Namibian Girl

Recreating a face in an embroidery.

A world traveller, journalist and photographer Zvone Šeruga feels about Namibia like his lover and he has been visiting the country for 25 years. On one of his trips there, he made a beautiful photo of a local girl personalising true Africa that is at the same time open and welcoming, and still an enigma to a visitor.

We have created the same motif in the embroidery, primarily as one of many studies on how far can we take embroidery in terms of presenting a human face.

Deep zoom of the artwork

www.ercigojart.com/gallery/namibian-girl/

Artwork info

Motif: by Zvone Šeruga
Type: Photo embroidery
Technique: Ercigoj stitch
Year: 2013
Edition: Limited

Dimension: 57 x 91 cm | 22.4 x 35.8 in
Number of stitches: over 1 mio
Thread length: over 12 km | over 7.5 mi
Development: over 400 person hours

You can get more info on our online gallery.

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