I have always liked things in seried ranks, ornaments that fall into line, borders. That is one of the reasons why I like Paul Klee so much. He plays with monotony building up row after row of elements in some of his pictures – and then does something unexpected to break it.
Today two old books and a black and a golden pen became my toys. I tore out pages of a book on environmental issues – found at Idle Time Books in 18th Street for 1$ – and made them the background for my ornaments.
The inspiration for my drawings came – as so often these days – from a walk down memory lane: an old cross stitching pattern book, issued in Copenhagen in 1944 (Holger Kapel; Moderne Korsting. Baade fugl og fisk). This man, Holger, translated everything into cross stitching patterns – maybe a wise occupation during World War II!!
But I chose the easy way today: no embroidery, just black and golden ink. I borrowed Holger’s images and changed them somewhat to fit into my pages.
What fun on a cloudy and rainy spring day!
And by the way: Paul Klee was the one who wrote in his book Graphik from 1956:
“The art is playing with things – a game where knowledge does not count. Like the child imitates us in his play, so we imitate in play the forces that created and still creates the world”
Hej Jette. Fascinerende, hvad der kan være på spil mellem linierne i bøger!