VMF - Open Studios @ City Centre Motel
Grant Project Update - Becoming Pixel (Portrait 4/5)
Glitch Streak (Work in Progress)
Vancouver Cityscape (Work in Progress)
VMF - Open Studios @ City Centre Motel
Come visit me at my studio (Room #211) this Saturday, August 6 & 13th during VMF at City Centre Motel (2111 Main Street)! I’ll have works in progress and finished works for sale (I’m now equipped to take “tap” payments). Stay tuned later this week for an exclusive offer!
VANCOUVER MURAL FESTIVAL
Vancouver Mural Festival returns August 4-14 with a spectacular 11-day celebration featuring daily block parties, 30+ new murals in 8 neighbourhoods, mural tours, talks and much more!
vanmuralfest.ca / @vanmuralfest
Grant Project Update - Becoming Pixel (Portrait 4/5)
I’m happy to share that I finished Portrait #4 from the Becoming a Pixel series last month! This is the least detailed portrait of the series so far and only uses two colours of thread. The portrait has become very minimal, without any clear indicators of my self-image, it's as if I'm being consumed by digital technology...
Glitch Streak (Work in Progress)
Glitch Streak (WIP detail) , 2022, embroidery, Aida cloth
I hit a bit of a road block with this project last month when I started to run out of embroidery thread. I’ve been trying to find specific colours locally for months and finally had to bite the bullet and order the thread online. This meant over the past couple weeks I had been skipping rows where I didn’t have the colour I needed, which left lots of gaps in my WIP.
Glitch Streak (WIP detail), 2022, embroidery, Aida cloth
Good news is that my order finally arrived and I started working back to fill in the gaps where I was missing thread. I’m making very good progress overall and hope to finish this project in just a couple of more weeks. That means if you plan to stop by for a visit during VMF, you’re very likely going to see the work in its final stages. Trust me you want to see this work in person, the photos just don’t do it justice!
Glitch Streak (WIP), 2022, embroidery, Aida cloth
Vancouver Cityscape (Work in Progress)
My focus for August will be wrapping up the Becoming a Pixel series and the Glitch Streak project. But once those two projects are finished, I’ll be focusing most of my efforts on this one for this remainder of the year. With that said, I did make some slow progress on this work in the past couple weeks. Using my sewing machine, I sewed the finished cross-stitched "building strips" onto the main piece of fabric. I still have lots to do on this project, but I’m excited to see where the process is going to take me next!
