How to draw MIM-MNE

And so we arrive at the last Friday of April 2020.

Wouldn’t a crystal ball be handy round about now …

Today we have the lovely tangle Mim-Mne from our Italian CZT colleague, Laura Rossi Doria and it’s her first tangle on the site.

Laura tells us a little about herself,

I come from Italy, near Turin, the city where I was born and where I lived until I got married. I love my city and my country so much because “Every stone you step on has a story behind it”, as one of my German teachers said. 

I lived in Germany for 3 years and there I attended an intensive German course every day. But in my head German was overwritten with English.

In those days I was in Italy for holidays and I met Zentangle and fell so in love with it that I wanted to teach it to others.

A few years later I attended the first European certification seminar, it was a bilingual (German/English) and I was able to listen to the seminar in both languages and have conversations with all the people but my sentences were very funny, a bit English and a bit German, like Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars. I and my new CZT friends had a lot of fun!

About Mim-Mne.

My interests are architecture, photography, and Zentangle.

I was looking at a book about Antoní Gaudi‘s architecture (“Gaudì, introduzione alla sua architettura”, J. E. Cirlot, 2008, Triangle Postals, Barcelona), when I saw a very interesting rose window.

I tried to deconstruct and redraw it. Than I started to play with the lines, more than drawing. Mim-Mne (i like in “is” and e like in “leg” ) is the result.

About the name, I chose to join two lexical roots of the ancient Greek mim, imitate, and Mne, memory, because this tangle imitates Gaudi’s drawing and allows us to remember his work.

According to Wikipedia,

“Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style that are divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery. The name “rose window” was not used before the 17th century and according to the Oxford English Dictionary, among other authorities, comes from the English flower name rose.”

We’ve had two tangles on the site inspired by rose windows, CZT Molly Hollibaugh’s Ratoon and CZT Susanna Redaelli’s Rosone. Laura’s Mim-Mne is a really versatile tangle and I had lots of fun trying out her variations including the sweet ribbon-style version on the right.

Laura illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Mim-Mne below where she includes a whole host of possible and different variations and beautiful example Zentangles.

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Happy Anzac Day to all our Aussie Friends!

Tomorrow, April 25th is one of Australia and New Zealand’s most important national commemorative occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

“Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders ‘who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations’ and ‘the contribution and suffering of all those who have served.’ Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Anzac Day is also observed in the Cook Islands, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, and Tonga, and previously also as a national holiday in Papua New Guinea and Samoa.” Wikipedia

Anzac Day is broadly equivalent to our Remembrance/Veterans Day (honoring all who served) combined with Memorial Day (commemorating those who died serving).

For the Fallen
Robert Laurence Binyon, by artist William Strang. Laurence Binyon
Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21st September 1914.

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