Smashed Fate 30" x 30" artwork
Inspired by the Japanese technique of kintsugi this machine embroidered cyanotype features two Victorian gents either close friend or lovers. 30 x 30 printed on up-cycled linen with grosgrain border around frame.’
Smashed Fate is a play on the words smashed plate. This artwork uses a play on kintsugi which is the Japanese craft of mending using gold to join together broken ceramic.
The two men in the center of the plate represent a relationship that would have been disallowed and rejected by the moral codes of the Victorian period. In this work I am attempting to juxtapose past and present, and pay respect to those whose love was vilified and demonized by pre Stonewall society. By fusing together these lost souls I am paying respect to all the same sex relationships that could have been but never were.
Inspired by the Japanese technique of kintsugi this machine embroidered cyanotype features two Victorian gents either close friend or lovers. 30 x 30 printed on up-cycled linen with grosgrain border around frame.’
Smashed Fate is a play on the words smashed plate. This artwork uses a play on kintsugi which is the Japanese craft of mending using gold to join together broken ceramic.
The two men in the center of the plate represent a relationship that would have been disallowed and rejected by the moral codes of the Victorian period. In this work I am attempting to juxtapose past and present, and pay respect to those whose love was vilified and demonized by pre Stonewall society. By fusing together these lost souls I am paying respect to all the same sex relationships that could have been but never were.
Inspired by the Japanese technique of kintsugi this machine embroidered cyanotype features two Victorian gents either close friend or lovers. 30 x 30 printed on up-cycled linen with grosgrain border around frame.’
Smashed Fate is a play on the words smashed plate. This artwork uses a play on kintsugi which is the Japanese craft of mending using gold to join together broken ceramic.
The two men in the center of the plate represent a relationship that would have been disallowed and rejected by the moral codes of the Victorian period. In this work I am attempting to juxtapose past and present, and pay respect to those whose love was vilified and demonized by pre Stonewall society. By fusing together these lost souls I am paying respect to all the same sex relationships that could have been but never were.