Son of Sam and Me ( June,
2008)- I found a prison
Polaroid of David Berkowitz and
a cell mate. Initially, I just did
a silk screen shirt ( see Buy
It-Shirts). Later, I thought it
might be interesting to use the
silk screen in a series. For this
one I added cross stitch. The
'ever' was done in a type face
I designed for an alphabet
show- 'SkullStitch'.
Godzilla, Mothra, the Son of Sam and Me (August, 2008)- This
piece is embroidery and screen print. This is part of the 'Son of
Sam and Me' series. I'm afraid the possibilities are truly endless.
I've thought of pairing them up with all the super villians, my
family, dogs,aliens, the former cabinet,.... With modern wide
spread media, someone like the 'Son of Sam' was able to really
hold a city at bay in a similar way to how fictional monsters were
able to terrorize Japan.
OOOH YEAH! (November 2008) This
is a combination screen print and
cross stitch. The screen print is of
Jim Jones from some of the final
photos of him. I found those final
pictures interesting because of the
manic quality of them. My
grandmother had cross stitch pictures
in her kitchen with all kinds of cliche
phrases on them. I like the idea of
taking a medium that is very 'Hang in
there'-flowers-kittens and making it
really twisted.