The embroidery is stitched with blue threads extracted from a checkered pattern fabric. Without being cut from the original fabric, the extracted blue threads are transformed into an embroidery. Thus, there are no blue threads left in the lattice inside the outline of the embroidery. This work is inspired by Ghent Altarpiece (or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in the 15th century. The folds of clothing in the painting are the point of reference stitched in this piece.
grid – eyck
2008
Embroidery with threads extracted from readymade fabric
80 × 65 cm
Exhibited at
2008 MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2024 Opening and Connecting – A Study of Incision and Suture, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Masaru Yanagiba