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Embroidery and Text Messages
Monday 26th of March 2007 09:04:40 PM
British artist and radio talk show host, Tracy Moberly, has worked in many mediums including photography, metal working, weaving, embroidery, and now text messages. Having saved every text message she has ever received since 1998, Moberly has plenty to draw inspiration from. Her latest piece of art, is from Babyshambles front man, Pete Doherty. On a radio broadcast in December of 2003, Doherty tried to get Moberly to eat jellied eels, but was unsuccessful. “He [Doherty] was trying to teach me how to eat them, and to me it tasted like cold, wet, dead dog and I couldn't even hold them in my mouth,” said Moberly.His text message, ‘Eels slip down a treat’ was the inspiration for Moberly’s latest embroidery project, which will be featured in one of her future exhibits.
“It's like they [text messages] are such a throwaway medium, but the words can be meaningful and deep,” said Moberly. But stitching the text messages has proven to be an arduous task. “They take hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours,” said Moberly. Since she is embroidering each letter, the project is going to take some time. Moberly plans on using many more text messages for her exhibit.
embroidery is painstaking work that takes not only time, but also a keen attention to detail. While most embroidery is done using a machine, those who hand embroider pictures and images are better able to capture more detail. Moberly, who lives on London’s East End, has been inspired by electronic media before and created other forms of art including sonogram canvases of audio diaries by politician Tony Benn.
(c)Thomas Eggar, www.sxc.hu
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