Silvie Kilgallon is a conceptual artist working chiefly in embroidery and ceramics. Currently she is engaged in a project to translate all twenty-four books of the Iliad. This blog is the documentation of her progress through the project.
Photo with 1 note
Day 26 (book 2)
Today I finally got more lambda thread, so tomorrow all those lambdas will be gone.
Yesterday I spent some time adding tags to old posts, so now you can search for all pictures from, say, day 7, or day 24. Just search for the number (the actual Arabic numeral, not the written out word) and you can compare posts (hint: so far, I’m working slower on book 2).
Day 23.
And there’s the pattern/text again, for comparison.
All the highest unfilled squares are λs from the previous page of text. I ran out of my lambda colour and haven’t had a chance to buy more yet.
When there’s a letter on the patten that’s highlighted and circled, it means I made a mistake, and that square isn’t actually filled in. Usually it’s just that I marked it as done when it wasn’t; occasionally it’s because I filled it in with the wrong colour and therefore had to cut the stitch out again later.
Photoset with 1 note
Day 22.
Today’s letters were:
ε α φ ω τ ι ν ο β π ζ μ δ ρ α ξ ψ χ υ ε
The second photo is what my pattern looks like ready for the start of next day’s work.
Photo with 3 notes
Day 21.
I decided to keep track of what letters I worked on for this day; they were:
κ, ε, ε, θ, ο, δ, α, ν, η
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