©2009 Karen Logan
E17 Arts Trail, Hornbeam Centre, London, 2008
The use of handkerchiefs as a commemorative device inspired my embroidery of snippets of text onto vintage hankies. Handwriting, identical to the original was painstakingly hand stitched using backstitch, the text came from various sources, a 1907 postcard and, more personally, from letters and the backs of photographs that belonged to my father.
The 5-meter length of scalpel cut vintage wallpaper was specially created for the corridor ceiling space in the Hornbeam Centre. These works are concerned with themes of memory, nostalgia, tokens and reminders, the familiar made unfamiliar using a make do and mend aesthetic.
The use of handkerchiefs as a commemorative device inspired my embroidery of snippets of text onto vintage hankies. Handwriting, identical to the original was painstakingly hand stitched using backstitch, the text came from various sources, a 1907 postcard and, more personally, from letters and the backs of photographs that belonged to my father.
The 5-meter length of scalpel cut vintage wallpaper was specially created for the corridor ceiling space in the Hornbeam Centre. These works are concerned with themes of memory, nostalgia, tokens and reminders, the familiar made unfamiliar using a make do and mend aesthetic.
