Sandrine pelletier biography of barack

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Eleanor Roosevelt Punked Up, pencil and dry-transfer collage for 33 Thoughts magazine (U.K.), 2007.

Sandrine pelletier biography of barack

Art director: James Grubb.

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lives in Paris, France

website Maskara.ch

Sandrine Pelletier’s sewn portraits and surreal tableaux are expertly crafted and surprisingly kinetic, but don’t expect tidy, traditional needlecraft: Her crewel is not meant to be kind.

Instead, you’re more likely to see the canvases’ backsides, where the vacant eyes and mouths of her zombie children and backyard fighters “bleed” profusely by way of unruly red cotton strands. The internationally exhibited Lausanne native says she is more interested in showing evidence of the “almost violent” way she attacks her canvas with the needle, to better show raw emotion and the truth of her subject matter.

Inspired by the Surrealists, Aubrey Beardsley, gothic art, and artifacts from her childhood such as Jim Henson’s Muppets (indeed, puppet-making was her first love after graduating from