#Adele/dimensional embroidery

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DUALITY/Group Show @ Y Gallery | Woodbrook Trinidad & Tobago

Adele Todd . 

Quilted blanket and dimensional embroidery thread. 

81 x 65”2021

As a Performance Artist who works with Embroidery and Soft Materials among other Media, the possibilities for DUALITY seemed endless. 

However, eventually I was moved to consider "Male Toxicity" as my theme.

The word Panty Man that is done tongue-in-cheek in neon pink is the Title that sets the viewer on their path of discovery.

The slang term is used to describe a man who is coddled and feminine in nature and a slur to homosexual men in particular.

The work is a large dark blue quilt with embroidery threads that on closer observation create individual words that must be looked at at close range and also, can only be seen one at a time as they do not have a chronology. 

The viewer must move their own bodies to 'read' the piece.The quilt is a symbol of nurturing, safety and warmth. 

The loose threads that thus fall from the quilt symbolises the unravelling of that safety. 

We generally expect men to be 'men' and are unaware of how much our stereotyping of the male sex confuses boys as they grow to manhood. 

I hope that my piece shall inspire those who interact with it, the opportunity, to consider when they themselves have perhaps used terminology seen on the quilt or words to that nature to define a man's character. 

We are all guilty of a level of sexual politics for its own gain and must now consider that sensitivity is not a one way street.

-Adele Todd

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Panty Man - Adele Todd 

Quilted blanket and dimensional embroidery thread . 81 x 65” 2021

As a Performance Artist who works with Embroidery and Soft Materials among other Media, the possibilities for DUALITY seemed endless. However, eventually I was moved to consider "Male Toxicity" as my theme.The word Panty Man that is done tongue-in-cheek in neon pink is the Title that sets the viewer on their path of discovery.The slang term is used to describe a man who is coddled and feminine in nature and a slur to homosexual men in particular.The work is a large dark blue quilt with embroidery threads that on closer observation create individual words that must be looked at at close range and also, can only be seen one at a time as they do not have a chronology. The viewer must move their own bodies to 'read' the piece.The quilt is a symbol of nurturing, safety and warmth. The loose threads that thus fall from the quilt symbolises the unravelling of that safety. We generally expect men to be 'men' and are unaware of how much our stereotyping of the male sex confuses boys as they grow to manhood. I hope that my piece shall inspire those who interact with it, the opportunity, to consider when they themselves have perhaps used terminology seen on the quilt or words to that nature to define a man's character. We are all guilty of a level of sexual politics for its own gain and must now consider that sensitivity is not a one way street.-Adele Todd

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Pixel Art History

Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of software, where images are edited on the pixel level. The aesthetic for this kind of graphics comes from 8-bit and 16-bit computers and video game consoles, in addition to other limited systems such as graphing calculators. In most pixel art, the color palette used is extremely limited in size, with some pixel art using only two colors.

Creating or modifying pixel art characters or objects for video games is sometimes called spriting, a term that arose from the hobbyist community. The term likely came from the term sprite, a term used in computer graphics to describe a two-dimensional bitmap that is used in tandem with other bitmaps to construct a larger scene.

Some of the earliest counterparts of modern pixel art could be found in the electronic advertising displays of New York City during the early 20th century, with simple monochromatic light bulb matrix displays extant circa 1937. Pixel art as it is known today largely originates from classic video games, particularly classic arcade games such as Space Invaders (1978) and Pac-Man (1980), and 8-bit consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (1983) and Sega Master System (1985).

The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982. The concept, however, goes back about 11 years before that, for example in Richard Shoup's SuperPaint system in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.

Some traditional art forms, such as counted-thread embroidery (including cross-stitch) and some kinds of mosaic and beadwork, are very similar to pixel art. These art forms construct pictures out of small colored units similar to the pixels of modern digital computing. A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the North Korean Arirang Festival.

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Violence BLOOMS (2002-9)

I used red embroidery to depict delicate Anthuriums.

Violence Blooms - is a statement about crime as it looks against our Caribbean life. We all struggle with the reality of violence in our once idyllic spaces, where criminals creep between the blooms.

The Anthuriums join together and form a blood spot that fans out into lines that then can be hung up from any direction. The organic shape also looks like a dart board and acts like one in the space.

The dimensional embroidery (dhow dhow, pax pax) is the sound that gunfire makes and the language that we in Trinidad and Tobago use to express that sound. The lettering was experimental for this piece and I did not include it when the work went to China. I did not want the wording to get lost in translation, and the embroidery could stand on its own. 

The photograph was taken in my garden for the Beijing Biennale.

#Adele/Violence Blooms #Adele/Dimensional Embroidery #Adele/Beijing Biennale #Adele/cutwork embroidery #cutwork embroidery #embroidery #fibre #dimensional embroidery

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Adele/CCA:Glasgow - Adele Todd (Tony Cruz and Remi Jungerman) another look at casting shadows using slurs against women.

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Last Year Richard “Ashraph’ Ramsaran invited myself, Peter Doig, Jackie Hinkson, Paul Kain, Sabrina Charran, Che Lovelace, Parker Nicholas and David Subran to give our versions of The Mighty Sparrow’s spectacular legacy.

I chose to whimsically portray his songs in what I coin my ‘dimensional embroidery’ miles of wrapped embroidery thread around shaped wire and wadding. I choose the songs, Congo Man, Marajin and Mr.Benwood Dick.

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~ADELE~ Three images taking a closer look at PANTYMAN | Duality Group Show/Y Gallery. Woodbrook Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 

DUALITY - Virtual Opening:April 26th 2021 - (to be announced)

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~Adele~ A closer look at PANTY MAN | Duality/Group Show @ Y Gallery Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain. Trinidad and Tobago.

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