one stitch at a time...

What do you do when you are stressed or unhappy with your life?

I tend to crawl under the duvet and try to sleep it off but Tokyo-based textile artist Mana Morimoto takes a slightly different approach. She just wants to "shoot thread laser beams out of her eyes and eat music"

Talking about her work where she creates amazing compositions by carefully arranging embroidery threads on pictures, she says

 ‘I started working with threads because I wasn’t happy with my life. I was at a point where I felt like I needed to start creating something with my hands. I find stitching and weaving therapeutic and I feel like I have finally found something I’m good at doing and want to continue doing.’

It began with an old tin box full of beads and embroidery threads collected when she was a child. Later she embellished a friend’s painting with her needle works, embroidered some friends’ photos, magazine pages, record covers, gratings, tickets stub and concert tickets. Today she is weaving on a loom, creating larger scale pieces . The Sapporo-born Japanese fiber artist/graphic designer has spent the last 4 years perfecting her craft, using vibrantly stitched embroidery across nearly any and every medium you can think of...

I'm thinking I should maybe try to follow her example and try to take things one stitch at a time from here on in...

Queen Marie