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"I went back to my favorite shape of thread structure radiating from the middle. The energy, or emotion gets concentrated into the middle forming a stream of red thread. To me, it is a shape of maternal love, or representation of life in nature. If you see a tree from top, this is how the branches look like. If we could see a tree root from the very bottom, it is the same. So as a structure of a female organs such as breasts and placenta." -- Rima Day on Scriptum XXII

Rima Day uses thread, fabric, and paper to create artwork that is inspired by nature and the human body. Day studied fashion design both in her native city of Tokyo, Japan and later in New York City and worked as a freelance custom ballet costumer in New York City and Connecticut. Her skills as a fashion designer are evident in her beautifully hand-stitched artist’s book. This is our third post in honor of National Embroidery Month!

Rima Day, Japanese, @rimadayart

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“Eu faço arte com jeans usados. Criar essa arte me permite me conectar com um passado distante, que adoro e gostaria de ter vivido pessoalmente. [...] As marcações e gradações de azul causadas pelo desgaste do jeans estimulam minha imaginação. Cada marca e borda desfiada tem uma história. Meus trabalhos apresentam imperfeição, desgaste e decadência como a beleza, uma perspectiva que acredito originar-se da sensibilidade e estética japonesas com as quais fui criada. Os métodos tradicionais de fibra e alta costura que eu uso justapõem tradições do passado com a modernidade, produção em massa e utilitarismo que o jeans simboliza. Como as técnicas de costura tradicionais se perderam cada vez mais na era pós-industrial, pensei que poderia preservar algumas dessas técnicas incorporando-as à arte. Através do meu trabalho, eu exploro as fronteiras que separam arte, artesanato e moda.”

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“I make art from used jeans. Creating this art allows me to connect with the distant past, which I adore and wish I could have experienced personally. [...] The markings and gradations of blue caused by distressing the jeans stimulate my imagination. Each marking and frayed edge has a history. My works present imperfection, wear and decay as beauty, a perspective which I believe stems from Japanese sensibility and aesthetics that I was raised with. The traditional fiber and couture methods that I use juxtapose traditions of the past with the modernity, mass production, and utilitarianism that jeans symbolize. As traditional sewing techniques have increasingly become lost in the post-industrial age, I thought I could preserve some of these techniques by incorporating them into art. Through my work, I explore the boundaries that separate art, craft and fashion.”

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Ref.: https://www.rimadayart.com/ ; https://sprucearts.com/blog/rima-day ; https://www.artfieldssc.org/galleries/art/2020/jos-phine/203311 @artfieldssc

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