A community artwork for peace
The dolls had fun walking in the lunation cycle at Colab Tower last Monday. They specially loved being at the full moon phase.
We discovered that 12 people have walked on the moon so far.
They have assumed they are the first dolls!
Last weekend at Shoreditch Town Hall in London we installed 300 dolls.
That’s the amount of dolls we made from 2014 to 2024 at big D&Ds events.
We know each doll represents us. However, at the same time, each one of them is a full moon.
Godmother organised the poster’s photos in a beautiful wheel that reminds us a full moon. I’m pretty sure she did it intuitively.
We were celebrating D&D20.
In 20 years there are approximately 248 full moons.
The difference between 300 and 248 is 52 full moons.
52 full moons are approximately 4 years and a half.
I am glad our installation also shows hope for future D&D events.
That’s wonderful!
Natalie, Anna and I spent an afternoon together making full moon necklaces at Wellcome Collection two months ago, just before the lockdown.
I calculated how many full moons they have lived so far. They cut all of them and added them to a golden thread to remind us the sun.
We shared lots of things, including our stories with our mothers, our role as a mother, a very much lunar subject that came up spontaneously.
Hope you all are well and can enjoy the beautiful full moon that is happening today. Some consider it to be the most powerful full moon of the year. It is also known as flower moon.
I like virtual people but I prefer the real ones even more, missing them.
Much health and love to all!
Yesterday we celebrated the Sunday’s full moon making full moon necklaces at BAC.
It was the second time we made full moon necklaces at BAC. First time was in 2014 when I introduced the project at a D&D event.
We worked on four full moons necklaces with Suzanne, Natalie, Karri and Kei.
The youngest maker completed hers with 315 full moons. I’ll meet the other makers soon to complete their necklaces – 676, 449 and 514 full moons.
We always thread them with a golden thread to remind us the sun.
The moon was approaching me through my paintings as well.
I didn’t notice while I was painting them almost two years ago.
When I cut papers to make full moons and place them over each other, they remind us my paintings inspired by the dolls.
It was all there. I can see now.
The project is magically related with the full moon. When it was born I had lived 700 full moons cycles in my life. Without knowing it I decided to create five communities of 700 dolls.
The project is also magically related to the moon as we work with sleep and dreams.
Recently scientists have done experiments to find out the relationship between the full moon and our sleep quality. A July 2013 study carried out at the University of Basel in Switzerland presented evidence that a lunar rhythm can modulate our sleep structure. They say: ‘The lunar cycle seems to influence human sleep, even when one does not ‘see’ the moon and is not aware of the actual moon phase.’
Moon and sleep and dreams and tides and water and emotions… all connected.
A golden thread to remind us the sun.
