Needlepoint often invokes clichéd images of lighthouses, landscapes or floral patterns, but Michelle Hamer has a different approach. Hamer is using this textile craft to explore the urban landscape and “the small in-between moments that characterize everyday life.”
This unexpected imagery is very familiar. The billboards, chain link fences and highways are scenes that we all recognize, but perhaps they are also scenes we overlook. These hand-stitched works help us to have new eyes in seeing the landscape that is around us. In the artist’s words, “This traditional technique exposes an ironic romanticism present between manual pixelation and the digitization of imagery in contemporary society.”
Photography by Marc Morel
Source: designfaves.com