i'm not one for words about pieces of artworks. or explaining in great details. i'm sewing cards. working on a special project. however, this is really where it all started. the polaroid transfer "quilt". transfers of photo images i'd taken. then i started to add actual photos. i was working on a couple different ideas when i started sewing this "quilt". eventually, i wanted to incorporate some targets that i had bought.
however, when i was thinking about how i wanted this piece to end up looking, i didn't like where the target pieces were being put in or would be put in. so naturally, i got out my trusty seam riper and took it all apart.
i never put it back the way i wanted. instead, i had a stack of transfers and started sewing on them. making cards for friends. viola! i sew paper.
the targets were part of a series too and a continual theme. women, body image and marketing. we are targets to what advertisers put out there for us to see. targets how women are depicted in advertisements, movies, even how we are viewed by our community of friends and strangers.
this was around 2003. living in seattle. now 2010 living in portland. still interested in sewing on paper and thinking about being targeted.
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