{"id":507,"date":"2014-04-17T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=507"},"modified":"2023-05-27T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T12:15:36","slug":"050-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MV_gele_ui_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MV_gele_ui_06-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>A LETTER TO TAMDAGHT&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> mari\u00eblle videler<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dear Bahia,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How are you and the rest of the Montaser family doing? It must be quiet in the Kasbah now all the children went back to school. The blinded journey marks the days we stayed at the Kasbah clearly in my mind. One of the things I remember is our first dinner together. I had to think of it because, last Friday here in Den Helder, Zineb served a delicious meal with couscous. She invited me at her place to meet her mother and her friends. And I got introduced to Zineb\u2019s friend: Aicha. She was born in a little village that you probably know, it is not so far from Tamdaght and famous for its roses: Kelaat M\u2019Gouna. Since seven years Aicha lives here in Den Helder. She showed me pictures of her traditional wedding; she\u2019s an Amazigh woman. The colours of her wedding clothes, very bright orange combined with soft pink and intense dark blue, popped out of her Smartphone. It brought back memories of the photo-shoot we did at the Kasbah: me wearing your dress\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bahia when you gave me the beautiful handmade carpet you sowed the seed for the idea to create \u2018A New Carpet For The Sultan\u2019. Tapestry plays such an important role in the Amazigh culture: I could not ignore this. At the same time I realised that I preferred to make the carpet together with a Moroccan cooperative. So I decided to focus, first, on the pattern for the carpet. I am creating an impermanent design, a sketch on a very big scale, one that will disappear after one day. With this design in my memory I want to come back to Tamdaght to create a carpet together with a traditional female cooperative, like the one you introduced me to. The idea to follow this process was fuelled by the work method of some designers that I read about in the book Azetta (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"032\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Post 032<\/span><\/a><\/span>). They used to travel around the steppe to offer their craft to notables of nomad groups. Their design wasn\u2019t drawn in any way but instilled in their mind. While sitting in front of the weaving loom, they would indicate the most important points of the composition with little knots. Finally to intensify the temporality of my design I am drawing it with coloured sand on the floor. Silver sand and shell sand that I dyed with natural pigments: beets, red cabbage, turmeric and yellow onions (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"043\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Post 043<\/span><\/a><\/span>). I need 61 kilos of sand to cover the lower part of the floor at the place I am working these two moths, 70 square meter of the Pompgemaal in Den Helder (an old industrial building, previously used for pumping up water). To make 10 cups of beet-sand you need 8 beets. First you cook the beets and than you straw the sand in the dark pink water. You let it infuse for one night. The beet-sand needs to dry for three days, in the dark because this colour fades in daylight (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"049\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Post 049<\/span><\/a><\/span>). Naturally I also add sugar to the design for the carpet, which made my think of Moroccan tea, of course&#8230; I\u2019ll create tiny mountains with the sugar to make the eye wander over the carpet. (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"048\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Post 048<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The pattern for the carpet is composed of a few repetitive motives. Circles drawn with yellow and white chalk form the primer and make the connection between the floor and the sand. The main motive is a repeated female figure. She bends her torso and holds her arms in the air. Is she a goddess, a woman dancing, maybe praying or is it a reference to the pose of the statue of the Berber Queen Dihya (7<sup>th<\/sup> century)? The third motive I created just before I started to draw with the sand on the floor: it\u2019s a stylized bird, my \u2018neighbour\u2019 at the Pompgemaal: a little wren. I have fallen in love with this little sand brown bird, recognized by its up-turned tail. In the Amazigh tapestry I also found a reference to a bird, one that is frequently used. Tit\u2019 n-teskourt \u2013 as the eye of the partridge motif is called \u2013 symbolizes a submissive and beautiful woman. It is composed of a large lozenge made up of many small black, red, and white lozenges. When I take another look at the carpet you gave me I recognize this motif. (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Post 012<\/span><\/a><\/span>) I am happy that the birds have been accompanying me during my stay Den Helder, but in Morocco, as well. Remembering the storks of the Kasbah\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quote from my notebook:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Marrakesh, my first morning in Morocco, sounds come through the blinded window. Twittering and chirping of birds, they make beautiful and unfamiliar sounds, an almost tropical atmosphere. Never thought it would be birds that make a stunning impression on me during my blinded journey. Their whistling sounds like music to my ears, I\u2019m totally happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Next week, 27 April 2014, \u2018A New Carpet For The Sultan\u2019 will be presented to the public here. The preparations are in full swing. I am almost halfway the floor I want to cover completely with sand, it\u2019s like a coloured desert (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"053\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariellevideler.nl\/blinded\/?p=567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Post 053<\/span><\/a><\/span>). My knees are killing me. I invited Zined to read a Berber-story: \u2018Hmad Unamir\u2019, for the public that will come to the exhibition. During my research I found this story in the book \u2018Ikkattinn\u2019, Berber stories translated by Harry Stroomer. And I am baking shortbread in the form of the female motive of the carpet. It can be bought on the day of the presentation. The profit will be the first funding of the realisation of the carpet in Tamdaght? To be continued\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love Mari\u00eblle<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Den Helder, April 13, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A LETTER TO TAMDAGHT&nbsp;&nbsp; mari\u00eblle videler Dear Bahia, How are you and the rest of the Montaser family doing? It must be quiet in the Kasbah now all the children went back to school. The blinded journey marks the days we stayed at the Kasbah clearly in my mind. 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