Lenka's Way of LaceSummer Solstice 2024
Posted on June 21, 2024
June 21, 2024
Summer Solstice yesterday and full moon tonight – what an alignment of energies!
After the spring creative surge, summer will rely on feminine strength to nurture all living things, raise the young, bear the fruits, collect the harvest… and complete visionary projects. As every year, Mother Nature and all her daughters will fulfill these enormous tasks with love and kindness.
In times of information overload it’s easy to overlook or even forget life basics. In the same way it is almost impossible to focus on fine detail of delicate handmade lace in the midst of deluge of AI generated images. But it really is just a matter of perception.
May the summer season bring clarity and vivacity to sustain the balance, and divine inspiration to find the way.
Happy lacemaking to all!
Lenka
PS: The photo above is from Summer Solstice celebrations in my first studio in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2004. It features wearable lace made with gold plated copper and semiprecious stones. The world has changed a lot in last twenty years, but the possibility for love – and creative lace – remains the same.
Very Berry Time
Posted on December 1, 2019
If you read this blog regularly, you might remember one post from March, Offering: Red Berries, in which I wrote about my new lace work and said that “… it became my offering to the season that makes us revere cedar, to the beauty of snow and ice, and to the berries who know how to say ‘fertility’ like none other.”
Half a year later, lo and behold, the trees and shrubs in my neighbourhood are laden with huge amounts of berries. Rowan trees, cotoneasters, barberries, hollies, wild roses, … wherever you look there are clusters of fruits, shining in vivid red and orange colurs. What a beautiful sight, and what a joy to see the overflowing cornucopia of nature!
More and more, I am learning to appreciate the order of the natural cycle, which is governed by never changing purpose to propagate. Observing the unwavering flow of seasons, I sense that nature really doesn’t need us to save her. On the contrary, we would be wise to listen to her wisdom if we wanted to save ourselves. In all its complexity, nature’s way is simple, and therefore timeless.
Happy berry time!
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