Home as Hat: Andrea Minton Part 2

"Home as Hat: Andrea Minton" 2019

I originally started stitching this series of images with regular thread and came to the conclusion that I needed to use the thicker embroidery floss so that the colors would pop out from the background. Since I am working on an exhibition of this body of work, I decided to redo some of the earlier works that only used regular thread.

This portrait of the lovely Andrea Minton was originally shot in 2016. As you can see in the original Home as Hat: Andrea Minton, the regular thread I used was too small to have any impact on the "hat" I was trying to create. Looking at the structure of the roof in the photograph, I realized weaving the floss would mirror the asphalt shingles. I have not woven the thread before and feel that this treatment worked perfectly for this particular image.

Julie Green
April 27, 2019