#sleepseries

Trying to get into the groove again..!!😛🙈 My sleep series continues.. 🙃 . . . . #illustration #illustrator #art #sleepseries #artwork #photoshop #digitalart #artistsoninstagram #visual #characterdesign #selfportrait #self #cartoon #humor #fun #sleep #pranisha #illustrator #adobe #design https://www.instagram.com/p/Bos7mfYhuTz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ipnvkkulqqus

And with the help of AcuHerbal let your eyes stay shut until you are fully rested from a beautiful evening of relaxed sleep, to wake with the sun and arise in an energetic fashion! #sleepseries #continued #becauseitisimportant #duh (at Brickell) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoIjQ7NHPfg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1grozm6hvj0nr

Sleepy Head “In dreaming, we are observers who stare into the farthest, most terrible and wonderful places and we come back to the real world with these exclusive experiences.” - Maryam Ashkanian, Contemporary Fiber Artist. Born in Iran 1988, Maryam Ashkanian received a ‘Bachelor of Art’ in painting in 2012 from the ‘Art Faculty of Gilan University’ in Iran. Today she creates sculptures in textiles and resin. In Ashkanian’s ‘Sleep’ series it’s hard to tell where the portrait ends and the pillow begins. With an academic background in painting, Ashkanian brings a painterly touch to her work, the embroidery thread acting as brushstrokes. There is a frenetic energy to each piece. Before reaching for her needle and thread, Ashkanian works from photographs to create drawings of sleeping people. She then embroiders the drawings onto fabric, stitching them into pillows that she fills with stuffing. These pillow sculptures become both the backdrop for the imagery and the form that gives them shape. The process of embroidering the details of the faces onto fabric and filling it with stuffing both warps and changes the images. This process also creates indentations in the pillows that also read as incredibly realistic facial features, allowing light and shadows to play on faces alongside the lines of the embroidered drawings. Ashkanian’s hand-sewn fabric art ‘Sleep' series made an impression in the international art world. Ashkanian chose the finest cloths as bases for pillows, the stitched sleepers lay sprawled in different configurations on a white background, some with their arms outstretched, whilst others hold them tucked into their bodies. ‘Sleep’ series. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #maryamashkanian #maryamashkanianstudio #contemporaryfiberartist #artist #sculptor #painter #sleepseries #pillows #embroidery (at Iran)

A year and five months older and she still loves wedging herself in places ❤️ #babygirl #sleepseries #office #love #ig_kids #igmoments #ig_captures

what a busy weekend. thankful for pockets of quality time with loved ones. #sleepseries #berkeley

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A link to an interview about The Sleep Series, on view at Fenwick Gallery at George Mason University. 

sleep series