Piece description from the artist
Things change over time – the day turns to night, seasons pass, years build to decades and churn forward. The city is a shifting monument to the people who settle and nurture a culture there. They turn wild landscape into fields, then construct roads and infrastructure to move the fruits of their labor. As time passes on, modern needs and aesthetics find a place among what already existed. The changes to a city’s skyline tell the stories of the people who built it.
This artwork was made with 102 colors of embroidery floss.
Individual pieces were glued to the background surface one by one and pushed into place with tiny scissors and an X-acto knife.
Amanda Pearson is a mixed media artist who lives in the Twin Cities, MN (but grew up in Portland, OR). In college, she majored in Art Education and after graduating found a niche in elevating the mundane materials that are often forgotten in the back of the craft drawer. Her focus is currently on pieces created by gluing embroidery floss, but she also uses other media such as dots (made out of colored pencils or paint), glued hole punches from cardstock paper, and has even made a mosaic from recycled used gift cards. Her work requires time, and it takes a lot of it – each piece takes months to create. These pieces aim to capture a moment of time in spaces that could be considered sacred. Nature is used to represent these significant moments.
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