I went through a lot of different feelings while I was making these. While stitching my face and the letters I thought the proportions were off and I was going to have to re-do the whole thing. I love my concept and my idea but I felt like the words were way too small for the hoop that I got. I still think I could have made the words a little bigger, but when I added the colors and wove another piece of string through the letters and the face (to make it all look like one line, very proud of myself for thinking of that) I thought it all came together. I really value the meaning of this piece because it's very personal to me. All of my pieces connect back to mental health and people's interactions with one another, and this one relates to a specific time in my life when I was slightly struggling with that (avoiding sad details! I'll move onto the next piece now)
I was slightly worried about printing because I had to mix my own colors with a limited selection of colors already, and I did not have a brayer. Using red, white, brown, gold, and black I tried to make four different skin tones. The first one ended up being a lot more pink than I had hoped because when I mixed the color I did not mix it all the way through. After this color, I felt like I got the hang of it. Instead of a brayer I just used an old soda can and it worked fine. I still need to iron the canvas and perfect a few things, but overall I really like how it came out. This piece is more of a conversation about how everyone is extremely different, and everyone grows up in different ways and live different lives but everyone can all struggle with similar issues (mental health wise/family/socially).
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Julianne
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