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| 2012: Nordic Contemporary Art (Edward Fuglø) |
This is entitled 'Egg Procession for Jan'. Who are the dark hooded figures carrying a bird's egg and torches? Are they warming it to hatch and importantly, what is inside?
One could make an attractive mini collection of all Edward Fuglø's Faroe Island stamps he has created over the last decades
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| 2000: EXPO 2000 (Marianne Heske) |
Another dark mystery, I thought it was the cosmos but no it is - 'Det stille rom' (the still room) though it can be anything imagination can see. The artist Marianne Heske is fascinated by light and sound contained on video tape. She videos and then freezes selected sequences, photographing them with a film camera then scanning the slides into a computer before transferring them onto other types of material. Something we cannot see becomes visible
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| 1999: The Ørsted Satellite |
like the magnetic field of the earth which the Ørsted satellite measures as it orbits our planet.
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| 1998: Definitive - Tourism |
or mountain air and invisible water vapour that will form clouds.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Dark (colour of theme) - See It On A Postcard
5 comments:
I visited Edward Fuglø's site to read the explanations about the egg stamp. Not sure that I have completely understood, but no doubt it is a very cool design for a stamp.
Beautiful designs on the stamps you have chosen today. The shadowy figures carrying the egg is a very special stamp - such a stark design, makes me instantly want to know more about the story behind it. And, since it is from the Faroe Islands, probably quite rare to come across.
Thanks also for the link to the designer's site - now there's a rabbit hole to go down and enjoy today.
I'm glad to read that those hooded figures are monks, and not something more sinister! He has certainly designed many stamps.
The artists you chose this week are really interesting.
Unfortunately, as US citizen, the hooded figures on the first stamp reminded me of the Ku Klux Klan. Sorry. I like your last stamp the best.
Those hooded people (peaceful, and dressed in purple or white or other colours) remind me of the tradition in Spain, the processions during the Semana Santa, the Holy Week before Easter.
So combining the two, my first thought was of an Easter egg... Though in the Semana Santa a holy cross and statues are carried (and candies are given to the people along the roads), nothing to do with an egg.
The stamp made me curious, but neither searching the internet nor the artist's website gave me a clue for a possibly similar Faroer tradition :-)
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