A 3-Term Mayor as Brash, Shrewd and Colorful as the City He Led

This is the tenth phase for this hand-stitched embroidery. One of the most dynamic things about this type of art is how light factors in. Changing immediately from a flat portrait to a 3-dimensional portrait. Here is a detail of that reflective light.

The master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as New York’s mayor with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams. I embroidered Ed Koch’s obituary because he personified New York for so long he deserved to be celebrated on the front page of the New York Times.

A 3-Term Mayor as Brash, Shrewd and Colorful as the City He Led

This is the tenth phase for this hand-stitched embroidery. One of the most dynamic things about this type of art is how light factors in. Changing immediately from a flat portrait to a 3-dimensional portrait. Here is a detail of that reflective light.

The master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as New York’s mayor with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams. I embroidered Ed Koch’s obituary because he personified New York for so long he deserved to be celebrated on the front page of the New York Times.

A 3-Term Mayor as Brash, Shrewd and Colorful as the City He Led

The master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as New York’s mayor with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams. I embroidered Ed Koch’s obituary because he personified New York for so long he deserved to be celebrated on the front page of the New York Times.

This is the seventh phase for this hand-stitched embroidery.

A 3-Term Mayor as Brash, Shrewd and Colorful as the City He Led

The master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as New York’s mayor with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams. I embroidered Ed Koch’s obituary because he personified New York for so long he deserved to be celebrated on the front page of the New York Times.

This is the fourth phase for this hand-stitched embroidery.

A 3-Term Mayor as Brash, Shrewd and Colorful as the City He Led

The master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as New York’s mayor with all the tenacity, zest and comabativeness that personified his city of golden dreams. I embroidered Ed Koch’s obituary because he personified New York for so long he deserved to be celebrated on the front page of the New York Times.

This is the second phase for this hand-stitched embroidery.

I call this battle of the headlines.

I’m interested in how headlines can silence us. They often lack any kind of emotion of actual information. I found when trying to read them simultaneously with the computer that it was a real struggle. Yet when the computer finished, I could not hear myself any better.

I am going to continue playing with sound tomorrow….I have an idea that I hope will translate a bit better.

The included headlines were pulled from online at 10pm PST, a screenshot for you:

1/2/2012 screenshot

AnjaliThakur_31Dec2011_TemporaryFeeling

Temporary feeling: This site specific installation uses the stand of various parties toward much awaited ‘Strong Lokpal Bill’, to bring forth the fractured state of democratic system, and the government’s rush to suppress the bill by means of two days spent on debates, hurried votes, allegations in both the houses of parliament. The two day show only exhibited lack of commitment and forged compassion toward people of our nation.