Here is the second Bad Mood Board I made.
This time I used the photographs of graffiti that I take in Berlin and which are the basis for the embroidered collages.
In bulk we also find my favorite themes:
A photograph of “levitation”, or lethargy , a muscular hyperexcitability caused by the method of hypnosis of Pr. Charcot. Photograph taken between 1876 and 1878, from the Iconography of the Salpêtrière.
Butterflies, death masks (here the death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte)
Finally the Muse 1 tarpaulin is finished. It measures 200 cm by 150 cm. I don’t embroider everything, I wanted to leave the colours symbols generated by the transfer work of my original collage in cross stitch grid.
I embroidered giant feather stitches to disrupt the regularity of the cross stitch.
Here I share some pictures of the small original embroidered collage (30x42cm)
And here are some pictures of the giant cross-stitch tarpaulin.
I needed more time for my experimentation with this large tarpaulin, here are some pictures and one video about the process from the last weeks.
I like the relationship with this format that goes beyond me. The work of embroidery becomes very physical, choreographic. I like the amplitude of the movements that lead the act of embroidering to that of performing.
I connect again to the embroidered performances I used to do a few years ago. A pure Joy!
In the last few weeks I have been working on larger formats from my collages.
At first I am working on the cross-stitch prints but I want to add other embroidery techniques like Lunéville crochet to give more texture and disturbance.
See you in 2 weeks to see if it works the way I want!
I made 3 prints from my D-Ring Muse 1 collage to create a huge cross-stitch. This first print was for my experimentations with different ways of stitching techniques. It looks like Penelope meets Street Art , I will need two lives to work on this one , or 100 hands!
I am working on new small (A4) embroidered collages for the D-Ring project. I am looking for different textures that I will use for the final pieces.
The second art collaboration I made with the painter Florence Obrecht : Encre Brodée 2, Ink on Paper by Florence Obrecht, I create the embroidery with cotton and lurex threads, glass beads.
21,2cm x 16,5 cm, May 2020.
This collaboration with Florence is made for the project Les Amis des Artistes (see my first post here) initiated by her Gallery in Paris and various cultural institutions in order to help artists during the Corona crisis.
The Back side…I do like the other side of an embroidery, of any embroidery! I think they have a fragile beauty in theire unevenness…
Art Collaboration Encre Brodée 1, Ink on Paper by Florence Obrecht, Embroidery made with cotton and lurex threads, pyrite stones, crystal, glass beads and sweet water pearls, 21,2cm x 16,5 cm, May 2020.
Florence Obrecht is a painter working on many themes that are close to my artistic concerns. She works with found images, photographs from unknown people that she reuse in her paintings in order to celebrate their memory.
She asked me to embroider 2 of her small formats ink on paper. She makes them for the project Les Amis des Artistes initiated by her gallery owner Valérie Delaunay and various galleries and cultural stakeholders like the Fondation Antoine de Galbert ,to help artists during the Corona crisis.
This textile Still life is the newest I created , and maybe the last one in this form.
It is made with bird’s wings found on the flea market and a vintage men jacket, it is composed of a branch of rose embroidered with glass beads ans cotton threads , scraps from glitter fabric and plastic, pieces of ribbons .
Yes it is probably the last one, the last still life . I want to extend the embroidery and the sewing techniques on a larger scale.
I may build bigger and larger textil still life for a wall or for a room, or the the city (like the D-Ring the Muses in the city project) by using bigger embroidery tools ( I have to build it ) and threads.
Anyway , I want to share images of The Messenger creation process.
I am fascinated and intrigued by the ex-voto as well as the Sacred Hearts from the 18th and 19th Century. Some use very complex craft techniques like embroidery made with hairs or beautiful bead embroidery mixed with delicate goldsmith work. I built The Messenger by remembering all that.
How to stitch the city, to extend the embroidery outside its traditonal frame? The threads as roots, the threads as rhizome.
The 2nd film from the embroidery’s frontside. the hook is visible, scratching and perforating the paper…and always this obsessive sound, during hours…
Tears in the City: Rebuilding, Repetition, Introspection.
The stich, the stich, the stich. Extended time.
I filmed at the embroidery’s backside when I was embroidering my collage with the Lunéville ‘s hook. The invisible hook in a perpetual motion, perforating the paper. The hook and this repetitive sound of the stich.
Tears in the City
My journey through the city Berlin : S-Bahn Gesundbrunnen
small collage (Déchirures/Tears) and embroidery in progress
The first small collage (Déchirures/Tears) with embroidery for the D-Ring Project.
This project is about Berlin and my everyday journey in this city permanently under construction , permanently between.
S-bahn Charlottenburg , work in progress.
The dark side of the butterfly Still- Life , embroidery made with : Thorns roses, garnet, pyrite, mountain Crystals, glas beads, lurex thread, butterflies (Urania ripheus, Morpho menelaus, Graphium melon), scarabeus, on satin dress, dressmakers dummy, 2018
embroidery on tulle, glass beads, pyrite stones, black spinel stones, coton thread, metal.
Dress Design and photograph Rebekka Grimm Couture, embroidery Merceriesauvage
Embroidery sample, version n°3 “The Death of the Butterfly”,
Origami, black spinel stones, sewed on gray satin rope.
Embroidery sample, version n°2 “The Death of the Butterfly”. The embroidery is made with origami (metal sheet), tulle, glass beads, pyrite stones, black spinel stones.
Sketches and embroidery sample “The Death of the Butterfly”. The embroidery is made with glass beads, pyrite and black spinel stones.
Embroidery made with black glass beads, pyrite stones, black spinel stones, on 3 different ribbons scraps, black silk lining.
Example of use : Necklace:
Embroidery on silk vintage dress (made in korea), I found this silk dress in the second hand shop “Pick & Weight” in Berlin Mitte.
The embroidery is made with labradorite and pyrite stones, seed beads and roses prickles.
Limited collection of hand-made finery, made with embroidered pyrite stones and thorns on vintage leather.
Vergissmeinnicht#2 Hair embroidery on paper 21×29,7 cm April 2014
Augustine ornementale: reworked patterns from the Charcot’s hysteria iconography
(Salpêtrière Hospital-Paris)
Squared silkscreened silk
Embroidery : glass beads, pearls, various cotton and metal threads
on silk-screened printed silk.
