#septtextilelove #stl26day4 … Story-telling … making ‘art dolls’ gives wonderful opportunities to tell stories … This matriarch’s story is intertwined with the cicadas which form part of the soft sculpture and emphasises what appears to be a contradiction about nurturing life and inevitable death... Cicadas spend years underground as nymphs feeding on root sap, emerging en masse as winged adults for a few days, perhaps a week, to mate and lay eggs in tree branches, then die, leaving the eggs to hatch into new nymphs that burrow underground to restart the cycle. The dormant underground phase of the cicada’s life can be from 2-17 years! In my interpretation, this forest matriarch offers a safe place for cicadas to lay eggs, only to cause their own demise … but the continuing life cycle is ensured.
Nice work Wilma, thanks so much for joining us again at TT, hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, love your little sketch, and it does look very Parisian.
ReplyDeleteHugs Wendy
Another fantastic tag Wilma. Love the artwork
ReplyDeleteChrissie xx
Most definitely reminds me of Paris ~ lovely colors in your creative tag art ~ ^_^
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