Notes | Brutkey

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

#ArtAdventCalendar In my childhood, I dreamed of having a cute, small and real dragon in our garden. I imagined dragons to be green (and did I say cute?). For my first bigger embroidery I tried to paint with the needle. Even adults could use dragon power!

#embroidery #needlePainting #dragon #dragons #fairytales #intuitiveStitching #Drache #empowering #dragonPower

An embroidered green dragon with reddish brown bat-like wings, spitting fire. Embroidered on white coton flanell, in a vintage oval brass frame.

Showing the first steps with a cartoon.like sketch of the friendly dragon and the first stitches of the outlines. A needle where I start with filling them in green.

A later state of the embroidery in a round embroidery hoop. The outlines are stitched with simple running stitch in dark red and yellow. As I come from drawing, I fill the dragon like I would colour a sketch on paper. I started with a bright yellow green. To give the dragon skin some texture, I use the needle to paint spots in different directions with this green and then add other shades of green next to them.

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4

I think that nature is a better artist than me. Perhaps therefore, my jacket and trouser pockets are always full after a walk in the woods. And then I put the stuff on the table and talk to it, or it talks to me. After all that chatting, I have a new collage. 😉

#nature #collage #intuitiveEmbroidery #mixedmedia #embroidery #forest #bark #acorn #storytelling #NatureMatchCuts #artist #AtelierTetebrec

A rectangular (portrait) abstract collage on a yellow background. The composition is based on a cross with the intersection point shifted to the top right. It's made with different white papers (transparent fluffy mulberry paper and lace print) and nature findings (wild cherry bark, a grea lichen, a very long acorn (like a pendant), an intertwined structure (root?), and some small copper stars. The natural holes in the bark are embroidered with silver thread.

A completely curled and intertwined wooden structure marks the intersection point. If I remember well, it was a root found in a maize field.

A long acorn mounted like a pendant under a real lichen. It comes from a nearly 200 yrs old oak.

The outer bark of a wild cherry, native to our forest edges. It's placed in the focus of the collage. The natural holes let me think of a writing done by the tree - I embroidered abstract signs along these holes (with silver thread). They look like unknown letters from another civilisation.

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

#Restore #follows / #followers. I accidentally blocked the #instance zirk.us (clicked the wrong button and the app had no security between, at least I didn't notice it.) At once, I clicked on "unblock instance" but got a message that I had blocked it. (I still can see it).
@ FediTips help seems to be too complicated for a Sunday morning: https://fedi.tips/help-ive-accidentally-blocked-a-server-on-mastodon-what-do-i-do-now/

I'm sorry, if it hit you, I'll work on it tomorrow. This is a real abyss of Mastodon. 🙄 No easier method?

#MastodonHelp #fedihelp

Screenshot message: By blocking zirk.us (accidentally!) I removed 36 of my followers and 18 of my follows.

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

#FotoVorschlag #PhotoPrompts
'Lost place (Urbex)' @FotoVorschlag@photog.social @fotovorschlag@a.gup.pe

More photos of this very special place of early European industry: https://www.cronenburg.net/carreauclemenceau/

#oil #oilMining #histodon #Alsace #France #museum #industrialHeritage #urbex #LostPlace #petroleum #pétrole

An enormous hall like a cathedral. Only the raw walls remain, the roof has partially collapsed and lets the sunlight in. Nature is taking over the site with bushes and undergrowth: a few young trees are growing inside. The ground in the foreground is littered with rubbish from oil production. It's the central workshop of an oil mine over 100 years old.

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

Auf meiner Fahrt nahe der fr-dt Grenze schaltete ich auf deutsches Radio wegen des Empfangs (SWR1) und hörte irgendwas wie "Extra-Luxus-Sommer" als Vorausschau auf das, was wir in Frankreich als canicule bezeichnen, mit Warnstufe Vigilance rouge (die höchste), mit Temperaturextremen und Warnungen, wie man das durchsteht.
Fühlte sich an wie Clash of Cultures.

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

Did you ever gild #moss? I did! Look behind the scenes of producing my podcast episode about moss and how moss took revenge (I don't know why): https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/5d8402be-ad02-4d23-8c3b-4e42daf6a9b0 Of course you can listen to the episode now! And I interviewed a quite seditious tardigrade!
Just search #NatureMatchCuts on your podcatcher.

#NatureMatchCuts #podcast #ReconnectWithNature #mosstodon #MossMonday #tardigrades #carbonSink #climate #biodiversity #plants #gardening #lawn #nature #sciComm #natureLovers

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

2/2 BTW, I usually reject empty accounts: how can I know if you are a propaganda fake or a spam bot?
If you want to follow me (or others) fill out your #profile, post something, perhaps an introduction https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-customise-my-profile-how-do-i-upload-a-profile-banner-how-do-i-verify-my-account/ Posts with interaction can help small instances to federate = get visible.

Show me that you are a real human! (If you are a plant, please use the Wood Wide Web to contact me).

#Mastodon #following #followerRequest #profile #posts #feditips

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

🧵 For all who like to see my #scrollBook project in progress, I start a thread for new photos.
The idea: Having art small enough for a handbag or hanged on a wall. 'Writing' a #book that can't get copied by AI or people - but can be inspiring for others.
Materials: A vintage wooden bobbin, tea-dyed coton flannel, #teaBags, #sareeSilk scraps, #lace, #embroidery, glass rocailles.
@embroidery@a.gup.pe @textilearts@a.gup.pe @fibrearts@a.gup.pe

#TextileArt #collageArt #fiberarts #wildStitching #mixedmedia #bookstodon #writer

Part of my scrollbook with a needle and yellowish green thread. On a background of bright purple flannel a collage of small white lace, a square of a used teabag and scraps of saree silk. The spuares and rectangles are laid in a collage composition and get fixed with wild, wobbly stitches. One silk scrap in rosé has a beautiful dark lilac and red ornamental print.

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

Finally, the idea for my #exhibition! " #Archaeologists made a revolutionary #discovery in 2033. In the vicinity of pottery shards from the late Betschdorf and Soufflenheim cultures (early 21st century), they found objects reminiscent of ancient #reliquaries. An antique QR code will be provided for you to visit this page. You can also beam up in the form of a hologram." 😎 😂 ▶️ https://www.cronenburg.net/reliquaires/ #SciArt #ArtActivism #BiodiversityShrines #BiodiversityLoss #archaeology #butterflies

A preciously ornated round cheese box with hand-made perlage and braid in orange and green colour shades. Inside is a green-grey moth, Jordanita subsolana. The wings on one side are hidden under a hand-made gossamer of raw silk, my symbol for vanishing. Once native to Alsace, they are now considered to have disappeared.
A tiny precious element in the same green as the moth is a piece of plastic waste that melted into grey concrete. Glass beads are fixed into a golden crochet "flower".

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

#Introduction #newhere

#NatureMatchCuts is a #podcast and #community for #naturelovers and all who search #reconnecting to #nature. It's an adventure to #change #perspectives using #NatureWriting #art #culturalheritage and #science Language: English.

Infos at https://naturematchcuts.net - and don't forget my ko-fi !

We can find and implement #solutions for #future because we are driven to protect what we love from the bottom of our hearts. #biodiversity #ecology #climatecrisis #naturepark