Woman Reading
Woman Reading
Golden Age dutch artist Pieter Janssens Elinga was renown for his interior scenes highlighting the architecture at the time and I'm very glad this needlepoint embroidery take on "Woman Reading" incorporated some of those beautiful lines.
This piece has been kept in pretty good condition! A few scuffs appear on the wood frame but the embroidery itself is solid in all it's moodiness. While pretty direct in it's titling, 'Woman Reading' reminds me of my experiences a child using the light peeking through a window, be it sunlight in the day or a streetlight at night, to illuminate the pages of a book, a comic or a magazine.
Now, there's a zero percent chance "Woman Reading" was reading a copy of GUITAR WORLD magazine, but it's nice to try to put yourself in the place of a subject, to feel out the room in your head, to travel there in your imagination.
So pull up a chair, tuck in close enough to feel the breeze wafting in the window, the bakery down the street carries the smell of fresh bread. Lock into something that keeps your interest, fills you with knowledge or distracts you from the world.