hartkamer

Spring Green

“Spring is coming to the kitchen”, 46 x 57 cm, textile art

A Treasured Treasury of Beloved Characters (2024).

Wool felt, cotton lawn, strawboard, embroidery & poly cotton thread, recycled PET stuffing, armature wire, plastic eyes.

Here is a collection of characters I met when I was small, all of whom have stayed with me every day since. They are housed, stitched and squished in this felt book, akin to their arrangement in my brain.

Soon I will have to begin. All around me moons have lit up. Have burned. I am receiving a different light, perhaps from inside, like a dim streetlamp in a city park I once heard of. And I try to imagine: a city. How was a city possible, for example? What were the prerequisites for a tree? For the growth of a bench? For a child? Now to take off. There is no time left. I am preparing myself to hover over the face of the non-abyss into my body and onward

Late Night Snow - Jeremy Miranda , 2024.

American , b. 1980 -