The Language of Love Process
These pages were torn from books, newspapers and magazines purchased from secondhand bookstores and op shops, purposefully chosen either for their subject matter, or their wonderful state of decay – or both, when I was so lucky.
My working process evolved of course as I experimented with different media, and I quickly discovered once I started extensively embroidering them, the more delicate papers required a support. Thin white muslin, some of it tea-stained, was an obvious blank canvas.
The pages are painted and drawn on in ink, acrylic, oil pastel, conté and nail polish; printed using oil of wintergreen transfers; torn up and sewn back together with cotton and rayon thread and embroidered in shades of red, pink, black, grey and blue; collaged with red tin foil and antique Berber sequins (which were shed from a traditional rug I had bought in Morocco a few years earlier); and flocked with red.
Here are some photos taken during the production process, made with the Hipstamatic iPhone app.
