View Finder No.43
A fine example of Kyrgyz felt embroidery
Welcome back to View Finder an additional offering for paid subscribers of Journeys Beyond Borders where every other Monday I feature a photo or painting, from somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and explain why it matters.
After last week’s rather long View Finder, on the Great Synagogue of Tbilisi, this instalment is short, but hopefully sweet.
The photo below - taken at Kyrgyzstan’s National Museum of Fine Arts in the capital, Bishkek - shows a beautiful felt embroidery, magnificently titled Under the Sun! by the Kyrgyz artist Galina Fedorovna Turdieva.
I have chosen it for this week’s View Finder because of its bright colours, representing warm sunshine and abundance (look closely, and you’ll see poppies, butterflies and a large bird with fancy head feathers). Here in the UK, the clocks go forward in a week’s time and, in leaving winter behind, hopefully we too will be “under the sun.”
Now, read on for a little on the artist…
