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amy friend - pin pricked photos Oh my! Fairy dust, fireflies, and maybe just a little bit of magic. There is something almost celestial about this lovely found image series, titled Daré alla Lucé by Canadian artist/photographer Amy Friend.

Design Inspiration // Maria Aparicio… and friends. All of these pieces are collaborations with various photographers. They supply the stunning images, and she supplies the embroidery.

The Jealous Curator /// curated contemporary art /// jose romussi

The Jealous Curator & F;& curated contemporary art & i’m jealous of shae acopian detar

♒ Enchanting Embroidery ♒ Artist Hinke Schreuders Alters Advertising and Fashion Photography with Hand-Stitched Embroidery

University of Stuttgart unveils carbon-fibre pavilion based on beetle shells. - use of lime, reminds me of maurizio Anzeri's work

'maurizio anzeri: makeup art or embroidered portraits' - evelyne politanoff, 2012 [huffington post article + series of maurizio anzeri images]

Antique photographs gain a new kind of lively texture in this series, entitled Dare alla Luce. Canadian photographer Amy Friend collects the prints from a

Italian born, London based artist Maurizio Anzeri transforms found photographs of perfectly cute kids into spooky, tribal, baboon-ish looking creatures using only a needle and thread. This is where I got some of my inspiration for sewing on canvas

Illustrator Olaf Hajek has created a series called Black Antoinette, and it imagines Marie Antoinette—the infamous Queen of France—as a woman of color.