24/08/2023
A fun fact about this artwork is that it is actually on display upside down.
And no it is not the museum’s fault, I gave it to them the wrong way up. When I was finishing up this painting as well as its sister for exhibition, I sewed the rod pocket on the wrong side by mistake.
The thing is, the actual goal and point of this show was for me to joyfully focus on making stitched pieces that make me laugh or really happy without any editing or judging my intuition. Another rule I made for this series was that I was not allowed to fix any mistakes or redo any decisions, whatever I improvised was final.
Learning to play while staying within set technical constraints and hard creative boundaries is maybe the most freeing artistic exercise I’ve given myself, and it became easier to just sew and make work without freezing up or second guessing.
This looks so much better upside down.
