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 first week of prompts on the theme of horror.
Day 1 • fang • An excerpt from my video poem ossa . ora (2014), featuring my son's baby teeth and my animated haiku poetry.
Day 2 • weeping • My SciArt embroidery eye poem (2016), showing the venations of the eye with a circular poem.
Day 3 • grim • From my symptomatology series: paresthesia (hand 1) (2016). My first ME/CFS symptom was tingling/paresthesias over my entire body. This was my first attempt at depicting it in embroidery.
Day 4 • cursed • The symptomatology of ME/CFS sometimes feels like a curse. For this embroidery, body map (2016), I stitched my ME/CFS symptoms freehand as I felt them over the course of a few months.
Day 5 • claws • My hands are almost always tingling, and sometimes they ache and curl into slight claws as shown in this ME/CFS symptomatology embroidery, push, pull, & tingle (2018).
Day 6 • devouring • ME/CFS causes my tongue to tingle and sometimes ache. This symptomatology embroidery is paresthesia (tongue 2) (2018).
Day 7 • rot • Cancer is a kind of rot. Here is a close up of the uterine polyp that was diagnosed as stage IA endometrial cancer while I stitched this piece: Bleeding Vessel (2022).
Next week’s theme is sci-fi, so I’ll be sharing pieces for each prompt then, too.
This is stunning, powerful, gorgeous work. Wow!!! Blown away that you’ve turned your pain into something so beautiful.
Wow! This is so awesome. My previous girlfriend was an embroidery artist. I wish so badly that I could forward this to her…. But alas. Beautiful work! H