Instagram? She Embroiders Her Vacation Snapshots Instead
How do you preserve your vacation memories?Instagram or Flickr on your phone? Maybe a big, pro-quality SLR camera or an actual film camera (with actual film)?
Whatever your technique, Teresa Lim has you beat. She embroiders her trips in a series she calls Sew Wanderlust.
Lim, 24, has captured scenes from Hanoi to London, working up famous landmarks and simple farm scenes alike.
“I started the project late 2014 after I realized that with today’s state of the art technology, taking pictures becomes so easy,” she says on her website.
“I wanted something more from my travels, to be able to take back a part of that place with me. When I’m done with a piece, I actually feel like I KNOW that place, and that gives me a huge sense of satisfaction that I think just taking a photo wouldn’t give.”
She is no slouch with an embroidery needle. Big Ben is instantly recognizable in one creation, and travelers to Prague will spot the Charles Bridge in another.
Her rendering of some sheep in a field in Laufersweiler, Germany, will be harder to place.
There are whimsical images (like those sheep) and also heartbreakingly serious ones. Lim created a embroidery of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, with the transfixing grey rectangular shapes clearly recreated in thread.
Lim studied fashion design and textiles at Lasalle College of the Arts, and works on exhibitions and fashion shows in Asia. She notes that she aspires to “blur the lines and boundaries between being an illustrator and a textile designer,” which is exactly what her embroidery achieves.
She’s also got some cool crafty projects on her blog, such as this photo memory board.
(H/T to Designtaxi.com for highlighting Lim’s work.)
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