Embroidered samplers typically contain sweet, soothing scenes or inspirational quotes, but this isn’t your traditional embroidery…
Brooklyn artist Elana Adler started recording the catcalls she heard on the street and turning them into these powerful embroidered samplers. She’s amassed dozens of the gross phrases for her project, which she named You Are My Duchess after a comment directed at her in a catcall.
The vulgarity of the quotes are odd against the softness of the medium, reenforcing how inappropriate they are. Adler notes,
You read one sampler. Perhaps you are amused, but as you continue reading and consider the body as an entire collection, the response changes. The inherent filth emerges. It is a beautification of an assault. Perhaps in the moment these statements are meant to compliment, but most don’t find vulgar, highly sexualized statements whispered or screamed at them by random strangers complimentary. Rather, they are an invasion of personal space.
We’ve featured several of Adler’s pieces here, but be sure to check out her website for the rest of the series…
Via: Beautiful/Decay
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