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Sampler Series
(select pieces shown)
cross-stitch on cotton
11 x 14 in
Statement
In
the series entitled Samplers, I explore the dichotomy: the domestic
woman vs. the woman of sexual desire.
Once downloaded from
search engine results, the image is digitally removed from its original
background. The image is then put through another program that
translates its pixels into cross-stitch.
Using the sewing
machine like a drawing instrument, I make choices of where I want the
stitches to lay—often eliminating stitches from areas or only allowing
the machine to stitch the outline of a specific color. This digital
aesthetic juxtaposed with the hand-made associations of embroidery
speaks to the joining together of human and machine—intention and
automation.
Within my series of
Samplers the line has been distorted between the types of websites that
housed the original content. Though some of the figures were remediated
from pornography sites, others were taken from sites that display famous
works of art and fashion websites. By blurring the line between these
female icons the viewer is invited to distinguish between them without
context. |
