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You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That’s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
The Torture Garden – Octave Mirbeau
I knew there will be words in my project because that is what I saw at first and second glimpse, there are only words...No, I am not depressed at all (on the contrary!)
This is part of a very special swap I participated in, invented by Inbaliya for our little warm group of wonderful creative and talented women.
The idea was each participant send a "muse" to another and receive from another a "muse" and let it inspire her to create something and send it back to the muse sender.
So I received the above text... mmmm... I think even after 3 weeks I didn't know really how I feel about it.
There were times in my life I thought exactly that and was naturally depressed by the thought. But love let me the strength not to focus on things that only waste my energy. so I don't. I don't feel obliged to pretend and I don't think people are absurd.
This is part of a very special swap I participated in, invented by Inbaliya for our little warm group of wonderful creative and talented women.
The idea was each participant send a "muse" to another and receive from another a "muse" and let it inspire her to create something and send it back to the muse sender.
So I received the above text... mmmm... I think even after 3 weeks I didn't know really how I feel about it.
There were times in my life I thought exactly that and was naturally depressed by the thought. But love let me the strength not to focus on things that only waste my energy. so I don't. I don't feel obliged to pretend and I don't think people are absurd.
I care
I started making a tears pillow but then my machine broke down and I had to send to repair...
I was not so happy with the fact that I had to start over.
But I started over
Just don't
The whole project is made without the sewing machine. I needle felted with the machine the base and the rest stitched by hand: embroidery, beads, faces, gemstones, letter beads and stars.
Only after I filled and closed the cushion I have decided it won't be a tears-cushion. I made it a mobile to hang from the ceiling..
But when I started over I began the process for real. I read the text over and over again and suddenly I was consumed!
I saw the cosmos and all people look the same. I heard Pink Floyd "another break in the wall" and "if you tolerate this" of the manic street preachers.
And I wanted to say, No, don't live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise.
I saw the cosmos and all people look the same. I heard Pink Floyd "another break in the wall" and "if you tolerate this" of the manic street preachers.
And I wanted to say, No, don't live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise.
Live
you don't have to lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality!
Just don't
Remeber
Be you
Be you
The whole project is made without the sewing machine. I needle felted with the machine the base and the rest stitched by hand: embroidery, beads, faces, gemstones, letter beads and stars.
Only after I filled and closed the cushion I have decided it won't be a tears-cushion. I made it a mobile to hang from the ceiling..
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