Recent Comments
    Categories
    My name is Alex Novo, I’m a photographer.

    The world without photography will be meaningless to us if there is no light and color, which opens up our minds and expresses passion.

    Contacts
    Phone: +1 (800) 456 37 11
    Email: support@licc.uk
    Contacts
    Phone: +1 (800) 456 37 11
    Email: support@licc.uk
    Copyright © 2017 Promo-themes. All Rights Reserved.
    © LICC, 2024. All Rights Reserved.

    Spin Club Tapestry

    PrizeOfficial Selection in Shoot (photo/video)
    ArtistAstrid Reischwitz
    CategoryNon-Professional
    Credit© Astrid Reischwitz
    Video URLView

    Spin Club Tapestry explores cultural memory by embroidering photographs, inspired by the tradition of spin clubs in Northern Germany. Long ago, village women met regularly in "Spinneklumps" (Spin Clubs) to spin wool, embroider, and stitch fabrics for their homes. I imagine their conversations as they worked, the beautiful stories that lifted their spirits, as well as the stories of sadness, sorrow and loss. I connect the present and the past by re-creating and re-imagining pieces of the embroidery. The patterns I have stitched myself into the paper represent fragments of memory.

    Bio
    Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. Her current focus is the exploration of personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany.