Sacred Entwinement

beneath the surface

Sacred Entwinement represents a journey in search of the sacred

and that which lies beneath the surface of all things.

These ten works serve to guide the seeker in her travels to the imaginal realm.

Supported by the Walking Stick, the traveler becomes one with the mystery of all of creation.

https://www.surfacedesign.org/sacred-entwinement-beneath-the-surface-by-rhonda-luckey/

In December 2020, I was eco-printing flowers and leaves, wintering in my garden in western Pennsylvania, intended to be given as gifts. At the same time, a dear friend gave me a collection of Corylus avellana or Walking Sticks, whose branches intertwine and grow in an exquisitely twisted and whimsical manner.

When I saw the enchantment of the Walking Sticks, paired with the eco-prints in their ghost-like beauty, I was inspired to transform them applying different fiber art materials and techniques and practicing kintsugi.

As I moved through the months of 2021, quietly, silently, sometimes in the dark night of the soul, I finally found myself on October 27, 2021 completing the last of the Sacred Entwinement's "beneath the surface" ten meditations.

weave the silken threads of your life

The Forsythia Easter Tree ghost print is surrounded by shibori-stitched silk, dyed with black beans and turmeric. The silk surrounds the print and silk strips are woven through the print. The work is woven with cane and sashiko stitched with bamboo thread. (January)

follow your path, beneath the surface

Echos of the Pachysandra and Walking Sticks are embedded in nuno-felt. The crevice is embellished with wool locks and lined with silk, shibori-stitched and dyed in black beans and overdyed in indigo. (February)

do not stand apart, become one

Stitched into hand-painted canvas, the Mountain Roseberry Rhododendron ghost print is sculpted into the bark of a downed cedar. (February)

you are not alone

The Black Chokeberry ghost print is embossed with the veins of leaves, wrapped with vintage lace and sailcloth, mono-printed with a leaf woodblock, and sculpted around the trunk of a dogwood tree. (April)

breathe new life

The echo of the Hills of Snow Hydrangea is embedded in an encaustic painting. The preserved hydrangea (from which the eco-prints were made) rests in its encaustic sea. (May) (out-of-stock)

rest with brittle bones

The Seaside Goldenrod echo print and Walking Stick are stitched with copper into handmade textured paper, draped in lace from vintage linen and embedded in beeswax. (May)

feeling light within

The Azalea echo and Walking Stick are wrapped and draped with threads of raw silk and sprayed with starch. (May)

i am the vine

The Sweetbay Magnolia ghost print is woven with jute, wool, and silk onto a Walking Stick. (October)

here, now, always

The ghost prints of Mountain Rosebay, Lily of the Valley Bush, Japanese Meadowsweet, and Japanese Carpet Box are encased in frames of paper, mono-printed with leaves and woven with waxed thread. The lantern is both bound by the Walking Stick and hangs from it. (October)

from desert to forest…we are one

The Spirea echo print is stitched and Walking Sticks woven with copper thread onto paper, and mono-printed with leaves. The piece is backed with silk organza and hand-made textured paper. (October)