Marceli Klimek

Forming a heart with your hands tends to produce a diamond-like shape in the middle stages of the action, just after intention and before completion. Embroidery is likewise an art focused on the process, and certain parallels like the transience and unimportance of the process can be applied to this gesture. Embroidery and various other types of media, like cinema, music, usually don’t disclose their working process to the consumer. Not that they’re not important, sometimes it’s to protect specific techniques or ideas from competitors. When designing motifs for my graduate piece, I wanted to effectively distil themes relating to relationships, familial, romantic, and friendly into shapes that could permeate my piece without being noticed outright. Hidden in the final result, whilst being evident in the process. To achieve this, I mimicked the way smear frames capture the feeling of motion in between key frames in movies with multiple distorted brush strokes, glitched effects.