All the news that's fit to embroider

Via MyModernMet, the work of California-based multimedia artist Lauren DiCioccio, whose "Sewn News" series features hand-embroidered imagery seen in back issues of The New York Times. Above, Lady Gaga in the The Arts section. "I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft," says DiCioccio.

Each piece includes a full issue of The New York Times wrapped in cotton muslin. One selected image is then hand-embroidered on the front of the fabric, where details are not exact and layers of colorful thread mix together and hang from the cotton in messy waves.

More at MyModernMet, and here is the artist's website.

• [rattypilgrim]

  Now this is interesting. I’m all for using any image in one’s art work. An artist should be free to use any public image (as opposed to a private one) in his/her work. Newspaper photos are particularly juicy and were used by all the greats until Shepard Fairey was sued for using a photo of Pres. Obama that was originally printed in a newspaper or at least it was taken by a professional photographer. I’m just wondering if the NYT is cool with this piece and if so shouldn’t a drawing or painting from one of their photos be fair game?

• [Deidzoeb]

  “I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft.”

  I reflect the perceived grandiosity of the explication by laying a groundwork of meaning/less/ness in this ephemeral electronic commentary. Or whatever.

  Looks pretty tho.