Project Layout
Embroidered underwear was inspired by Babette Shaws "Ritual Castings"
General layout of presentation along with a rough outline of my visual plan for the wall hanging
video on the actual process of punch needling
examples of finished pieces, my own as well as found work
Examples of word embriodery
Demo of Process
Statistics to be Included
58% of women report feeling embarrassed about being on their period
Each statistic is a link to the credited source, these are the statistics I plan to embroider on the underwear in my final exhibit
51% of men believe its inappropriate for mentruation to be talked about in the workplace
POC are 3x as likely to die during pregancy
65% of the AFAB community report being cat-called on a monthly basis
The average time its takes to diagnose endometriosis is 8 years
Between the 18th-19th century, one of the most common diagnosis for women was female hysteria
Inspiration pictures from Instagram by artist Karime Gonzalez who is a fiber artists based out of Colorado
Catherine Evans and her work