Black Metal embroideries
2021-3
2021-3
![Valley of Torment, 2021, The Epitome Of Misanthropy, 2022, and Veinin, 2022. All works 420 x 290mm, cotton evenweave, embroidery thread and embroidered patch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a525bbd60d0ffce3c29b500818a678fe84ce05e43f0cf5bedc7b8cdf00a4e8f9/tiles1.jpg)
![Apparitions (detail), 2023, Danish linen, embroidery thread and embroidered patch, 420 x 290mm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3e22eb6db5396e5fb7ec1670df39d258c079690e5dab2665945a4a3f1acaae2/ashborer_deet-copy.jpg)
![Silence threads the evening's cloth, 2023, Danish linen, embroidery thread and embroidered patch, 420 x 290mm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94f44f14ef759595dc7c2d15afb3b5cd805588ad07358b1a8aa704407a7ce0d1/yelloweyes-copy.jpg)
![Veinin, 2022, Cotton evenweave, embroidery thread and embroidered patch, 420 x 290mm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/533469d42157ae27e0b6fd7905c4f804ba6d6110ecc66ba31d2dee7a3633f76a/Von-Fixed.jpg)
![Apparitions, 2023, Danish linen, embroidery thread and embroidered patch, 420 x 290mm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36b23167bbb9b92a21b4cb0b98bca737fc54bca76c0bd0a8cba1ea8c8cc12472/ashborer-copy.jpg)
![The Epitome Of Misanthropy (detail), 2022, Cotton evenweave, embroidery thread and embroidered patch, 420 x 290mm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f577513feb9a60bbd895289a080dea03e2b6fa0bc95905797fb5305478e3c5f/friedeyes1.jpg)
This ongoing series of textile works reflect on music subculture through craft traditions. Extreme music is seen as a wild and unhinged expression of resistance, however it is often deeply embedded within a musical sub-genre with well-established social and creative boundaries. On one hand these time consuming pulled-thread embroidery works are a fans dedication to music, and on the other they raise questions concerning a genre that revels in its strictures.