LAB 01: FROM CROSS-STITCH TO PIXEL

In this session the Women from the ASM-Associação Ser Mulher Shelter House worked on the issue of gender violence by drawing inspiration from artists such as Susan Kare (USA, 1954) and Barbara Kruger (USA, 1945). We aimed to establish a relationship between the cross-stitch, a popular form of embroidery always associated with the feminine, and the pixel.

As Susan Kare, the pioneering pixel art designer who created many of the icons for the Apple Macintosh computer interface between 1983 and 1986, says: "Bitmap graphics are like mosaics and cross stitch and other pseudo-digital art forms" (Kare apud Pang, 2001), and "I used to say that if you like cross-stitch, you'll love bitmap design!' because it's really analog (Kare apud Campbell, 2018). Artist Barbara Kruger is an example for creating simple and effective sentences in her message against gender violence.

DOWNLOADABLE PHRASES FOR CROSS-STITCHING

  1. No Amor só coração é que bate (In love only the heart beats)
  2. À frente de um homem está uma grande mulher (In front of a man is a great woman)
  3. Uma mulher precisa de um homem como de uma dor de dentes (A woman needs a man like a toothache)
  4. Quem ama não maltrata (Those who love do not abuse)
  5. Deus no céu e as mulheres na terra (God in heaven and women on earth)
  6. O homem que diz que o lugar da mulher é na cozinha, é porque não sabe o que fazer com ela na cama (The man who says that a woman's place is in the kitchen is because he doesn't know what to do with her in bed)
  7. A mulher precisa de um homem como um gato precisa de uma piscina (A woman needs a man like a cat needs a pool)
  8. A mulher precisa de um homem como uma pessoa precisa de fome (A woman needs a man like a person needs to go hungry)