{"id":30441,"date":"2018-01-04T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=30441"},"modified":"2017-12-29T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T16:39:26","slug":"ulla-stina-wikander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/ulla-stina-wikander\/","title":{"rendered":"ulla-stina wikander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30444\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30444\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ullastinawikander.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4919\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discarded household items covered lovingly in discarded cross-stitch embroideries. LOVE. This is the work of Swedish artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ullastinawikander.com\/\">Ulla-Stina Wikander,<\/a> and this is her story behind this body of work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201dFor more then 10 years I have collected cross-stitch embroideries and today I have quite a big collection with over 100 different designs. These embroideries have mostly been made by women and is seen as kitsch and regarded pretty worthless. I think that sometimes they are really beautiful and I want to bring them back to life. In 2012 I started to cover ordinary household things from the 70s, like a sewing machine, vaccuum cleaner, electric mixer etc. I find it interesting to see how these objects transforms in a new context; the obsolete, the things we do not want any longer, the old and forgotten things. I give them a second life and although I cut the embroideries into pieces, I still think they look very beautiful, when the objects has been \u201ddressed up\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perfect.<\/p>\n<p><em>{found via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/create_mag\/\">Create Magazine&#8217;s Instagram feed<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discarded household items covered lovingly in discarded cross-stitch embroideries. LOVE. This is the work of Swedish artist Ulla-Stina Wikander, and this is her story behind this body of work: \u201dFor more then 10 years I have collected cross-stitch embroideries and today I have quite a big collection with over 100 different designs. These embroideries have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,58,12,493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30445,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions\/30445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}