Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Fair Trade?

Beate Knappe, an artist in Germany, and I have traded small works of art a few times. The small piece above was part of a larger piece that wasn't working for her, so she cut it up into smaller pieces and started hand stitching on each of the small pieces. Because I do not do much hand stitching, I have a sincere appreciation for it in the work of others, and I easily fell in love with this little work of art. Beate's instructions to me were to "surprise her" for the trade, so I made the collage below and sent it off to her.

2 comments:

Beate Knappe said...

oh oh oh what fun - I'm so glad we dit this trade and I can not wait to get your Collage, and tomorrow I'll made the card ready for mailing to you :-)))

gunnelsvensson said...

I know Beate,(through the internet since over two year) we have also done some trades and I know she love this collage, and yes, it was a fair trade :-)