CHART PACK: 6 color pages
The Wounded Deer
CROSS STITCH PATTERN DESIGNED BY Barbara Ana Designs
This startling pattern is inspired by a Frida Kahlo's painting called "The wounded deer". In the painting, the artist pictures herself as an injured deer, sticken with arrows, the animal's head substituted with her anguished face.
Barbara Ana's cross stitch work focuses on Frida Kahlo's extraordinary beauty, in contrast with the artist's immense suffering. Horns growing out of her head allude to the deer and a single arrow that has pierced her neck, to the deadly wound. The neck disappears in a sea of blue, it almost seems as if Frida was drowning.
Barbara Ana says she was also inspired by a phrase from a poem by Emily Dickinson "A Wounded Deer leaps highest", that she thinks describes well Frida Kahlo's strength, mustering all her will and love in the face of life's adversities.
Frida Kahlo has inspired Barbara Ana two other works, which together form a lovely triptych, as they are stitched in similar colors. One is a portrait, the other features Frida and Diego.
A cross stitch pattern by Barbara Ana Designs.
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Chart info & Needlework supplies for the pattern:
The Wounded Deer
Chart size in stitches: 58 x 92 (wide x high)
Stitches: Cross stitch, Backstitch,
Chart: Black & White, Color
Threads: DMC
Number of colors: 17
Themes: love, joys and suffering, Frida Kahlo, mexican artist
