There is absolutely no way to count the number of cross stitches in this pillow, which I have designed and stitched myself. Needle work is quite therapeutic and I immensely enjoy it. I can't say that photography had or replaced it, but unfortunately the number of hours every day don't permit me to do everything I like to do.
The colors that I picked to stitch this pillow have a common theme: They are all colors of various types of dates at different stages. I was inspired by these colors when I went to the oasis of Siwa in the Egyptian Western Desert. In this oasis everything in the life of its inhabitants is related to and inspired by their source of life and existence: Dates, even their embroidery. Dates come in all the colors I used to embodier my pillow: green, yellow, orange, red, burgundy and brown. It never stops amazing me how simple things can be an inspring source of artistic creation.
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