CONTENT NOTE: some goopy persimmon innards
All this art has gone to the toys' heads!
Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's paintings of people inside fruits and eggs, my childhood toy Greeny Peany hid inside a persimmon today.
Six Photos: The Birth of Greeny
Two girlettes out scavenging heard the fruit peeping.
They took it home and cut it open.
They helped Greeny Peany out, and washed him.
The whole ordeal was a little scarier––and wetter and chillier!––than he'd expected.
He is resting nicely now, wrapped in a handknit sock (from Sarah).
This one has me giggling like an idiot. I really don't know why!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. And that’s Jean Petree’s fabric design!
ReplyDeleteThat is what is called a face-up presentation in birth. It is more difficult than the usual face-down way. But obviously, the girlettes have been studying their midwifery texts and knew exactly what to do.
ReplyDeleteGirlettes did well birthing the baby green! Congratulations one and all.
ReplyDeleteFrom Michael's comment I went to Jean Petree's art to find the pattern, but only found another birth on her twitter thingie, no a stabby one but a real one! Said to be in-medicated but the mother was huffing gas so I would say that is some measure of medication.
( I LOVE your brain!)
UN, medicated, dammit. and NOT a stabby one.
ReplyDeleteSPARKLING: Oh, good! Laughter is the best response. :)
ReplyDeleteMICHAEL: Yes! You sent me that fabric a long time ago--five years? Six?
It was Red Hair Girl's wrap, and I've saved it.
You can tell Jean it's still giving pleasure.
MS MOON: Funny you should mention that--it was only after I took the photos that I saw that detail and thought, "Face up, that's not ideal."
But everyone seemed to do well--as you say, the girlettes must have studied their midwifery!
LINDA SUE: I do not know Jean--I got the fabric from Michael, whose musician wife, I think? is friends with Jean.
The persimmon was not medicated, except with persimmon juice.
Jean designed the fabric, and I told her that if she were to have it printed in cotton lawn I would make a dress from it. Several weeks passed, and a package of material arrived in the mail. I’m still wearing the dress. Jean is a brilliant and multitalented person (music and art, and much more) who has been my friend for 40 plus years. We met as flutists at Juilliard, and are both string players by choice now.
ReplyDeleteThanks, anon. (Elaine!)--for giving the background to the cloth. My favorite and first girlette wore it and I love the scrap I have left. It must make a beautiful dress!
ReplyDeleteJean sounds amazing.
Frex = Fresca