Saturday, May 22, 2010

subversive embroidery a.k.a the devil made me do it

I made these two neck pieces for a show and auction called Romantica, in mid-February this year. Just around St Valentine's Day, the theme was naturally everything conceivable under the title.

For a change, I wanted to do something quite subtle and soft, deceptively conservative and even repressed, but with a twist. So I thought embroidery, that traditional ladylike past-time to ponder all kinds of things on long afternoons, and that I still had to learn at school, was the perfect way to adorn some silk flowers.

Which came with really quite prominent centre parts ; )


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Like a Virgin I (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch





Like a Virgin II (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch






















Both sides were embroidered.

Monday, May 17, 2010

summer meets winter




May 16, 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

something for a saturday night



M.A. Numminen Goes Tech-no
Mauri Antero Numminen & Pedro Hietanen

I'm so snowed under with work that only a song can speak for me now!!! : D

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Helsinki, autumn



Video by Khilou / Näkymä Rannalta: Helsinki, November (2006)
Music by Ehren Starks: Before I was Gone