Stitching continued....

I decided to continue with the stitching idea and stitched some text onto a lingerie back that I also got along with the aprons and such. I wanted this to be slightly different to the other pieces so I decided to stitch the text straight onto the object rather than stitching on pieces of text on paper. I wanted to have a piece which challenged the norms of our society through a traditional method that women were restricted to use for art back in the day.

I used black thread as I felt that this would stand out better than the red or teal thread, and I wrote out the text onto the bag so I had a template to stitch onto. The text wasn't as successful as stitching on the screen print strips, but still looks interesting as a whole piece. I did decide to place this piece as well as the other stitched pieces onto a white wall outside of my studio space as I wanted to see what they would look like all together and on a white background - (inspired by the white cube ideas and by being suggested to take artwork outside of the studio). They looked really effective all together, but I think I want to do another lingerie bag piece just for symmetry as I feel it would balance everything out. However if I was to do another piece I think I would try and stitch one phrase rather than 2, and perhaps add other imagery?

I am thinking about having these displayed within the interim shows, but not 100% sure as of yet as I don't know what my curators want me to do. I think it will be a toss between these or my acetate print outs that I want to do at some point. I might even consider putting both up as they use the same text and similar designs, just on different materials. But I think I need to talk to my curators about that.

Things to do next:
*Possibly do one more stitching piece (possibly 2 more?)
*Print text onto acetate - layer images? projection?
*Narrow down text - select one phrase to use perhaps
*Possibly move onto painting on objects - use same text?

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