Silja is a Finnish textile artist who uses old and worn textiles and prints digitally manipulated images onto them before embellishing them with embroidery. The piece I am focusing on is entitled 'Siamese Twins' and features her distinct style applied to a worn rug. Although the rug is split down the centre, warp fibres keep the twins connected and symbolise their conjoined nature. Besides the textile and twin relation to my own work, I find her style very exciting. The textures and tones work well together with the use of a vintage rug and old fashioned portrait of the twins, and the way the photographs are digitially manipulated before printing helps emphasise the vintage look.
Puranen, S (2009) Siamese Twins [fabric paint, transfer photograph, soft pastel and stitch on found fabric] In: Geliot, E (2010) The Dartboard for Witches, Crafts Magazine, January/February 2010, p.54
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