Orla
Breslin
County
Kerry, Ireland
SOS, the
standard distress signal: evokes fear and hope. Fear: the situation that
warranted an SOS, and Hope, of salvation. To be saved.
This piece was a direct response to the feeling of human distress, in
environmental catastrophes. And also of feelings of environmental distress, of
the damage we are doing to nature, from man-made catastrophes. What evolved
from the stitching together of these three simple letters was the feeling of
individual distress, whether emotional, physical or economic. How through history,
women and men, created beautiful work, simply because they feared death, from
poverty and starvation. In each individual motif, each stitch is hope, that
they can feed their families, buy medicine, live their lives.
This one small piece of lace managed to create so much thoughts of personal and
global distress, I felt like shouting SOS! I need to shout it; the world needs
us to shout it. And in the final few stitches, came hope. After a disaster,
there is hope.
There is fear and then there is hope.
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