Feels like I've been stitching asphalt forever...but I'm done now!! I think it was about two years ago that I declared this piece finished. And then it hung on the studio wall waiting for a sleeve until it began to taunt me. It screamed at me. It wasn't finished it said. Do something! So I did. I took apart the finished edges and decided it needed its asphalt stitched. With thick metallic thread. That took a while, but that was exactly what it needed. And then it said it wanted to be wrapped around stretched canvas. So I did that too. And now it's really finished.
Presenting
City Love Affair 3.
First a few details...
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vintage lace curtain dipped in light gray blue dye, layered over vintage linen |
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machine stitched with dark blue thread and hand stitched with yellow silk |
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bits of paper deliberately left behind |
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walking on wet asphalt towards the light at the end of a tunnel |
And now for the whole...
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City Love Affair 3 ©Natalya Aikens |
Do you understand the need for asphalt stitching? Makes sense to me...
3 comments:
This is spectacular Natalya! I just love the sketchy lines that you stitched into/onto the piece. Beautiful!
Definitely. The asphalt leads you in with the figure
Wonderful piece, love your design! Asphalt stitching?-absolutely! Well done, congrats! deborah
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