Just like Yayoi...

Oh what days we are living through.

I’ve started to realise that even before I go to check the news each morning, my face has become as serious and sombre as Yayoi Kusama. She always looks like she has heard something quite disturbing.

Which to be fair is exactly what is happening to us all.

But how wonderful and glorious does she look here in these artworks by Mexican artist Victoria Villasana
Born in Guadalajara, she is a textile artist, interested in cultures & human spirit, looking at how cultures connect to each other in a fragmented, post-digital world. After studying design at ITESO University in Mexico, she moved to London where she trained and worked as a florist and fashion stylist.

She began making embroidery patterns on top of images as a hobby in 2014. Later on she was inspired by East London street art scene where she began placing these embroidery images in the streets, she became well known in London’s street art community for her rebellious femininity and acute cross-cultural imagery.

The dynamism in her work derives from the way the yarn is left uncut, far below the frame like yet untold stories, giving a surreal aesthetic reflecting in the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Now residing in Mexico, she continues to explore this medium through installations, editorial and comercial work collaborating with artists and brands around the world.

Let’s finish up with one of Amy for Sister Wolf who is suffering from horrible Trump anxiety and rage.

Oh I’m a sucker for stitching.

Victoria has an online shop where you buy prints of her work. Sadly they are not embroidered but if you had the time and patience perhaps you could add your own stitching and thread ( looking at you Linda B)

Queen Marie

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