Stitching practice works - Amazing talk with the stranger Today, I had lunch with my friend, Chie, in a sandwich shop. I was explaining my embroidery pieces with her in order to gain the opinion from the viewer, and a woman who sat beside me started to say her feeling with my works. Alanna (the woman’s name) said, “It looks like the islands and could express the longing and loneliness. The blue threads seem like the ocean. When the waves came, the sandcastle would be gone. But it wasn’t really gone. Sands still there...”
I was so thankful to her, her personal interpretation is beautiful. We kept discussing the project, I just felt like meeting a person who could understand me. That was an amazing lunchbreak. To be honest, this piece is a very starting point of my practice. It inspired a feeling of “heart-broken” and “recovered.”, and I associated those as an emotion into embroidery to see how would it go with my visual language. However, even though I am the maker, I sometimes got confused.
(“I am not an embroiderer!” I often want to say it, but why I chose the textile material to work with? I think I am still on the way to find that answer through making.)
(Noted down on 7 March 2019)
