I came across this project by Whitney Lee a couple of years ago, and now I have an outlet to show how cool it is. Whitney makes latch hook rugs using soft porn images. She sells kits and she has some massive pieces that are art pieces. Her website, Made With Sweet Love will show you lots of her work – but it looks like it has been updated for awhile so I’m not sure if everything is still available.
Behind the cut is a photo of one of the rugs – it’s mildly nsfw.
And a brief portion of her artist statement about the rest of this series:
By starting with pornography (imagery made by and for men) and converting it to latch-hook (a technique associated with women), gendered seeing gets turned upside-down.
Neat.
