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.
"Neil Young’s request to the record label when designing this album cover was that he wanted it to slowly degrade after it was removed from the shrink wrapping. Inevitably this didn’t happen but when embroidering this album i wanted it to look and feel really old. For this to occur I searched for really vintage, worn albums. The more tattered the better. I then stitched thousands of stitches in shades of brown and tan to age the cardboard even more. The logo was created by stitching directly through the albums with thousands of more stitches. When I finished, the album truly looks like it was embroidered almost 50 years ago, when Harvest was originally released." – Stephen Wilson
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