According to Sasha Braulov, embroidery works like a «teleporter to childhood.» While embroidering and appliquéing the «magic of fine motor skills» is at work.
Embroidery requires focus and the ability to switch off from everyday issues and take the path of creativity, which allows us to create a space for intimate conversations or to be silent together. For the meeting at Garage the artist will continue an existing theme and embroider a large work with the word «HOME.» He spent a year creating a version for the biennial Artmossfera. The approach will be different for the group: rather than using fragments with embroidery and patchwork inserts, here pieces of cloth will be sown together like bricks to produce the word. You can use the available fabric or bring your own. It can be any color, pattern, density or texture. Everyone has their own idea of home. It could be a garment that means something to a person, as part of their memory, or a recently bought piece of new material without any personal history. This kind of practical collectivity helps to realize a research interest in society and gives the artist hope: «So, we all gathered and are building a home. Together. Like a single organism in which the unification of every cell occurs so that everything works. Even antagonists work together.»
