These embroidery samples communicate an idea for a piece that is ‘empty’ when it is first acquired. It is a blank template or structure. The piece may then be finished by its owner, through adding stitches in any form and colour. Once it has been finished, the owner can keep the same design for a lifetime, or they can undo the work and redo it at another time. It can be finished once or many times; remain static, or change as its owner grows and changes. This piece is, therefore, not completely authored by the maker: a framework is provided onto which the owner may work to create an individual and personalised object. The version of the commission housed in the collection would remain ‘empty’, whilst the one given to the commissioner would change over time.
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| Embroidery samples |
