Stitching into photographs

As stitching into paper was something that I began to do from the start, I began to start looking into the idea of stitching into photographs. I wanted to stitch into the images of children's mouths. Unfortunately there are a number of restrictions when it comes to the photography of children for obvious reasons. I decided to find photographs of children's faces, and re-photograph them. I then scanned them in to the computer and cropped them all to the same square size. I first printed them out on glossy paper and stitched into their mouths using coloured thread.

I wanted the images to be unsettling, contrasting against the bright thread. However the glossy paper and the quality of the photographs didn't work and didn't capture the effect I wanted. After talking to my tutor, I rescanned them in and faded the opacity by more than 50%. I also used a nice water colour paper to print them onto. this did give a better effect.