Marceli Klimek

  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...

  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...