Photoneedlepoint

I’m interested in a phenomenon that includes everything approachable in our civilisation (in contrast to the past) when pictures did not exist in amount that exists today. Pictures that are everywhere in our surrounding, (advertising, newspapers, calendar, web, etc…). That includes drawing and painting, but because circumstance and culture that we live in, those are mostly reproductions and kitsch pictures. I wanted to deal with theme which was closely connected to me because gobelin and those kinds of pictures were the view through the period of my infancy.

Bay the way of assumption the gobelins like finished product, without the manipulating with pictures I attempt to transfuse part of reality throughout family, surrounding, expectation, traditional education where is expected from girls that they all do needlework. In this project that I select to do, I accept system of value and expectation, but I also change them to way of my personal conviction and start to represent needlework with my camera, medium which is more closely to me.

Through mapping the gobelin as a part of personal tradition and history, connecting it with contemporary as it is digital photography today, I wanted to point out similarity between these two media. Needlepoint as a precursor to digital photography where each pinprick can represent one-pixel dot on the picture, sending a direct message that the different images and their photographs have numerous meanings.