19.8.11

Objects in Orbit


'Objects in Orbit'.
An exhibition by Andrew Rae and Chrissie Macdonald.
Detroit Gallery, Stockholm.
2 – 4 September 2011

11.8.11

And what will all of this become if not you?

Recently worked on a piece for Detroit's Summer Show.

The embroidery is a mixture of translating snippets of reference images straight from sketchbooks as well as using thread in a more loose, mark making way. I became kind of caught between these two ways of thinking and in the end the whole thing became a bit too tight and more visual/illustrative,- half way through the process I just wanted to stick the needle in and out in a more unthoughtful manner.


There is something about stitch and fabric in reality that I really enjoy; seeing the back thread on the underside,how the fabric behaves when it's slightly pulled, but with this piece at the back of my mind I had the concern that I wanted it to reproduce well as an image.
So, I will go back to the idea of using stitch more like drawing and see what happens.


8.8.11

inspiration overdose

Recently visited the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków.