Tapestry Title: Sugared Pansies
Recipe: Mayne Island Pansies
Mayne Island Pansies
For a bit of colour throughout the winter months, I plant a variety of pansies in pots on my balcony, to be enjoyed from my kitchen, dining room and living room. Pansies can be used in decorating many food dishes, either as fresh flowers or as sugared flowers. In a recent issue of Martha Stewart Living, May, 2007, Martha incorporates sugared pansies in her presentation of “Spring Cupcakes”, with these artistic flowers decorating the tops of each cupcake.
To sugar pansies, each flower is brushed with a mixture of 1 tsp water with 1 beaten egg white. After a good coating of the water/egg white mixture, superfine sugar is then sprinkled over each pansy flower. To finish this process, each flower is placed on a piece of parchment and left overnight at room temperature to become crisper. One can store the sugared pansy flowers for up to 3 months, when carefully placed in an airtight container.
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Artist: Madeleine Darling-Tung
Madeleine Darling-Tung
Mad Tapestries: Tapestry weaving is not a fast-paced activity. I savour each moment in the weaving process, manipulating the coloured yarns while continually making decisions specific to the methodology. It is reasonable to ask why one would weave tapestries, when it is really an economically unfeasible activity. Perhaps the answer lies in the thought, that in this sometimes impersonal and complex world, there is something inherently rewarding in creating a living craft form. (The imagery is created at the same time as the cloth.) In the orderly evolution of a tapestry, there unfolds an underlying expression of creativity. Thus without fail, feelings of achievement and satisfaction come with being in control of the placement of each thread resulting in the visual interaction of lines, shapes and texture in the woven composition. As with most forms of communication, tapestry can be a means by which one can comment on imaginary or real events. For me, the tapestry medium functions as one vehicle for self-expression. I appreciate the permanency conveyed in a finished piece, providing the illusion that time can be made to stop, so that one can re-live the moments in its creation, until it is time to move on. Through tapestry, I strive to celebrate images in my immediate environment and create woven stories, to be interpreted without restriction, from the viewer’s perspective.
...All such Madness, but nevertheless still enjoying each and every tapestry adventure.
This Mad Tapestry Studio & Retreat, 184 Spinnaker Drive, Mayne Island, BC, Canada
madeleinedt@shaw.ca
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