Is it possible to embroider one’s experience of a walk?
During the Covid-19 lockdowns in Greece, it was obligatory to send a text message to an official number upon leaving the house. The message had to state one’s name and a number, standing for one the six allowed types of metakínisi, meaning commute or movement.
Texting my name and the number 6 allowed me to go on a walk of max. two hours around my neighbourhood, as a form of phyiscial exercise. During these daily walks, I took photos of things that caught my eye; a napkin on the ground, a beautiful door, graffiti on corrugated sheet metal... Back at home, I translated these observations into embroideries. The base is cotton that I dyed with household products.
︎ On view at Culture Channel, Cheapart Athens, 2020 [GR].
During the Covid-19 lockdowns in Greece, it was obligatory to send a text message to an official number upon leaving the house. The message had to state one’s name and a number, standing for one the six allowed types of metakínisi, meaning commute or movement.
Texting my name and the number 6 allowed me to go on a walk of max. two hours around my neighbourhood, as a form of phyiscial exercise. During these daily walks, I took photos of things that caught my eye; a napkin on the ground, a beautiful door, graffiti on corrugated sheet metal... Back at home, I translated these observations into embroideries. The base is cotton that I dyed with household products.
︎ On view at Culture Channel, Cheapart Athens, 2020 [GR].
