Works

Playboy centrefold with embroidery thread stitchery (specifically straight stitch). Part of my masters thesis done in 2014. Exhibited in Mending in Toronto at Gravenfeather in 2015. Beautifully framed in white shadowbox.

Actual piece: 10.5 x 21.5 inches
Framed: 15.75 x 27 inches

"The powerful ideological construct of needlework as ‘woman’s work’ and all that term has come to mean and the pejorative baggage it carries, obscures the richness of this practice as a potential rhetorical tool."
_{Maureen Daly Goggin, “An Essamplaire Essai on the Rhetoricity of Needlework Sampler-Making: A Contribution to Theorizing and Historicizing Rhetorical Praxis.” Rhetoric Review 21.4 (2002), 312.}