SCROLL, SCROLLING, PAPER ROLLING

Library of Alexandria (detail) by Ania Gilmore. Read post by Catherine Nash here.

My fascination with scrolls began when as a child my Grade 3 teacher told us the story of a young sheperd boy who discovered a cache of ancient clay jars in the back of a cave near the Dead Sea. I can still feel the butterflies in my stomache thinking back to that day .....when sitting crosslegged on the floor of a chalk scented classroom.... my teacher came to the part of the story where the lid was removed from one of the jars to reveal ....... a scroll that had not seen the light of day for more than 2000 years. 2000 Years!!! A simplified, condensed story of course but it made quite an impression on me.

Library of Alexandria by Ania Gilmore. See website here.

Many years later I read a short magazine article about the healing scrolls of Ethiopia. I had a fit of the butterflies again which sent me on a fact finding mission.... but my search came to a very disappointing dead end until I began working in the University library. Thrill of all thrills, I found a book.... a whole book! ..... about these amazing artefacts . When we finally had access to the internet and Google, several years later, one of the first things I googled was Ethiopian Healing Scrolls.

Long Ago and Far Away by Dot Krause. See website here.

This post however is not about the ancient scrolls of long ago but rather about contemporary scrolls or paper rollings that artists incorporate into their art.

Who Owns the News by Joan Giordano. See website here.

Who owns the News, detail by Joan Giordano. Website here.

Mixed media collage by Leslie Avon Miller. See Leslie's blog here.

Mixed media collage by Donna Watson. See Donna's website here.


Tribal Offerings Series # 7 by Joanne Williams. See website here.


Stairs to Mauthausen by Robbin Ami Silverberg. See website here.

Reeds of Knowledge by Rosie Huart. See website here.

I've featured these scrolls by Mary Ellen Long in another post but I love them so here we go again. See Mary Ellen's blog here.

Crush by Vadim Katznelson. Acrylic paint and mixed media on board. See more here.

POEM

Mixed media piece by Gabriel Lalonde, See blog here.

"In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, I learn how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art." - Jelaludin Rumi


Ode to Gray by Helena Gullstrom.See more here.

Botanical Notes by Tor Archer. See more at the Donna Seager Gallery, here.


Mixed media by Cathy Cullis. See more here and here.

Black Heart by Cathy Cullis. Etsy shop here.

You could not come (and yet go) by Brigid Collins. Mixed media inspired by a poem by Elizabeth Jennings. See more at the Kilmorack Gallery, here.

Our Two Souls by Brigid Collins. Mixed media inspired by a poem by John Donne.
See more at the Kilmorack Gallery, here.



Ancient Text series IV by Rosie Huart. Website here.



Additional Poem by Andrew Crane. See Andrew's work here.


"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." - Robert Frost

Three Poems about Beauty by Graceann Warn. See website here.