make objects that talk — and then listen to them
Sometimes you need to scan the forest, sometimes you need to touch a single tree — if you can't apprehend both, you'll never entirely comprehend either. To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience. All this suggests a useful working approach to making art: notice the objects you notice. (e.g. Read that sentence again.) Or put another way: make objects that talk — and then listen to them.
📖 'Art & Fear' : Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (1993) by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Words by Charlie Mackesy
“Woman and her Chandelier”
A mixed media figure - combining hand embroidery on linen using cotton threads with various papers and acrylic paint. Measures: 21,1 x 24,7 cm
Reflections
Hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on a linen background, 18.8cm x 18cm
The texture study inspired by Claude Monet's brushstrokes, Fields in Spring (1887)
— Tamembro
ink on paper // hand embroidery on skin
(2019)
A hand-stitched one of a kind piece inspired by childhood memories; 'young woman sitting under a tree'.
Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a linen background; it measures: 16.5cm x 11.5 cm.
She's available from my store:
— tamembro, 2020
She carries her sketchbook everywhere, collecting ideas.
'The Sketch Hunter', a hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on linen background; it measures: 17cm x 14cm
She's available from my store:
Inspired by traditional sashiko stitching. Sashiko is a Japanese hand-stitching technique. The basic technique is a small running stitch that follows the grain of the fabric.
— tamembro, 2020
'In the middle | |'
monoprint drawings, acrylic paint, hand-stitched on paper.