, will you find it?
Unity
Over the horizon of burnished hills,
The sun, that flower of infinite splendors,
Leaned over the earth in the sunset hour;
A humble daisy, blooming at the edge of a field,
On a gray wall, crumbling among the wild oats,
White bloomed its candid halo;
And the little flower, over the old wall,
Staring into the eternal blue,
The great star spreading its immortal light.
"And I've got rays too!" she'd say to him.