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Portugal’s Pena Palace
Palácio Nacional da Pena, also known as Peña Palace, is recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal. It is located just outside Lisbon, perched in the mountains above the charming town of Sintra. True to the essence of Portugal, Peña captivates with its blend of Medieval, Christian, and Islamic/Moorish architectural styles. From the…
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Museu de Traje, National Clothing Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
In October 2023, I was fortunate to have the exceptional opportunity of visiting and gaining insights from “behind-the-scenes” at the Museu de Traje in Lisbon, Portugal. A lucky occasion, since the museum temporarily closed shortly thereafter (and is still currently closed) for renovations. The palace was purchased by the State in 1975 with the aim…
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червона калина (updated)
Red Kalyna is a Ukrainian national symbol with deep symbology, rooted in folk tradition, and mythology, found in lore, poetry, and song.1 The red kalyna bush (or guelder-rose/red viburnum) grows wild in the woods, meadows and along riverbanks and is a cultivated, as an ornamental bush, it can be found in many village home gardens and urban…
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Flax, Fibers, and Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Costume
Flax over basketwoven reed vessels in an iridescent metallic crocheted nest. My own art, created around 2005, could be in the storage of a mother of a friend of a friend in Portland, Oregon. I’ve neglected this blog for quite some time. Dipping my toes in again with a post of my first research paper…
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Hippocampus
ἱπππόκαμπος At eight or nine, my Granny taught me how to sew a button. In my 20’s, with my mom’s guidance, this my first embroidery was created. I kept saying- “I don’t know what I’m doing?!” she‘d say “Just keep going.” I never stopped. This image originated from a Mardi Gras debloon (fake party coin)…
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After Bakhmut
This painting is part of a body of work of paintings and embroideries made since the start of russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, with the specific purpose of showing support to my closest companion, a Ukrainian soldier who has been fighting on every front line since the beginning, and continues every day since, as conditions…
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Butterfly Mine
This is the Serbian edge of the Kosovar border. It marks an edge of nato. This was a German/nato checkpoint. Where I injured my ankle badly, twisting it 360° in a perfectly ankle-sized hole, just after taking this photo. This injury put me in a wheelchair and in a “state of the art” hospital (by…
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Between Twilights
From dusk and the gradual falling of darkness we move towards illumination, both are times of twilight. History will record this moment as the actual finale to the Cold War, let it not be merely the pause! 33 years is hardly noticed in a longue durée. Causalities and dead soldiers of the last 2.5 years will…
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Nuclear Plants
Unfortunately inspired by Chornobyl and Fukushima plant mutations April 26th, 38 years after Chernobyl and nuclear blackmail today. The catastrophic nuclear disaster of the Chernobyl power plant, the largest anthropogenic disaster in human history, occurred in Prypiat, a town around 130 km north of Kyiv on April 26, 1986. The root cause of the disaster…
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Synevyr and the Bloodstone
Oзеро Синевир, Synevyr Lake, the largest mountain lake in Ukraine is crystal clear and located in the Carpathian Mountains. Scientists estimate that it was formed in the post-Ice Age period, about 10 thousand years ago as the result of a powerful, earthquake-induced tectonic shift. The lake belongs to the National natural preserve “Synevyr”, and is…
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