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Statement
In my most recent work entitled Samplers, I
begin exploring a new 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.
- Alicia
Ross
2006
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