The Torah Project - Progress Report
Mar. 20th, 2016 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citysparrowA few weeks ago I wrote about participating in a project to create a giant cross-stich Torah scroll. So I thought it was time to post a progress report.
Here is what my panel looks like now:
As you recall, my verses are about how one out of every ten animals in your flocks and herds is to be sacrificed to the Lord. So I drew a flock of 20 sheep, of which two are marked for sacrifice. They are the two that are behind the symbolic red poppies. You can see more clearly in this close-up:
The close-up also shows that my sheep unfortunately don't actually look very much like sheep. Well, maybe one or two do. But I see a sheep that looks like an armadillo, one that looks like a buffalo, and others that look like a bear, a panda, a rat, a dachshund, a couple of cows, and some that look like no animal on earth. I might have to hide some of them behind some strategically placed vegetation. Or else re-do them, but I don't want to re-work it too much for fear of losing that naive folk-arty quality. As Robert Browning would say, I fear I never could re-capture that first fine careless rapture.
The next step is to put a gigantic tree into the big white space between the sheep and the calligraphy. I don't know how appropriate that is to the Holy Land, but I have a fixed idea that sheep graze under huge trees, because that is what I saw them doing when we were in England.
Here is what my panel looks like now:
As you recall, my verses are about how one out of every ten animals in your flocks and herds is to be sacrificed to the Lord. So I drew a flock of 20 sheep, of which two are marked for sacrifice. They are the two that are behind the symbolic red poppies. You can see more clearly in this close-up:
The close-up also shows that my sheep unfortunately don't actually look very much like sheep. Well, maybe one or two do. But I see a sheep that looks like an armadillo, one that looks like a buffalo, and others that look like a bear, a panda, a rat, a dachshund, a couple of cows, and some that look like no animal on earth. I might have to hide some of them behind some strategically placed vegetation. Or else re-do them, but I don't want to re-work it too much for fear of losing that naive folk-arty quality. As Robert Browning would say, I fear I never could re-capture that first fine careless rapture.
The next step is to put a gigantic tree into the big white space between the sheep and the calligraphy. I don't know how appropriate that is to the Holy Land, but I have a fixed idea that sheep graze under huge trees, because that is what I saw them doing when we were in England.