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MDJ: Muzyka Dla Jeży Papier Projekt

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Overhead view of the hat with accessories. The MDJ Papier project, in collaboration with Muzyka Dla Jeży [1] , is my attempt at a more contemporary and involved way of working with embroidery and the context of where and why it is made. It is inspired by the electronic ambient music created by Igor Torbicki and Jakub Pawlak. I really enjoyed listening to their first album Muzyka Dla Jeży [2] and following Zapętla [3] EP. Both giving off strong emotions that I caught onto and honed in to work out shapes, colours and compositions. I experimented with a similar working process in my BA graduate work, Cuh Opilamonnia Rs , but only as an element of a whole project, so this was my chance to really focus and refine those ideas. MDJ isn’t music that I find myself listening to every day, but it’s something I began to admire because of the way it stayed in my mind, a bit like reading a book. Getting deeply engrossed, but only when you hold it and open it and stare. I was privy to some of the b...
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Cuh Opilamonnia Rs: HH D

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  All diamonds overlayed together.  Forming a heart with your hands tends to produce a diamond-like shape in the middle stages of the action, just after intention and before completion. Embroidery is likewise an art focused on the process, and certain parallels like the transience and unimportance of the process can be applied to this gesture. Embroidery and various other types of media, like cinema, music, usually don't disclose their working process to the consumer. Not that they’re not important, sometimes it’s to protect specific techniques or ideas from competitors. When designing motifs for my graduate piece, I wanted to effectively distil themes relating to relationships, familial, romantic, and friendly into shapes that could permeate my piece without being noticed outright. Hidden in the final result, whilst being evident in the process. To achieve this, I mimicked the way smear frames capture the feeling of motion in between key frames in movies with multiple distort...
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Location: London, UK
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"Blueprint": Design and Embroidery Overview

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  Closeup photo of "Blueprint" “Blueprint” is about figuring out. Every shape present and outlined with chain stitch and buttonhole represents areas of a city and country I’m unfamiliar with. No city in particular and no country that exists. Just shapes formed from how my hand moved while thinking about people close to me.  The first step in the process is documenting what you don’t know. As far as I know, embroidery is something that I force into helping me understand things. The actualisation of this intention can be an overlapping second layer, working from the order of embroidery, that plays with the first. I chose the buttonhole stitch as a consistent technique in this stage because a neutral element had to be included, one that could represent me. The way your train of thought sticks to a set of tracks when you’re focused on an idea and intention. Appearing in the repetitive and uniform structure of every stitch, that kind of consistency can be related.  Each mix of...
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Location: London, UK
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Persona 4 Dancing All Night (Embroidery Practice)

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Credit to Atlus Sega, not my designs or composition, I have no idea where this exact promotional art is from but it is very relevant to the text so enjoy. To express yourself you have to believe that there is someone out there that understands you. A fervent bet on something unknown. With it being impossible to truly know how someone sees you from their perspective. You build new versions of yourself with every person you meet.  This is what I believe Persona 4 Dancing All Night represents. The following analysis and review are based on the 2015 video game published by Atlus. It is a spin-off from the main series of Persona games and specifically Persona 4 Golden.  A soundtrack review, looking at the themes behind certain individual tracks but mainly the whole album. Coming from the perspective of someone who knows nothing of music theory or instruments but has played the games and listened to these tracks extensively. A DANCING GAME!!!! Full of remixes of songs from the origi...
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