Embroidered collage with hand woven fabric, over paper copy of a photograph.
The photo, taken in 1909 by Corbit Studios, shows the Arcade Mall in Bridgeport, CT. There was a Singer sewing machine store, a barber, a dentist and many more businesses. Today, my art & weaving studio is located on the second floor of this mall, and my girlfriend’s studio is a screen printing/art studio called Paradox Ink.
Ruben Marroquin.
Sophie Lécuyer (French, b. 1987, Épinal, France) - Picking Water, 2015 Lithograph
woven (and combined technique) sample collection inspired by primary forest in Yakushima, Japan. All yarns except embroidery threads are hand dyed or painted.
Diana Scherer - Nurture Studies, 2012
“Revealing a part of nature otherwise concealed, German photographer Diana Scherer has photographed ‘Nurture Studies’ to expose the internal root systems of plant and botanical life. fFowers of various color and type have been allowed to mature within diversely shaped pots and containers, some stout and spherical in composition, others long and narrow. as part of the process in achieving the end result of the series, Scherer shattered the vessels which encased each sprouting species, the soil hardened beneath the protective shell. In their finality, the intertwined network of roots is exposed, preserved in the geometries in which they were initially restricted. ‘These photographs of flowers against a simply, monochromatic background‘ describes writer Joerg M. Colberg ‘are beautiful.’” [via designboom]
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