Framed size 12"W x 12"H x2"D acrylic box
Stephen Wilson expertly crafts extraordinary and timeless designs using sustainable materials. Each art piece embarks on a journey, starting with an up-cycled luxury bag, box, silk scarf, or album. Wilson meticulously creates a bespoke embroidery design, delicately intertwining every stitch by hand.
The album series begins with a vintage album sleeve, which serves as the foundation for intricate designs created with a variety of techniques such as yarn embroidery and photorealistic embroidery. Each album is carefully embroidered with over 200,000 stitches, taking more than 8 hours to complete. Upon completion, the album is adorned with embroidered patches and other decorative objects, making each one truly unique.
"Are You Experienced was Jimi Hendrix’s debut album that was released in 1967. The album was an instant commercial and critical success and over the years has sold over 5,000,000 copies. As a guitar player growing up, Jimi Hendrix was a huge inspiration and I probably wore out multiple copies of this album trying to learn every song. Since the album cover was created in a psychedelic style with fish eye lens photography and bubble letters I decided to do something psychedelic. I created the album art using four color process threads. Essentially the entire album was stitched in cyan, magenta, yellow and black with the lettering created separately, hand trimmed and mounted later. The different thread colors mold and intertwine together to create a psychedelic overlay." – Stephen Wilson
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