Kathy Halper, an American Artist was featured in ’embroidery’ , the magazine of the Embroiderers Guild UK.
http://www.kathyhalper.com/blog
Her recent work in an observation of youth culture and social networking. The article in the magazine and the essay on her website give a really good insight of her approach and the context of her work.
I found her thoughts about embroidery very interesting, this is an excerpt:
” There’s this whole issue of embroidery being slowly and handcrafted’. Halper describes and we are dealing here with images that are all quick.so there is a contrast between between that and the speed at which the work was created. […] emphasing the entire tension between transience and permanence, ententes publicity and labor-intensive creation.”
The works a thrilling because they offer the opportunity to love something without ‘liking’it, they are beautiful simply because they are tangible, they are here. The works in ‘Friend Me” offer something else entirely, endurance. (By the author of the article in the magazine)
