Louise Glück by Svenja Wahl

[Marie Wintzer]

I say this every time, but Svenja makes stunner envelopes . This one comes with vintage drawings of scenes of daily life in traditional Japan. Beautiful!

The card she includes is a little bit different from what I have seen from Svenja so far (or maybe this is just my impression?), but it retains her sense of balance of text and image and a very efficient way of using it to make us dig deeper. The text she chose is from "The Wild Iris" by Louise Glück. This is the first time I read anything by this TrashPoLitzer Pulitzer Prize winner, here is a bit more of it:

At the end of my suffering 
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive 
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.

Thank you Svenja, your turn to dark minimalist art will undoubtedly get heads nodding. I am thrilled to have this in my collection!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Nice Stripes, Kat! Definitely love-party socks. Here are some Maine stripes (with Erni's shoes, of course):

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

'Love spotty Sock-Nancy's and those feet-gloves, too! 

Me wearing my stripes and getting ready for tomorrow's party...whahoo!

[Marie Wintzer]

Cheryl, we have already seen your gumboots, nothing can go wrong :-))

[cheryl penn]

They outdo Nancy's socks they're so psychedelic! I have to be feeling BRAVE!!! :-)!!

[Marie Wintzer]

Cheryl you have them?? post, post!!

Welcome back, btw!

[cheryl penn]

See what happens when you go away - you miss blogs! Great work, great blog great socky thingies - yip, I have a few pairs - no they are NOT comfortable! They separate your toes which in general like to be in the same choir, singing from the same page, not separated by nylon curtains - but of course, it I need a shocker I do SO wear them :-) X

[Svenja Wahl]

YOU CANNOT NOT!!

;-))))) -,      

(smiling with a sock)

[Marie Wintzer]

I knew you would like them ;-))) They are NOT my feet or my socks, though. So I guess I can't apply for Creature of the Month, unfortunately. Damn, I would have liked that a lot.

Japanese people seem to love them. They don't look particularly comfortable to me (never wore any), but now I CANNOT NOT send you a pair, you'll have to tell me ;-))

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Those socks look fantastic ... are they comfortable, and are those your very own feet, Marie? She is, isn't she, Svenja? She's hijacking it in at least two ways. Gotta love it. :--}

[Svenja Wahl]

Marie, you are hi-jacking your own blog for an application for the "Creature of the month"-contest!!! Great socks!!!