SilkBones
A collection of inspirations and notes expanding on my sketchbooks...
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Some current reading…
The Irresistible Fairy Tale - Jack Zipes
Women who run with Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My Mother she killed me, My father he ate me - Ed. Kate Bernheimer
Bloody.
Bog-down and eider
a map scattered to the winds
Threads in forty shades
hours of silence
and sisters always wait behind"
(Source: silk-bones)
-The Twelve Wild Geese (Sister), Siobhan Rodgers 2008-2011 (Rushes, twine, bog-cotton, pins and ribbon.) Here pictured in Ps2 Belfast
black as jealousy and deep dark earth.
White as snow and pure as love,
pale as bone and snowy dove.
Red as blood, raw as grief
red as birth and pure silk sheath.
Black beady eye and feathers white
red evening sky and his wings taking flight"
The Juiper Tree - Siobhan Rodgers 2011
she’s traced it a thousand times,
down that path and boldly through the woods…
Red velvet on white crumpled sheets
the stars on fire
and him;
red satin scars, a mouthful of pennies
and dark velvet earth"
Little Red - Siobhan Rodgers 2011
(Source: silk-bones)
a litany of time and salt.
a mother’s love
White and fierce
as pale as death and bible black
her wind fallen beauty gone sour
and that apple never falls far from the tree"
(Source: silk-bones)
The Red Shoes - Siobhan Rodgers 2011
snow like sherbet on her tongue
the red maps calling her onward
Home.
And she isn’t china and porcelain
she’s chaos theory and between the lines
she’s fire and patience
and a pair of red shoes…"
appreciated them for what they were
a wild thing
charmed and tousled.
As it was he cut and pulled
and twisted
until all that remained were neat stumps
brown and hopeless"
-Briar Rose, Siobhan Rodgers 2011
(The text on the wall beside the previously posted piece…)
(Source: silk-bones)
Briar Rose - Siobhan Rodgers 2011 (aka me…)
Rose briars, rose petals, twine and satin ribbon
Part of my Thirteen Tales series last year. (I figured it’s about time it was all posted here, so check back, lots more to come, and many more tales too ;) )
Rie Cramer ~ The Elves & The Shoemaker ~ Grimm’s Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The elves began to stitch, sew, and hammer.
I’m still working on those PhD proposals, Commodity Fetishism, Craft, Folklore and Fairy Tales… I badly need a sounding board…
(Source: artofnarrative, via moncabinetdecuriosites)
My Moleskines - Part 2
My Moleskines- Part 1
During my masters I filled five moleskines like this and two just with notes, plus one book for each of my thirteen tales… they were part logbook part mood-board, full of ideas and images, my own and gathered, inspirations and progress, maps, recipes, tests, superstitions, folklore, my photography, mind maps, thought processes, retellings, poetry and entirely made with love… My tutors didn’t bother to read them all but they severed me well and have a thousand more ideas to keep working on through the coming years…
(Source: silk-bones)
