It has been a while since I worked on this project, the Sporozoan Swarm is running me ragged. Before I began The Swarm I was working on a project in which I asked people to send me an item of clothing and I would modify it with The Sporozoan. I started out just screen printing the image on t-shirts and the like but then I started getting excited about sewing and began embroidering articles of clothing.

Katrina was very daring in sending me a dress and telling to me to go for it. I cut into it and added bits and pieces and did a lot of hand as well as machine embroidery to the dress. Now that I have finally seen the dress on her I am excited to breath some life back into this project. We shall see what the next few days bring in the life of The Sporozoan Embroidery project.

The Swarm is calling you. All you need to do is leave a comment and you get one. I will be picking someone at random but not until I have 5 comments. This weeks give away is for a Minuscule Sporozoan Swarm. Once I have 5 comments I will notify the new Keeper, via email and then get their Swarm in the mail. Check out the map to see The Swarms proliferation so far.

Check back next week I will have a new give away then.

Art changed my world.

Art can change our world.

This is my second custom embroidery. Katrina sent me this dress quite some time ago. I am not sure why it took so long. Maybe it was the 27 feet of snow that has fallen on this winter, or the renovation I am doing on the house, or the whatever. Those are all excuses. Art should always come first. I think it always does in my head but things like my basement flooding like it is right now get in the way. I guess you just have to say screw it I am making art instead of trying to build a dike.

The dress is hand and machine embroidered with a pink satin taffeta sewn into the back. I pinned the taffeta onto the inside of the dress and then cut pieces of the dress away as I finished embroidering in areas. For a long time while I was making it I didn’t like it but I guess that just reinforces that I should always trust my passion. The end result is really hot and more interesting than my shirt.

The sporozoan on my shirt is really big and I think that gives it more impact but Katrina’s dress is subtle and far more suggestive.

Whether it’s my mark or yours.

As long as it’s individual or is sui generis

Mass market is boring and predictable.

Corporate deadens the senses.

katrina_dress, originally uploaded by printtroll.

Katrina’s dress will be a challenge, not only is the sporozoan going to wrap around the form it is also going to be about four times the size of anything I have embroidered so far.

Like the parasite it is, spreading 3000 miles to the unsuspecting. Matthew you think you can guilt me into doing work? Well it sort of worked I was embroidering the day you made the comment.