vrijdag 12 april 2013

Sister Missisippi

I made this prayer cloth for the Sister Missisippi Textile/Fiber Arts Project.


This is the story:
On March 1, a group of Indigenous women began their walk from the headwaters of the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico as a healing prayer for the River, for Water. We are calling on all hands and hearts of the world – hands of artists, of young people, of women, of communities, of schools - to create fiber/textile pieces inspired in Water, in the Mississippi, as a healing prayer for the River and to accompany the women and their supporters as they walk the talk. These pieces will be sewn together on April 27-28 with healing, mending stitches to form the Sister Mississippi.

How to Mend Her Broken Heart: The Sister Mississippi River

A vision came of many, many hands coming together in a healing
prayer by creating, weaving, beading, stitching, patching, mending, felting, embroidering, knitting and then putting together the pieces of a long, handmade Sister Mississippi river. The fibers, the stitches, will make her better and she will feel the love from this gesture of many hearts and hands.

Participants should do this art and handwork with all of their intentions and prayers for the River, and all of their support and gratitude for the women who are praying with their walk. People are also invited to share the stories, histories and struggles of their peoples and communities for Water.


6 opmerkingen:

  1. dit is een prachtig initiatief!!

    wat een schitterend en uniek kunstwerk moeten al die aparte stukken opleveren!!

    fijn weekend, martine!

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    1. mooi ! ben benieuwd om het resultaat te zien !
      prachtig ook hoe vele, vele vrouwen van deze wereld, in deze tijd,
      samen komen, opstaan en allerlei akties ondernemen om het evenwicht op aarde te herstellen. Onze tijd is gekomen en niets of niemand kan ons tegenhouden !

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  2. Love, Martine....
    where i am, it is the Rio Grande....Great River
    which is but a trickle

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  3. I think most rivers are nowedays Grace...........its our generations plight to clean them........... Difficult as it may be.

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  4. Mooi initiatief! hopelijk helpt het te sensibiliseren.

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  5. Mooi Martine,dat zo veel mensen een steentje bij willen dragen
    op wat voor een manier dan ook.
    Een heel mooi gebaar.....

    Een goed weekend
    Christiene.

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