Hilde van Schaardenburg Textile Artist

The Human Seasons
2018
120 x 90 cm

Ilona Hartensveld

Hand dyed cotton fabric by Nienke Smit

Inspired by the poem “The Human Seasons” by John Keats (1818)

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness–to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.