Petra Hultman

Embrodiery and conversation

In this work I made myself available for conversations with the visitors by daily working on a large-scale cross stitch embroidery on perforated steel in close proximity to my grandparents’ craft work. The conversation with the visitors was varied even though they tended to relate to mothers, productive vs reproductive labor, life choices, textile heritages, time, women’s roles and a changing society. The motifs on the three panels consist of illustrations from the Swedish Housewife lexicon, a cross stitch designed for monograming sheets and a couple of pots and hands in work. # time <-> work <-> value, interaction, conversation, craft <-> art, housewife dictionaryor