{"id":25451,"date":"2019-03-22T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=25451"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T08:54:25","slug":"hills-motte-castles-art-journal-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/hills-motte-castles-art-journal-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Hills, “motte-castles” & art journal spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning lovely ones, here’s another piece of chatter from my part of the world… Zeeland (the Netherlands.) We all are waiting for Spring overhere or at least I AM because days are a bit grey an chilly lately… I guess my longing for Spring made me choose this photo to write a haiku with.<\/p>\n

Friday haiku<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo made by my friend Lena Schreijenberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schapen, zwaar van wol,
\nwachten op de lentezon
\nen de schaapscheerder<\/td>\n		<\/td>\nSheep, heavy of wool,
\nwaiting for sunny weather
\nand the sheep shearer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I submit this haiku to Recuerda Mi Corazon where our lovely hostess Rebecca brings us all together to share a haiku on Friday: Haiku my Heart<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

You may ask: “what is that lonesome ‘hill’ doing there in the middle of that meadow and – of all places – in Zeeland?!” After all, Zeeland (the province of the Netherlands where I live) consists of islands and peninsulas interconnected by dams and bridge and the area is very flat.<\/p>\n

Well, that ‘hill’ is a ‘mound’ (or “Hillock.”) Those are earthen hills built in the 11th century as residential hills. In later centuries there were often defense towers \u2013 “motte-castles” – built on. A motte-and-bailey castle<\/a> is a wooden or stone fortification situated on a raised earthwork. Those buildings are long gone now, but the hills can still be found in the landscape, around a dozen on ‘my island’ Walcheren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK, enough with the history lessons… let’s move on to some creativity: I have two art journal spreads to show you.<\/p>\n

The Chronicles<\/em> are handmade visual year-journals in which I create a weekly spread. On the pages I comment and reflect my days or just try to capture the week in words and pictures. I first started a Chronicles journal in 2010 so this year I am filling my 10th Chronicles journal (you can see all these journals in the gallery<\/a> on my website.)<\/p>\n

The Chronicles of Marit 2019 – Week 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Chronicles of Marit 2019 – Week 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I wish you all a nice day and weekend
\nbring in the sun and keep on rockin’ in the free world!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning lovely ones, here’s another piece of chatter from my part of the world… Zeeland (the Netherlands.) We all are waiting for Spring overhere or at least I AM because days are a bit grey an chilly lately… I guess my longing for Spring made me choose this photo to write a haiku with. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,1510,195],"tags":[1138,1139,1157,1345,1158,1195],"class_list":{"0":"post-25451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-art-journals","9":"category-chronicles-19","10":"category-haiku-2","11":"tag-art-journaling","12":"tag-chronicles","13":"tag-haiku","14":"tag-haikumyheart","15":"tag-mixed-media","16":"tag-visual-diary","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}