Drawbroidery

better pictures as soon as I can arrange for 'em

Establishing Shot

Establishing Shot

Everything is part of its own epic. This is the Credo that shapes this Body of Work. All candid pictures, they have been rendered slightly into a drawing style to evoke a more "created" appearance to the image. Then speech or thought bubbles, iconic tools of Sequential Art, are added to imply a narrative. The Name of this Body of Work also harkens to Sequential Art, specifically the technique of starting a story with a grand image and beginning in Medias Rae.

Knitted Animals

Animals are commonly recognizable forms, and many people empathize with a particular one, thus making Knitted Animals was a natural progression

Exquisite Corpse

After first learning of the "exquisite corpse" (where in multiple artists make a single figure drawing, I wanted to take that as a spring board. I was especially taken with the notion of framing each section, and so I decided to take multiple shots of the subjects' head and shoulders, then torso, then legs, and seam them together, but noticeably. Let the viewer piece them together in their mind. I've only done two so far, and am looking for models for more. Here they are:
Matt

Trentyn

Knitted Nudes

Knitted Nudes

While working at the Blaffer Gallery, one show that I particularly enjoyed was Girls Night Out. It was photography from female artists, including one of my favorites that I knew of before, Rineke Dijkstra. From that show I also learned about Katy Grannan and Salla Tykka. But my favorite piece of the whole show was The Wall by an English Photographer, Sarah Jones. I was most often positioned by it, and the whole of it fascinated me. Eventually I thought that I should make a blanket out of it, but then I thought about some photographs I had taken for a class project, and that I could use them as bases.
So, after learning to intarsia, and working with the photo in photoshop, I started the first one, and finished six weeks later. Even working at a job where I can knit virtually the entire time I'm at work, they take forever.
Most of the finished pieces I have made since then have been shot specifically for this project. and I am going to vary it soon. After the ninth one, (which I will begin tomorrow morning) some will be full pictures, and some will be sections thereof. I have already made some 9"x9" ones, and this next set will be 2'x2'
the piece of colour in each one is mainly for aesthetic reasons, and each picture is hand-knitted over 4-8 weeks.

Kerrisa's Back

Trinidad's Faith

Krystal, Poised

Morgan, Standing

Con*Text

Con*Text
This Project was first started to fill up time. The initial idea came from the ending credits to the Anime Full-Metal Alchemist, in which all the landscape has text from books printed on it. I thought that that was graphically interesting, so I adapted it to my own style. The first of my projects that dealt with closure (the human minds tendency to fill in gaps in information) The text is mostly stream-of-consciousness while looking at the image. Sometimes the text relates to the model, (as in Giving You a Free Soul) sometimes it relates to me (as in Life is Sparkly in the Dark Places), and sometimes it is free association. Often I come up with a title while sketching poses, but sometimes the titles don't present themselves until I reread the text.

Nudesuits

Nudesuits
The oldest body of work that I still consider active (because it's certainly not finished) is my Nudesuits project. Born out of a school assignment, it was inspired by the work of Alba d'Urbano and Greg Friedler. Alba d'Urbano had a performance piece where she made a dress with the printed on pattern of her own skin, then alternatively had a model, or visitors to the art space wear it to be "In her skin." Friedler has an on-going portraiture project in which he takes pictures of the models first in their clothes, then out, and presents them side by side.

My project combines elements of each. I make a portrait in which the model appears to be wearing clothing printed with their own skin. This is a reflection of the self of the model, and also calls to the notion that clothing is the skin we present to the world. Each model is photographed in an area they are comfortable in, first clothed, then nude in the same position, then in photoshop I stitch the two together.





I currently have 12 finished images, and am hoping to one day have around 50. (as such I am seeking models) Particular images I would like to get if possible would be a tuxedo (maybe even a couple in their wedding outfits), Rollerderby players, a Burka, and a swimsuit, although it is the subject's choice of course.

This work has been feature in Bizarre Magazine (June '07) and should be featured again soon.