The Daily Boost #712
What would you put in your visual diary?
Maybe you’re one of the many Rafters who creates with a needle. But even if you’re not, you might take inspiration from Karen Turner’s “intuitive daily stitching.”
Karen lives in East Yorkshire, England. Back in January 2022, she began to “bring more mindfulness into her everyday” by creating a textured patchwork that “visually represented time passing.”
“The older I get,” she says, “the faster time seems to pass, and I wanted to connect with this sense of time rushing by and consciously to notice a few minutes every day.”
During 2022, Karen worked on a single sheet of metis (a cotton-linen blend), stitching undulating stripes, dense crisscrossed lines, and radial designs. (See photo above, taken by the artist.) Once complete, the piece was 95 inches long, documenting changes in Karen’s emotions, impulses, and aesthetic sensibilities as the months passed.
Karen’s intuitive daily stitching project has continued to evolve since 2022. You can read more about it here.
Have you ever tried to make some sort of visual diary? How would you represent this day in your life?
(My thanks to Karen Turner, via Grace Ebert and Colossal.)
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Indeed time passes faster as we age. Beautiful tapestry.
I sometimes write a haiku to mark a day…what if…I wrote one daily and made a paper collage, a “paper quilt” of haiku? Hmmm , now you have me thinking. ( maybe even folded into small books)
Brilliant idea!
“The older I get,” she says, “the faster time seems to pass”……so resonates for me
I crochet 🧶…..can’t imagine how I could create images with crochet
Thinking on what I would put in my “visual diary” 🤔