The Textile Cuisine

Here is my newest textile work with a cooking theme. I finished it some months earlier but much to my surprise I had to revisit it and make some changes. The idea came from an older piece where I visualized the beginning of spring as a big pot boiling with first blooms. "Summer cooking" was made in the summer and I thought it was done although it looked differently from what you see now. I liked it and the response from viewers was great but it dawned on me that people see something different from what I wanted to show. At first it didn't bother me (everything in the eye of beholder of course) but finally I decided to give it another try. Long, autumnal evenings came handy for adding more embroidery stitches here and there. The whole piece remains the same but the small additions make the difference. The sun got some new golden touches too: And the blue leaves appeared: Now you can compare both versions yourself. Hope you prefer "after" th...

So the raspberries aren't that shining but they seem rather strong and powerful (and a bit patriotic considering these are the colors of Polish flag). Maliny okazały się nie być zbyt świecące, raczej intensywnie czerwone (i zaskakująco patriotyczne). Another kitchen landscape completed. And I thought it is a good occasion to reveal some details of the whole concept. As you know, I take the pictures of actual foods/veggies and I show them along the textile works. For example, the picture of blueberries and blackberries looked like this: Kolejny pejzaż kuchenny do kolekcji. Pomyślałam sobie, że to dobra okazja do objaśnienia całej koncepcji. Jak zauważyliście, uszyte smakołyki pokazuję zazwyczaj w towarzystwie zdjęć, na których widać prawdziwe owoce czy warzywa. Na przykład moje jagody i jeżyny wyglądały tak: Sometimes I make the artwork exactly the same as picture, sometimes differently. What I find interesting is the fact that the first is the kitchen "scene"...

So I came back to my kitchen gardens and made some more of them. No to wróciłam do swoich ogródków kuchennych i zrobiłam kilka nowych. They are not mounted on canvas (just ready to frame) Tym razem nie montowałam ich na niczym (można je oprawić jak się chce)  and slightly different but who guess what is the main difference? i są troszkę inne, ale kto widzi najważniejszą różnicę? It may not be so obvious so let me tell you. The next kitchen garden I made after the first one was with lilacs (well, sort of) To może nie być takie oczywiste, więc pozwólcie, że Wam sama powiem. Kolejny ogródek, który zrobiłam po tym pierwszym , miał być z bzami (umówmy się, że to bzy) And you know what? I didn't like it. Why? Because of the tulle: I wiecie co? Nie polubiłam go. Dlaczego? Przez tiul: Believe or not but it happens almost every time - I hate tulle in my artworks. So why do I have them? Because they are lovely - delicate, in wonderful colors and very helpful in some...

Maybe not outside the window, but in The Textile Cuisine definitely - it's Springtime! Może jeszcze nie na zewnątrz, ale w mojej Textile Cuisine zdecydowanie - wiosna! So I will just show you what I'm up to, both in the kitchen Więc tylko Wam pokażę co mnie teraz zajmuje, zarówno w kuchni and in the garden: jak i w ogrodzie: It's good to have longer days and more sunlight - everything became bold and vivid: Bardzo to miłe, że dnie są już dłuższe i słońce jaśniej świeci - kolory od razu nabierają intensywności i mocy: Hope to see the real Spring in full bloom as soon as possible! Mam nadzieję, że ta prawdziwa wiosna też wybuchnie tu lada moment!

Some months ago my fellow artist Ania said, that she liked my "Beet soup" very much and that (as the old one is gone already) I should make another one. Great idea - we have this Polish special for summer, beet soup with more cream and yoghurt, served cool. Yummy! No wonder, just look at the ingredients, directly from the green market: Kilka miesięcy temu, koleżanka artystka Ania powiedziała, że bardzo lubiła moją "Botwinkę" i że koniecznie powinnam (tamta już dawno poszła w świat) uszyć jescze jedną. Bardzo dobry pomysł - w końcu lato to czas chłodników! No to na rynek po składniki. And here is my beginning: A to mój początek: To make you sure that I didn't miss anything :) Sprawdźcie, czy o czymś nie zapomniałam :) Somehow, quilting in spirals was my first choice, just like in the old one. It has to be the matter of cooking (and stirring) real soups, I guess. Moim naturalnym wyborem było pikowanie spiralne, tak jak ...