Helle, I think you did a marvelous job on the detailing and adding the effects for this one.

Fantastically well done !

Helle, I know just what you mean about working on something and still wanting to do more, and wondering if you should post it...But this is very personal art, it's an act of memory and pieces of your family loves. That song book---which we've seen before in your montages---is a beautiful artifact of your past, and of your father. It's in that old Germanic script, which has long roots in all Germanic countries, including Denmark. The stitches---from the efforts to preserve the book---speak mounds. And when you take the pieces, then color them, then overlap them in the way that only you do, you make an act of homage to your father and ancestry and the old tradition of cherishing books which contained dreams and hopes of whole generations...Even a completely non-religious person looks at an old family prayer book, and wonders what dreams of the past are woven inside it...I think it's a beautiful evocation of old, old manuscripts; and the Q DOES look old and scratched: If you did all that, you succeeded! You blended it to look like the illuminated capital letters of the old manuscripts and, later, printed books. ("Illuminated" strictly meant gold and silver leaf, thus the manuscript was "illuminated" by the burnished metal; and you have a strong gold feeling here. You got it.) It acts like the focal point of the piece---which those huge letters did, in the Middle Ages. And the deep reddening and green washes add not only to the sense of 'age', but of decay, and---strangely---life. The old pages have taken on a new life, as if moss and soil are growing out of them...If you work on this more, terrific! It won't go anywhere during the holidays. But I think you should look at this as an homage to the people who gave you and your family life, as you gather for the holidays. I hope people Zoom, because that's where one sees your work: It's warm, mysterious and loving. And the Q is placed perfectly.

This is so very exciting to see a work of yours in progress! It is a great way to perpetuate your father's memory I do look forward to seeing the final result.

Beautiful document !!

Superb capture Helle. God bless.

This is great as it is Helle - we all get stitched up from time to time!!

I love the "in progress" feeling of this shot, showing the surrounding work space; it gives it even more of a genuine air of artistry, as if your work needed that! Wonderful work!!!

I like the feel this has of old varnish, of great age. And I love seeing it sitting in your work space, not separate. It gives the sense of something just finished, or in process. Whether you "finish" it or not. I like it fine the way it is! Such wonderful texture and color.

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