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| Spanish Eyes, March 29, 2015. |
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
RuStitch Rocks San Jose
Strange as it may sound, you enter my tiny Durham apartment through my bedroom. The first thing you see is my bed, with its deep red quilt, and a giant framed print of the RuStitch grid hanging above it.
So it felt oddly intimate to find the same image I see every day on the homepage of the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
It's there because Aubrey Longley-Cook's RuStitch x stitch/video art collaboration is now showing at at the museum as part of the exhibition "Common Thread."
I'm thrilled that my piece, Frame 11, is part of the exhibition. Woot!
Here are the details:
March 7, 2015 – July 5, 2015
A Common Thread, Guest Curated by Susan O’Malley
So if you're in San Jose before the 4th of July, go say hi to Ru. In the meantime, watch this awesome video of the finished project.
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| RuStitch Grid, by 35 artists. Aubrey Longley-Cook, 2013. |
So it felt oddly intimate to find the same image I see every day on the homepage of the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
It's there because Aubrey Longley-Cook's RuStitch x stitch/video art collaboration is now showing at at the museum as part of the exhibition "Common Thread."
I'm thrilled that my piece, Frame 11, is part of the exhibition. Woot!
Here are the details:
March 7, 2015 – July 5, 2015
A Common Thread, Guest Curated by Susan O’Malley
So if you're in San Jose before the 4th of July, go say hi to Ru. In the meantime, watch this awesome video of the finished project.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Can you say penultimate?
No time to celebrate, but my crazy, epic x stitch project has turned the final corner!
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| Spanish Eyes. WIP 3/13/15. |
Last night I finished the penultimate section of Spanish Eyes. One more 50 x 50 stitch section to go!
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| Stitch code for the final section! |
I have no idea what I was thinking when I started this self portrait of my eyes. Why did I design it so huge? (It's 6 x 14.5 inches, or 15.25 x 36.8 cm.) Because I'm insane, I guess.
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| Stitching until my fingers are bloody and raw. Ha! |
Ok, back to work.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Turn your head, Mami
This is my beautiful, complicated mother Min, at around 30-years-old.
Mi mami, mi mami. ("Mi mami," because my mother's family is from Puerto Rico.)
I look at this image, based on a photo taken by my Irish-American father, and I'm back in the position of my five-year-old self. The longing I always felt for my mother. The desperate wish that she would turn her head and look at me. Smile at me.
Turn your head, mami. Please.
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| Redwork Mami, 2015. Hand embroidery on cotton. |
Mi mami, mi mami. ("Mi mami," because my mother's family is from Puerto Rico.)
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| Chain stitch detail of her thick, black hair. |
I look at this image, based on a photo taken by my Irish-American father, and I'm back in the position of my five-year-old self. The longing I always felt for my mother. The desperate wish that she would turn her head and look at me. Smile at me.
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| For my parents. |
Turn your head, mami. Please.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
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