I’ve been participating in SciArt September for a few years now. Glendon Mellow and Liz Butler came up with some excellent prompts yet again this year, and I am sharing older work based on the prompts. Below are the pieces I shared for third week of prompts on the theme of fantasy. You can see the first week’s horror prompts HERE, and the second week’s sci-fi prompts HERE.
Day 15 • beastly •In the poetry for my liver embroidery, tethered by fluid & ligaments (2023), I imagine my liver as a fleshy, tailed beast.
Day 16 • sword • A scalpel is like a tiny sword. Here is the cut edge of the mesometrium of the uterus in my #embroidery Bleeding Vessel (2022).
Day 17 • glitter • I wove gold thread through the recurrent laryngeal nerve of my vagus nerve embroidery since it feels bright when I am in a ventral vagal state. the wandering ghost detail (2024)
Day 18 • knighted • In the 17th to 19th centuries, an embroiderer might be called "a knight of the needle". Here's my current embroidery in progress, an iliac vein.
Day 19 • royal • In my imaging, my uterus was crowned in a huge fibroid so I used shiny beads to give it some glamour. Bleeding Vessel detail (2022)
Day 20 • enchanted • I stitched some asemic writing on this needle-felted finger bone (2020), making it look like an enchanted object.
Day 21 • destiny • Some of the anatomical decorations in my studio serve as memento mori. It may seem macabre to point out that every one of us is destined to die, but it's also a fact that we must all eventually accept.
Next week’s theme is folklore, so I’ll be sharing pieces for each prompt then, too.
Wildly wonderful!