flowers for you

this time last year

work from the Fellowship Exhibition 2010. Icelandic landscape inspired embroidery pieces. Each were hand painted warp, hand woven and hand embroidered. 

this piece was my favorite i think. it says "it calls" in Icelandic. 

old projects

Danger Poppies. 2010. Original screenprint. conversational print involving the issues of drug use.

detail of Icelandic Alphabet. 2010. Original screenprint. based on Icelandic alphabet and graffiti.

Horse Chestnut Leaves. 2008. Hand drawn and Adobe Photoshop. I was obsessed with horse chestnuts when I was a sophomore. 

the sewn map

for thesis i am also working on a map of philly in thread, to relate to the embroidery. i sewed it on Sulky water-soluble fabric in about four layers on the sewing machine. 

before i dissolved it...

detail of it before dissolving...

me spraying it away.

more pictures of the map and my thesis to follow! 

COME TO THE EMERGING ARTISTS & DESIGNERS SHOW 

Moore College of Art & Design

20th & The Parkway

Philadelphia

April 28th - May 14th

the next endeavor...

...south philly. 

cross stitchin'

a little sketch i was working on over spring break just for the hell of it. i was tired of tracing things, and i just wanted to draw freehand, so voila. here's my rooster that i eventually want to do in cross stitch or paint.

Thesis update

just got my yardage back last week, and they are a little bigger than i thought. but then again, 3 yards is 3 yards... 9 ft... 108 inches. oh yeah, and they won't be pooling on the ground. i plan on suspending them from the ceiling so the bottom just hits the floor. 

so here i am starting to embroider the yardage. it's definitely going to take a long time, but so far i have two colors done on my west philly print. yay! still a lot to go though...

some details of the embroidery done so far. 

soooo, i absolutely have so much more work to do, BUT i'm in a good spot!