Remember that embroidered vagina dentata I was working on a few weeks ago? Here it is in all its finished glory! The customer for this custom piece requested an off-white fabric instead of the usual magenta background I usually use for the dentatas. I think it came out well this way, no? If you want your […]
Here’s a quick snap of a custom embroidered vagina dentata I was working on last week in the afternoon sun. My super-shiny faux-snakeskin gold clutch that houses my in-progress embroidery projects turned into a perfect reflector as I was sitting next to my garden window and binge-watching The Good Wife as I worked on this […]
Oh hey, it’s a new addition to the rainbow of embroidered vulvas in the Scarlet Tentacle shop! This particular embroidery was created as a fundraising raffle auction for the 2013 Oakland production of the Vagina Monologues, which was raising funds to benefit the inspiring Communities United Against Violence (CUAV). From CUAV’s website: Founded in 1979, […]
You can’t quite tell from this photo, but the piece whose pattern you can see in the background is over two feet tall by two feet wide. For comparison, the embroidered vagina dentata in the front is about 5 inches wide. 2013: the year of giant embroidered vagina dentatas! Also, can you tell that one […]
So today is Wednesday, and here is a picture of a mostly not-in-progress embroidered vagina dentata. Originally created as an illustrated-ish submission for the Sci-Fit themed third issue of Salacious Magazine — as a queer-identified artist I find the idea of vagina dentatas alluring, dangerous, otherworldly and strangely sexy, so — this embroidered vagina dentata […]
So. Hello! This has not been my week for posting blog things particularly productively, but it has been my week for some epically productive embroidery work! Which is particularly fortuitous productivity, given that the show I was madly embroidering for is being hung tomorrow. I am so happy with how these pieces came out and […]
So! I spent an inordinate amount of time working on my submittal package for an art show only to find that I’d missed the deadline in one of the most frustrating forms of missing a deadline ever: bad planning and the US Mail Service. (That sentence makes very little sense until you get to the […]
They wish we were invisible. We’re not. Let’s dance. So way back at the beginning of May when I was sitting down and plotting a posting schedule of one thing a day for May, June and possibly July, this series was one of the first things I decided I wanted to do: “What happens in […]
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