Today is the big
municipal election day in Greenland. A
vote today will have a huge impact on where our society is headed. Days before
the elections, among some politicians and voters the tone has been ruthless.
Dragging in the politicians' privacy, their spouses, former addictions or
failures ... Facebook comments with brutal striking pointers have reached headlines
in the News .
Which I really can´t see the importance of in the bigger picture?
or is it only me thinking like this?
Our Past
At all days the
Greenlandic population has always looked proudly at our Nation and our
ancestors. We are attached to each other
as family, friends, or by our past.
We are very proud
of our cultural heritage.
We all
have our past along as our luggage. There are parts that scares us, makes us proud, it hampers and encourages us
... I think it's a day like today we must choose to say - the bad from the past,
we simply can not change, but how we deal with it in the present or in the
future is where we can change.
“Yes I Can!” (said with the voice of Eddie Murphy in the
Movie The Nutty Professor.)
Today I wear my brand with pride. It tells a little bit of our heritage of hand
artwork from our National Costume. That will be the thing from the past I bring along with me. I make my designs with
pride, professionalism, and with the expectation that people will buy them, regardless
if I gain 10 kilos, get another divorce,
or had another sexual preference than other “normal” people… (yes I am
referring to an incident on FB) When I vote today I will vote on someone who
kept it on a professional level.
Handcraft
Let me compare our society with one of our beautiful "avittat"
Patterns- leather embroidery from kamiks. If you collect all the pieces proper it becomes a beautiful pattern full of love,
made by hand, and with pride – if not, it becomes lopsided, unbalanced, and with the
wrong color schemes. I am of the belief that if we do not collect a population
with all its different values, morals or political affiliations in an
association, the pattern will stumble.
So with the same pride we put the pieces together in our National Costume – we should gather our
elected representatives, with respect and determination - we might just be able
to achieve the perfect pattern? I do not know I am “just” a designer ... and
should not speculate on other people's thoughts ...
With this said:
I voted with my heart and choose someone that maintained
a professional tone in the election campaign. And since I know there are more women who sew
our National Costume, I have chosen a woman J
Have a great
election day.
Arctinista
Me and the strong women of my Family on my fathers side. All wearing our own individual handmade National Costume - some 32 years ago.
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