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A Cloak for Courage was conceived by eco-poets kin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler) and designed and made by Larch Rose
kin’d & kin’d:
Kay Syrad
kaysyrad.co.uk
Clare Whistler
clarewhistler.co.uk
Larch Rose
instagram.com/larchrosestudio
The Cloak is in two parts, made from vintage organdie cotton, 300 x160cm, embroidered using an Irish embroidery machine.
The six lines of poetry on the cloak are:
an outer cloak for inner heart; a message from beauty; a snowdrop, lichen, larch; a patterning of touches; a hollowing and a holding; courage, a dare of love.
In the evolution of our thoughts about courage at this time of eco-crisis, we wanted to focus on the other-than-human so there are 48 pockets in the Cloak, 47 containing natural objects gathered locally near our homes in East Sussex. The other pocket contains the drawings of the sound-waves of each of the objects as we imagined them. The embroidered lines are taken from our writings in the presence of the objects over several months.
