I mentioned the Carte du Tendre that appeared in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Clélie (1654-61 ). I was probably inclined to do so by the topographic map aspect of the reverse side of your stitching, and evident to in some (not all) of the prints.
The carved plates also related to the relief aspect of topographic maps and to landscape, generally.
We also looked at photographs of Maya Lin's Wavefield at Stormking. See also her different Wavefield at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
the drawing of arcs (curves) on the blackboard, had to do with separate parts from which different abstracted representations/models of vulvas/vaginas might be made, just be using the parts in different ways.
there's also the idea of a kind of maze/labyrinth (relating again to the Maya Lin work, and to women's land art in recent decades).
the Carte du Tendre suggests how text (like captions) might be used in representations of vulva, whether or not abstract. those captions might be from literary/poetic sources, as well as from more physiological texts, handbooks, feminist theory, etc etc.
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I would think twice before embarking on embroidery at this point. it is hugely time consuming (which isn't a problem in and of itself), because it would lock you into a specific approach for the long amount of time it would take to achieve any kind of facility with it. there is also the risk of cliché, although that may be less important.
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here's another map of a woman's heart, that appeared by accident as I looked for the Scudery carte.
I mentioned the Carte du Tendre that appeared in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Clélie (1654-61 ). I was probably inclined to do so by the topographic map aspect of the reverse side of your stitching, and evident to in some (not all) of the prints.
ReplyDeleteThe carved plates also related to the relief aspect of topographic maps and to landscape, generally.
We also looked at photographs of Maya Lin's Wavefield at Stormking. See also her different Wavefield at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
the drawing of arcs (curves) on the blackboard, had to do with separate parts from which different abstracted representations/models of vulvas/vaginas might be made, just be using the parts in different ways.
there's also the idea of a kind of maze/labyrinth (relating again to the Maya Lin work, and to women's land art in recent decades).
the Carte du Tendre suggests how text (like captions) might be used in representations of vulva, whether or not abstract. those captions might be from literary/poetic sources, as well as from more physiological texts, handbooks, feminist theory, etc etc.
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I would think twice before embarking on embroidery at this point. it is hugely time consuming (which isn't a problem in and of itself), because it would lock you into a specific approach for the long amount of time it would take to achieve any kind of facility with it.
there is also the risk of cliché, although that may be less important.
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here's another map of a woman's heart, that appeared by accident as I looked for the Scudery carte.
Mei Greene did embroideries of dead animals. Mei graduated in 2017, I believe.
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