Artist Lauren DiCioccio has a great new series of work out now called Sewn News.
She says: "As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostaligic and old-fashioned object. I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft. The pieces in this series are entire issues of The New York Times encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin. I select a photograph from the paper; usually a strong image suggestive of power, leadership or communication; and embroider the image onto the fabric, applying colors in a painterly way and layering line and thread. Portions of the image remain as outline and threads tangle and unravel from the fabric."
Fabulous!
"Design is always a hard task. There is so much that goes into it. Offering something that is creative and communicates style and culture will always be valued."
Posted by: Stephen Jacques | July 13, 2010 at 07:23 AM