Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts of PAINTED presented a new concept for AIS SALON/ in Aruba: the painted table dress.
In the spirit of Painted, where designs evolve with more than one pair of hands, they designed a dress annex tablecloth in order of a special social workshop. 16 people - varying from social workers, creative artists, local entrepreneurs and myself - get together to embroider on this table dress with a nice top at the end.
Their assignment to us was: embrace what you get, like it is a gift, and bring it a level further. In other words: your creations will be the starting point for someone else. Like a canon. And that's not easy, to let go your first embroidery you have worked on full of ideas and expectations about the result!
During the workshop Saskia and Margreet explained a few basic embroidery techniques and created a visual dialogue with the colorful yarn between the mixture of people. All participants of the workshop made a fish, water waves, a fantasy bird and treads that leaded to the top of the cloth.
The end result is showed last Friday by a local performer, Alydia Wever, who will dance a custom made choreography dressed in our co-created table dress. Read more about this performance on this blog or click here.
http://www.paintedseries.com/
Supported by Scol di Arte and Unesco.
In the spirit of Painted, where designs evolve with more than one pair of hands, they designed a dress annex tablecloth in order of a special social workshop. 16 people - varying from social workers, creative artists, local entrepreneurs and myself - get together to embroider on this table dress with a nice top at the end.
Their assignment to us was: embrace what you get, like it is a gift, and bring it a level further. In other words: your creations will be the starting point for someone else. Like a canon. And that's not easy, to let go your first embroidery you have worked on full of ideas and expectations about the result!
During the workshop Saskia and Margreet explained a few basic embroidery techniques and created a visual dialogue with the colorful yarn between the mixture of people. All participants of the workshop made a fish, water waves, a fantasy bird and treads that leaded to the top of the cloth.
The end result is showed last Friday by a local performer, Alydia Wever, who will dance a custom made choreography dressed in our co-created table dress. Read more about this performance on this blog or click here.
http://www.paintedseries.com/
Supported by Scol di Arte and Unesco.
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| Choose the yarn |
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| Fantasy Fish |
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| Bird and Fish |
posted by Marij Elisabeth Rynja official blogger for SALON/
