Felt United exhibition gallery is online!

Remember International day of felt and Felt United project? Well, finally its gallery is online and you can look at the photos of felt events all over the world here.

Felt United

So it finally happened. First International day of Felt and Felt United project has been completed! Funny, I don't feel like telling a lot about this event. Not because there was something wrong, vice versa - there were so many good, warm things, many mystic signs, lot's of kind hearted conversations, good impressions, feelings, consciousness, insights, lessons to learn and ideas for the future that it feels I just want to keep it inside my heart for a while, hiding and cherishing that little sparkle that makes me feel warm inside...

Yet I will say that the felted Sun we made brightened all the grey sky in there... and I will share lot's of photos of that day.

Photos by Victor Morozov
Photos by Vaida Petreikiene
Photos by Armidas Pronosovas
Photos by Kestutis Migonis
and some of my photos

And the article in Lithunian news site Delfi

Preparation for Felt United

As you might remember I blogged about international day of felt Felt United once. Finally I can announce what Lithuanian group of felters is going to make and where.

There has been lot's of discussions, many beautiful ideas, many ups and downs until we found IT. Summarizing the long path we walked: Felt United colours for this year yellow-orange-red suggested something warm, like fire, shining and bright like the Sun or stars in the sky. We also wanted to make something very Lithuanian, very Baltic... And show it in a symbolic place...

The answer to all this was - recently reconstructed Baltic Zodiac and the Sun that is going through all the signs during a year. You can read a very interesting article about Baltic Zodiac here and I am going to mention just the names of those signs:

1. Fishes (Pisces)

2. Sheep skin (Aries)

3. Rider (Taurus)

4. Twins (Gemini)

5. Bird of the Moon (Cancer)

6. Bird of the Sun (Leo)

7. Crane (Virgo)

8. Scales of the sky (Libra)

9. Deer with 9 horns (Scorpio)

10. Spearman (Saggitarius)

11. Goat (Capricorn)

12. Horse (Aquarius)

The installation will be made in a symbolic place - Ethnocosmological museum in Moletai, under a big glass dome with an idea that the felt installation is to be seen for people on Earth as well as the whole Universe.

Photos

Photos

There is still a lot of preparation work to be done until the opening of the installation on October 3d at 4pm at Ethnocosmological museum in Moletai but there is a little preview of the sign I was making - sheep's skin - with an idea of mythological golden wool. Dyed with plants of course :)

More details to come!

Felt United - a call to participate on International Day of Felt

Last week I received an email inviting to participate in the event Felt United on the first International Day of Felt, October 3d, 2009.

Elis Vermeulen (The Netherlands) and Cynthia Reynolds (Norway) are organizing this event and are calling all felt artists around the World to participate. I said "yes" for Lithuania!

"The theme for this year will be a slice of the colour wheel, yellow through red.

People around the world will be surprised by finding yellow felt on doorsteps, orange felt birds in parks, children wearing red felt vests and husbands carrying bright felt bags to work. There will be felt in museums and felt in markets. There will be felt groups organizing open days and workshops.

...felt in trees, on cars on bicycles and on mountaintops.

This is an open call to felters around the world who have not yet heard about FeltUnited. We are asking felters everywhere to participate on October 3rd, 2009.

Display your felt - on your front door, in the park, along the road or on your car. Anywhere your heart desires... be wild! Have fun! Let the world see what you make".

Love it!

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2009 spalio 3 d. – pirmoji tarptautinė veltinio diena, kurios tema – spalvos  geltona-oranžinė-raudona. Ir mes, t.y. Lietuva, dalyvaujame! :)