The Whale and The World Beyond

 

For the past several weeks Germany was obsessed with a humpback whale’s fate after it got stuck on a sand bed in the Baltic (where it wasn’t supposed to be to begin with). It wasn’t possible to avoid being confronted with the steps of development in the poor creature’s fate. Attempts at rescue, re-grounding, then after several weeks they transported it to the North Sea to be released, now the tracker is not transmitting – is it dead or was the tracker dismantled? 

Still media coverage – and all that time I was wondering whether it would be possible to write a theatre play about this, titled “The Whale”. I would have liked to contrast all these whale drama developments with the real problems going on in the world right now. And there are many that appeared to be of much less concern to the German media recently than the poor whale. I have tried to put all my thoughts about this into a blog post – which did get written, but the play will not. But then I decided I wasn’t going to write about the whale either. I bet there are enough places on the internet where you can inform yourself about the developments. (Breaking news of the day there is a dead whale near Denmark, but not certain yet whether it is the same one.... )

Instead I will be happy that the third box of EQA quilts arrived, that I get to put it up in the CCS in Suhl for German Patchwork Gilde’s annual event and that I will be in a patchwork bubble for a few days.

Bea, Monika and Regina were a fantastic team of helpers. 
Never have I been involved in such a quick putting-up of an exhibition! 
Admittedly, well prepared through prior presentations, beginning in Alsace, and, latest, Finland.
Thank you to everybody involved ahead of us!

View onto a minor section of half of the "Contrast" EQA exhibit 
at Patchwork Gilde's AGM in Suhl.

 

 I know this is a bit of escapism, but I am having difficulties processing the world right now.

 

Stitching helps me, if not the world, unfortunately.