H.Gibaldi • A visual poet

Experimenting with this metallic watercolor I found in Helsinki, and updating that embroidery piece I made inspired by Antinous and the pink Lotus 🪷

Which you can read here:

open.substack.com/pub/afairyte...

#poetry #embroidery #pagan #witchsky #handmade #greek #mythology #fiberart #textile

I see you,

my sibling of the moon…

open.substack.com/pub/afairyte...

#poetry #witchsky #pagan #poem #blogging #writingcommunity #authorsky

This fabric is beautiful that I was very anxious while cutting it.
👁️👄👁️

#sewing #sewsky #fashionsky #handmade #craft #artisan #slowfashion #textile #fiberart

that's what I can offer to the algorithm right now: A short, slow and barely edited peek of my work in progress of a Jacket for my next collection, using a vintage curtain fabric that I found in a flea market in n Milan 🌿

#fashionsky #sewing #sewsky #art #handmade #slowfashion #slowliving #craft

New embroidery set up 🪡❤️

#embroidery #fiberart #textile #sewing

It's probably a confession, but when I write about a slow life, I'm actually also trying to convince myself.

Taking things slowly, relaxing and don't pressure myself can cause me a lot of anxiety, as I feel that my mind is still conditioned into an overprotective mindset.

#slowlife

Nice!!

I think it's a nice detail.

Mini #writing exercise 1. Be deliberately cryptic.

Write the first line of your book in a way that creates mystery.

Send it to me if you write one 🤓

Oh
I love this pattern.

It happens with everyone at the end of the day 🥹

#poemsfordays #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetry #supportyourlocalpoets #indiewriters  #poetsofinstagram #blueskypoets
#poetrynetwork #poetsoflosangeles

It looks beautiful.

A bare-chested Indian farmer with a scarf wrapped on his head and a yellow lungi around his waist. Before him, he leads two cows with a rope; behind him is a roped calf. Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Love has subjugated me:
to me this is no surprise,
for she is strong and I am weak.
Formerly I was rich, now I am poor:
everything is lost in love.

Hadewijch, 13th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #Spirituality #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Poets #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #India

It's giving Elizabeth Bathory, and I don't think we need that 👁️👄👁️

The urge to start learning a musical instrument…

Outfit of the day:

I found this knitted vest in a second hand shop in Helsinki and I'm obsessed with it!!

With this brocade gilet that I also got from a second hand shop, and the hemp trousers made by yours truly 🌿

#fashionsky #ootd #slowfashion #sustainablefashion #secondhand #vintage

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1964

Evening dress #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100449

Gift of Mrs. Ernest F. Walton, 1959

Boots #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101310

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this c. 1923-26 ensemble, designed by Decio Rossi for Lucile. The brown and orange silk velvet robe, worn over a silk underdress, is an example of the type of deshabille popular for entertaining at home. V&A collection. #Fashionhistory

And back to work...

#fashionsky
#photography

Obsessed with the pattern

Civility

Rote routes to civility,
A march of pre-set, vacant smiles
that stretches on for endless miles.

Rote routes to civility,
A march of vacant, set replies
beneath the same compliant skies.

#poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #photo #wildlife #blueskypoetry #blueskyphoto

A closeup photo of a golden-brown, Tawny-edged Skipper (or possibly a Peck's Skipper) perched on a thorny green rose stem. The background is a soft blurred gray.

Tiny skipper faces a monumental world.
It is dauntless.

#Poetry #FreeVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Insects #Skippers #Butterflies #Nature #Wildlife #GardenLife

Good luck!!

Worn #onthisday in 2012 by model/DJ Lady Mary Charteris at her #wedding to Big Pink frontman Robbie Furze at her family home, Stanway House, in Gloucestershire, UK. Her friend designer Pam Hogg made the skintight stretch satin and tulle gown, based on a bodysuit in her collection. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Costume of ‘The Troubadour’ for the Rome Opera Theatre. 🎭

#fashionsky #fashionhistory #menswear #opera #ballet #costume #theatre

Costume of ‘La Traviata’ for the Rome Opera theatre.

It was very interesting to find an exhibition about Italian opera & costume in Finland.

#fashionsky #fashionhistory #costume #opera #ballet #theatre #costumedesign #couture

Costume of King Lear, for the Opera theatre of Rome.

#fashionsky #fashionhistory #costume #opera #theatre #ballet

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s designs for the Ballet of ‘Nuit Blanche’ 🩰

Inspired by the Dior floral collections from the 50’s

#fashionsky #fashionhistory #dior #costume #ballet #theatre #couture