Hand.
I have taken a real interest and passion in stitch work, as it has been passed down in my family for generations. Specifically embroidery, mending, and metal work utilizing alternative materials. I have also been fascinated with the history of women’s work specifically in an embroidery context, as in the past, embroidery was used to convey status of structured femininity and today I come to this medium as a free agent. In this same way I like to forage discarded materials and correlate them to cloth in efforts to create visual interest, trace memories, and explore texture and color. I love the medium because tambour connects you with a very specific time honored tradition from the 17th century, during the many hours I spend working on tambour it is easy to meditate on the qualities of time and hand honored process.
Lavender Aurora
LAVENDER AURORA; Is a turn of the century fainting sofa contributing to my senior collection encompassing A curated sense of design meant to contribute to creating an installation with the capacity to display the depth and breadth of my senior work. Lavender Aurora has been designed to upcycle discarded materials from my embroidery practice and implement that into upholstery bringing a new value to a previously discarded item.
“ For the same way stains of a discarded fabric mark a moment in time, these tambour pieces mimic the essence of hundreds of hours of handwork bringing attention to the beautiful qualities of time; Lavender Aurora sheds light conceptually on juxtaposition, functionality, and dysfunction, and taking discarded items and bringing them into an opulent and luxury setting.”
Style:
Anya Molyviatis x Shop Grapefruit
Hand Woven.
Connecting traditional hand-woven structures with a modern twist.
Herringbone Mixture
80”x 16” Rayon x Cotton
New Lands Runner
100”x 40” Alpaca x Wool x Mohair x Cotton
Classic Quarry Woven
92”x 45” Peruvian Organic Pima Cotton
Extended Development.
Every piece of matter on this earth has a story and a network of connections of how certain pieces of matter have been connected from an idea to its final disposition. I love working with materials intuitively as well as an agent of juxtaposition. These samples are composed of discarded medical material as well as natural fibers to challenge our current direction. Each embroidery represents the nuances of life and the rich history of the past.
Study 2
Nettle, Medical Gauze, Linen, Cotton
Study 4
Sculptural metal casting splint, gauze
Study 1
Woven Tapestry Embroidery, Cotton
Study 3
Discarded items from military first aid kit. Smelling Salts, Vintage Packaging, Gauze, Pearl Cotton
Santa Rosa
Topographical study of materials found on the pacific coast of Guatemala, featuring materials foraged from this specific area. Hand manipulated corroded metal work, sponge-cord, linen, gauze, cotton, pearl cotton, and silver cutwork.
Rèbellion Dècadente.
From Rococo to modernity, traditional to contemporary, the process of stitching with historical technique marks an era in time as a woman then practiced embroidery as an attractive hobby as today stitching is used as an expressive artistic medium. The mark of a stitch holds a value of time and yet the repetition of these same markings translate to a whole new connotation centuries later connected by the same thread.
