Embroidery and the development of “home”
Assignment:
“how many words do you know for home (think broadly about the notion of home). (take no more than 5 minutes)”
House
Residence
Domicile
Nest
Den
Pad
Refuge
Cave
My place
Chez moi
Casa
Doma
Living space
Lodgings
Mom’s place
Burrow
Warren
Habitat
Territory
Castle
Village
Hut
Hovel
“Now think about how many words can you think of that deal with Homeless – (broadly)”
Alone
Cold
Vulnerable
Without
Lost
Shame
Poverty
Transient
Uncertainty
Empty
“If an artist were to address the notion of home/ housing/ homelessness; and link this to the notion of common images associated with embroidery, what might be the subject? How might an artist address this within the confines of an embroidered work of art?”
So if I were doing my own satirical embroidered art, I would stick with Home Sweet Home as the wording and stitch a cartoony picture of a mom at her limit. Messy house, kids fighting or crying and mom tearing her hair out.
Or maybe I would do a demolished gingerbread house.
But I think the most meaningful would be a typical home sweet home embroidery of a house and flowers and hearts that had a broken hoop, torn fabric and stitches coming loose, that had been obviously mended. I would incorporate patches and brighter thread and maybe leave some holes.
