birds and dogs

looking up

looking up close

adding details to the borders on 'hazemannetje', adding interest to the frame.....

what iffing on how borders become part of the main image, how margins become just as important - perhaps more so - than the centrepiece; this reminded me of the illuminated margins in medieval books and that led me to look again into 'the Illuminated Page'by Janet Backhouse* and I thought to myself this is very useful in reading the bible, which I mentioned we were doing in a biblestudygroup in earlier post (not because I believe,  but really because I don't) And yet again, I find answers to unposed questions, ha.

and here, in what I've decided to call Winter Star-with 7 moons, I've added two birds, one to be seen immediately, I might add more colours to the inner bird; 

and a hidden bird, a real sweetie, more like a chick,

and in hazemannetje, a swan, that was already in the fabric, but I've accentuated it with dark red thread
Both dogs and birds feature in many of my pieces, I'm guessing they're also symbols for something in my subconscious, will do some more research and get back to you.

*University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo, 1998