Year: 2019 - ongoing
Edition: Unlimited
Size: Small
Dimension: 40 x 40 cm | 15.7 x 15.7 in
Number of stitches: over 110,000
Thread length: over 1.2 km | over 0.75 mi
Thread colours: 19
This mesmerizing and even spiritual embroidery is a part of the 8-piece series dedicated to Gua Tewet cave paintings. It can be purchased and admired as a single piece of 40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 in), or you can get more pieces from the series to create even bigger art piece for your home, office or business premises. The whole series as a set of 8 measures 80 x 160 cm (31.4 x 62.8 in).
This incredible embroidery depicts a detail of Gua Tewet Tree of Life, one of the oldest and most beautiful cave paintings known. Although most palms on the cave painting are of adults, this detail depicts palms of a child. One is in the centre of the embroidery and the other is seen only partially in upper left corner. They are both ornamented which shows that children probably have had important role in ancient societies, too. And, most importantly, branches connect these small palms with the tree of life, thus with life itself. We have recreated this ancient art in great detail to present it in all its timeless beauty.
Cave paintings are probably the rarest and most enigmatic forms of human creativity, as no one knows why they were created and what their authors wanted to express. Some of them were visited and touched by only a handful of modern people. Gua Tewet cave paintings and pictograms, being over 10,000 years old, are one of the oldest in the world. They are also known as the Tree of Life and are thought to be related to early human spiritual activities.
Put this embroidered piece of human history into your modern cave.