Decisions

Lauren Diciccio - `Sewn News` series

My intention for this project was to make interventions using traditional embroidery techniques, to disrupt the glossy cover images of magazines designed to capture their intended demographic by preying on needs and most desirable interests.  I wanted my intervention to subvert the underlying image by means of deconstruction and re-interpretation, utilising my own design elements in thread.

Lauren Diciccio - `Sewn News` series  (above)
The work of Lauren Diciccio was hugely influential.  In her `Sewn News` series, entire issues of The New York Times are encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin, the images selected are strongly suggestive of power, leadership and communication.  The image is embroidered onto the fabric applying colours in a painterly way and layering line and thread, with portions of the image remaining as an outline, with threads tangling and unravelling from the fabric