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Hey guys! These are the last of my paintings that I’ve put in my Etsy shop. All my inventory is now up in my shop.

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Type 1 Collagen, 2018 (Final Thesis) - Juliana Scherzer

Machine embroidery on water soluble fabric, cotton thread, acid dye water.

Collagen, a main protein in the body is a basic structural element that gives skin its tensile strength. The arrangement of collagen is crucial to the strength of the skin, healthy arrangement is a woven pattern, often described as a “basketweave” and weaker scar tissue is re-grown in single direction arrangement. The use of textile terms in the medical community interested me. It was an immediate point of note that the first thing doctors compared this bodily structure to was a fabric, the same thing that covers this microscopic structure within us.

The human body has approximately 20 square feet of skin on it. Discovering this fact got everything in motion and gave me parameters, scale, and a fascinating connection between quantities in relation to fabric for clothing and quantity of skin on the body. I am creating large-scale gallery pieces, all in different formations of 20 square feet in size to reflect the quantity of skin on the human body. These pieces imitate the woven structure of collagen in skin tissue, with the aim of drawing connections between the ways bodies and textiles are repaired, and the idea that perhaps humans have an innate knowledge of these patterns. To create these structures I am using machine embroidery on solvey, dried into forms which I then sew into organic collagen formations. The sculpture is a variety of purples, pinks and browns due to the dye scientists use on collagen and other substances under a microscope to make it clear to the viewer. I am combining these pink and purples with warmer browns to draw connections to collagen’s place in our skin.

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Taperstry “born in a weird family”, march 2017.

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A girl in Carpetland, Iran.

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Fiber Art by Tammy Kanat, on Instagram

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The updated version: frida and Diego!! Message me if ur interested in custom work!

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My needlepoint Jaguar rug is finally finished and she turned out great! She measures roughly 3 x 4 feet and is about 80% recycled materials! The most expensive part of the whole project was her custom laser cut claws! This was a really challenging and humbling project and I’m proud of the finished piece! I can’t wait to start a new project! 

BONUS: This is what she looked like five months ago!

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If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring a woman artist every day this month, and highlighting artists in our current exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection which explores a wide range of art-making, focusing on enduring political subjects—encompassing gender, race, and class—that remain relevant today. The show is on view until March 31, 2019.

Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women to everyone’s lists.

Ghada Amer’s choice of thread as a medium is a nod to the devaluation of sewing as “women’s work,” as well as to the modern perception that “craft,” as the production of those who labor for a living, has less intrinsic value than “fine” art. In textiles, dégradé refers to the diminution of a fabric’s color when a dye fades from dark to light. In Heather’s Dégradé, Amer depicts women who seem to be in a state of dégradé, the outlines of their bodies, in explicit poses often culled from pornography, almost dissolving into overlapping forms that appear at a distance as an abstraction. Her choice of words is also a play on women’s “degradation” by the act of sex—traditionally thought to downgrade the social value of women—here depicted with pleasure and sensuousness.

Ghada Amer (American, born Egypt, 1963). Heather’s Dégradé, 2006. Embroidery and gel medium on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Frank L. Babbott Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, and Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund, 2013.50.1. © artist or artist’s estate 

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Tapestry by Alexandra Jean Auger, 16” x 20”, 2018.

So you’re in your late teens, and summer is ending, and there’s a sadness to that—maybe you didn’t swim in the lake as many times as you’d hoped, or have a great adventure, or connect with someone you’d hoped to. You head to the bar to see if any friends are around, and they aren’t, but sitting there you’re all at once overwhelmed with that sudden euphoria that’s contained to specific moments. The clouds are so pink, this song makes your heart burst, and you tear a page out of your notebook to remind yourself of brief pure joy

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Todd Terje - Ragysh [Video]

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new collage!

Une Carte du Corps

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Anatomically correct, Aitch

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Loving these gif animations from @nicolasmenard

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Restocked the somewhat elusive Mean Girls Club by Desert Island favorite Ryan Heshka