Portrait Series — a series of cross-stitched portraits of people around me (on-going project)
(Each portrait is about 7cm wide 9.4cm long, 28 colours, worked on Aida cloth. )
Inspired by the German photographer Thomas Ruff’s portraits
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, I wanted to document people around me. Instead of taking photographs of them, I started cross-stitching their ID photos. Each coloured cross-stitch becomes pixel, 28 coloured DMC threads became a pixelated portrait. Pixel, a digital concept is replaced by cross-stitch, the oldest form of embroidery.
*You can order your portrait embroidery, You'll get the finished portrait and process scan images. (email to iinokchung@gmail.com)
To see the process, hover on the names below. (works on web view only)
000. Sample
001. Philipp Obwaller
002. Eden Brader Tan
003. Hyunwoo Kim
004. Maxmilien Foucaut