When I was Fifteen I Liked Bubble Letters (detail)

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Artist: Ayelet Lindenstrauss Larsen

Title: When I was Fifteen I Liked Bubble Letters (detail)

Attribution: When I was Fifteen I Liked Bubble Letters, 2015, Ayelet Lindenstrauss Larsen

Year: 2015

Materials: silk thread, linen fabric, purchased small bench, wood; fabric paint, resist, fabric marker, paint, stain and powdered “stone” compound

Dimensions: 7.5” h 17” w 2.5” d

Image Statement: This is not a schoolgirl sampler. When I was fifteen, I had already been embroidering for some years, but I was less interested in historical textiles than in bubble letters. (They were very popular at the time.) I’ve continued embroidering, but at some point I was no longer a schoolgirl and anyhow I never made my version of a schoolgirl sampler: an official, embroidered statement to put on the wall. So I imagine, sometimes in odd circumstances like when I look at a blank wall, what my sampler would have been had I made one. I certainly have many motifs I would like to put into one if I made it, some which I would have chosen then, some which have acquired importance in the intervening years.