My adventure in this new embroidery technique began as another art opening was fast approaching. I wanted to execute something effective and efficient and already had prepared a canvas covered with palimpsest collage, a layered paper process I had developed over time to create a variagated ground for eventual imagery. Along a hike up to the atelier one day I had come across a giant, industrial spool of crimson thread and gathered it thinking it might come in handy and surely it did.. I searched online for a bit of inspiration when I came up with the idea of a single, inspirational word stiched in relief directly over the artwork. The following pieces are the result, click through to learn more.