Inge Jacobsen takes the from covers of Vogue and hand embroiders over the image completely covering the glossy cover with the texture of cross stitch. This process alters the meaning of the image from a glossy massed produced high fashion magazine cover to something that has been laboured over (50 hours of labour to be exact).Jacobsen states in her artist statement that she wants the viewer to recognise the obsessiveness and the amount of work that goes in to embroidering the magazine covers, anyone who knows the process of hand embroidery will be able to appreciate this. The surface of the mass produced high fashion magazine has been subverted and becomes a one off object, a work of endurance, a work of art. As Jacobsen discusses in her statement the embroidered magazines can only become part of the mass produced media through being blogged and reblogged on sites like mine, but the original embroidery is different to the scanned images that flood the web.
Jacobsen magazine covers are not only changing the glossy surface of high fashion but the work also questions the way fashion is accused of objectifying imagery of women, by turning the image into an actual object. Embroidery is considered a feminine craft or ‘hobby’ Jacobsen compares the modern day pastime of browsing through a magazine to the more traditional pastime of embroidery.
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