Hands of Time Project
In 2014 I worked on a project where I wanted to portray in embroidery the hands and stories creative women over the age of 75.
I picked four women, and after getting their permission to photograph their hands, interviewed them, then created the embroidered pictures below and wrote their stories to go with the pictures. The originals plus the stories were put together in a book that was shown at the 2014 Out of the Box Fibre Fling show & sale.
The hands shows top left belong to my mother,
The hands top right belong to a woman who has had a life-long interest in history and is our local historian.
Bottom left are the hands of a woman who embroidered 28 tapestries from a need to create something positive after the loss of a daughter.
Bottom right are the hands of an artist who I taught, but from whom I learned more than she did, and who continues to make art despite eye sight challenges.
I picked four women, and after getting their permission to photograph their hands, interviewed them, then created the embroidered pictures below and wrote their stories to go with the pictures. The originals plus the stories were put together in a book that was shown at the 2014 Out of the Box Fibre Fling show & sale.
The hands shows top left belong to my mother,
The hands top right belong to a woman who has had a life-long interest in history and is our local historian.
Bottom left are the hands of a woman who embroidered 28 tapestries from a need to create something positive after the loss of a daughter.
Bottom right are the hands of an artist who I taught, but from whom I learned more than she did, and who continues to make art despite eye sight challenges.
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