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2023-2024
Project documentation (exterior view of book, with images to show scale). This is a project that came out of practicing stitches in my sketchbook. The added pressure of carefully applying each stitch using a specific pressure in order to maintain the integrity of paper helped focus the idea of expressing various lines, patterns, textures, and shapes.
Embroidery Book: (Not) A Book of Symbols
Paper, cotton, ink, watercolor, adhesive.
5.25 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches. 32 pages
First in a series of handmade books using color and texture as a means to create dialogue without words. Drawing with cotton thread, this book is an exploration of line, shape, and pattern expressed through stitches.