Saturday 8 December 2012

Amy Davis

Whilst scarification is often a means to change and modify the skin, to make it decorative, to personalise it, other cultures believe that skin should be left as nature intended and that modification such as this is visually unappealing due to the incisional marks which leave skin incredibly indented and perforated.
Although scarification can be a debatable subject as to whether people should cover their bodies in it or not, I however have used images of scarification to my advantage as these have influenced a collection of hand stitched and screen printed samples which basically imitates scarification through an embroiderers perspective, turning what is usually perceived to be ugly and unattractive into something which is incredibly pleasing to the eye.

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