Embroidering your past
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
In 1987, I journeyed from Chicago to Oxbow Art Colony. This map, embroidered on fabric I screenprinted in a Penland class, shows my journey of discovery.
I’m sure that Mom was looking down from heaven last summer, asking “So, now you’re going to take up feminine things?”
As a child, I was so not into dolls or dress up. Give me a set of Legos or a wagon of Playskool wooden blocks, or better yet, let me run around with the boys playing shoot ’em up, and I was happy. Sewing in home ec? Yuk, okay, I had to do it, but once was enough. My sister was the girls’ girl who made her own clothes and did cross-stitch.
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