Mi Contra Fa

My own piece of history

Looking for pictures of artifacts, I discovered the antiquities auction market.  Did you know that simple bronze metal detector finds can sell for perfectly attainable prices?

As soon as the export filings clear, this sweet little 6th century strap-end is mine!

It was lot 1066, too.  Destiny, I tell you!  Once it arrives, I shall take its measurements and weave a belt that it may be the end of.

KASF 2014 Persona Pentathalon

It's that time again!  And KASF is really nearby.  I want to do something.  6th or 7th cen. Kentish, I think.

Kentish robe - that I've been wanting to make anyway.

Kentish gold-brocaded headband - ditto.

Guthrun performance - okay, this is a stretch to the 6th cen, but any performance would be.

A book?  Calligraphy in the book?  Or embroidery on the robe. Or that crystal ball, but that's hardly worth an entry.  The joined pin suite?  Very modern materials.

Guthrun: Getting on with the poetry

The Poetic Edda has some very powerful pieces in it, so much so that I think I want to make those into a performance, too. 

I realized that I was starting to turn this into an almost Shakespearianos soliloquy, "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" style.  And I don't think I can support that.  What I can support is a backward-looking lament.  "Woe, woe, these are the things that happened to me."

It's such an understated style, most of the time.  Wulf and Eadwacer is possibly my best model, with its mix of immediate emotion and backwards-looking observations.

Thinking of highlighting the parallel between the death of her brothers and the death of her sons (who are brothers).