Artwork Description
Swoon – Oracle Deck: Sewing Needle-Mending
Dimensions: 17 x 11″
Year: 2024
Medium: archival digital print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm
Edition: ed. 1/20
Grandma Eva was from a time when quilts were sewn by hand and what became frayed was mended. The sharp point of her needle was fine enough to perforate tough fabrics. Its ability to pass between the membrane of the separate scraps was what allowed it to, with the help of the thread, bring the pieces back together.
The sewing needle reminds us that it is through this intercession between two separate states of being that we find a new state of wholeness. Kinda like how mediation works to bring two disagreeing parties together by first entering fully into the perspective of each before building a bridge that one can use to understand the other, and through that understanding, to mend the conflict.
This card signals you to fix what needs mending. And perhaps by doing so, to bring into being what doesn’t yet exist, like a quilt that goes from a pile of unusable scraps to a beloved object of warmth and beauty. The tools of mending are deceptively humble but undeniably mighty.
The spirt of mending is one of kindness and optimism. It says, these things have value, these things are not beyond repair, these things can live another day.
So what in your life is beloved, if not a bit worn, but by your lights deserves to see another season?
–Swoon