Sewing your art

« Sewing your art », if you « google » this generic term in a very specific..worldwide search engine, you will find a large number of DIY (do it yourself) sites and as many tutorials to guide you on how to sew, felt characters and objects.

The young English artist has taken the art world by surprise by placing some collectors in a particular state of addiction since 2010. This success occurred to her after many years of hardship, which she refers to on her website or in interviews, she was among other things a cabaret dancer, there are worst shifts… but few are that Chic.

Lucy Sparrow invites you to « sew your soul ».

The funny thing is, note if you don’t pronounce English enough, like many French people, the sentence can also remind you of the term : sue your…, which is translated as a term to sue another party, here, it would be your own soul, in a strange metaphor of addiction…

Because Lucy Sparrow comments are  » objectifying  » it, all of the degree of our numerous and diverse dependences by exhibiting the motives, in these representations of objects made of felts, these are working as much as an attaching and as a distancing (it is the it moment for the word) of the market of the firearms, of the fetishistic and pornographic material, of the seductive and compulsive consumption, in summary our consumer junk.

Lucy invites us to sew our souls and her latest creations are a crazy flock of characters who are as many consumer products are produced in a real debauchery of forms, colors and formats and all these objects enter by this parodic way the benign status of comic representations.

Their forms recall the delirious and much beloved characters of the Muppets, also in felt, from the prolific and joyfully funny universe of Jim Henson, genius creator of the Muppet Show, and creator of the first homo couple for children: Ernest and Bart, stars of Sesame Street.

All these characters which are either food products: tomatoes, eggplants, vacuum-packed minced steaks, clams, oysters, shrimps, mussels, or other tempting merchandise: pastries, boxes of cakes, pots of Ben & Jerry ice cream or like these little felt cabbages which are artistically assembled all sporting a pair of treacherous little black insect eyes, which suddenly suck your very soul in with their benign, tender shapes. The soup cans, or cereal packets also kidnap your heart in a big « Kawai » rush.

The Kawai culture (Japanese war love cry of delirium adoration) is the other form of crazy and consensual addiction to  »cute!!! » – Yes, it takes at least two exclamation points to grasp the intensity contained in this spontaneous declaration of aesthetic and unconditional love – for objects or shapes that some other people may find ridiculous, childish, or even, for some aestheticists, vulgar.

Rise and Felt

This system of elevating a common commercial design, transformed into sublimated art on objects that have become inescapable and desirable, because they are pink or sequined or like this odd cucumber wearing a charlotte on blond curls, is set up as a system of life by hordes of lonely young Japanese girls or women, perhaps in lack of other excitements and of other physical forms of passion, the transitional object arised as an element of elevation.

The artist Lucy Sparrow, whose name sounds like a cartoon character, you can easily picture her dressed in bright colors, wearing a mask and a spandex cape, like a sewing machine superheroine, Lucy cultivates the nostalgia of shopping climax- By this practice of a reproductive madness dedicated to the overestimated aesthetics of consumption – her cuddly felt objects – for an English contemporary artist – this multitude, this overproduction underlines her criticism of overconsumption.

DOUDOU Power !

She also opens our perception of these objects to a second utility, where the remanence of our tacit acceptance to the dependence and the indoctrination to the brands, to the qualities lent to such or such product which our everyday lives are involved. The personification of the products of consumption, which leads to our juvenile attachment, it is this part of our available brain that the artist instrumentalizes. The irresistible power of the original « doudou », the transitional object to the attachment of which we get all our tenderness, this touch of caress, this way of grabbing an object, of massaging it, of kneading it, of bringing it to our mouth, then of sticking it under our nose, then of passing it in our hair, this first erotic ecstasy, childish enjoyment by the means of an object. By this resurgence, the artist animates a new practice of a contemporary art, by a setting into abime of the consumption out of frame and put together in scenes of fake commercial spaces.

Trans Love affection

Transitional object is the puppet doudou, disgusting, destroyed, slobbering, washed, faded, objects that used Mr. Rogers, with faith and without irony, to make pass these emotional messages : the object speaks for me of my feelings.

Tom Hanks plays with a destabilizing suavity this extraordinary person, Mr. Rogers, who accompanied the mornings of lonely American children in front of their TV sets during the 60’s and 70’s. The film tries to uncover the reality of the character.

The story of this star of the national broadcast in the USA for children is used as a pattern, pattern or model we are in the sewing, to the sublime series where Michel Gondry has devilish fun playing Jim Carrey who has fun playing puppets, the life of the puppet characters becomes in the second season of this exciting and tragic series a perverted object of dispute in a tasty divorce …

Jim Carrey whose character recalls the unlikely figure of the real Mr. Rogers, in a delicious and sharp series by Michel Gondry « Kidding ».

FELT LOVE & PLEASURE

The opening of a goody shop in New York at the Rckfeller center- last winter 2109, between 5th avenue and Broadway, where the artist invited her 76,9K followers on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sewyoursoul/ ) to come and visit his/her ephemeral Pop store souvenir gallery.

Perhaps a large majority of the enchanted visitors were strangers to the process of the artist’s commentary, or simply unable to understand anything about it, mistaking the place for a crunchy shop of must-have souvenirs – the brilliant Lucy didn’t complain, because these consumer products with powers multiplied by her obstinate manipulations were snapped up like hotcakes.

Scabrous maneuvering

From now on, all they need is a voice. Like in the terribly inappropriate cartoon « Sausage Party », which portray the secret private life of food (the great beyond) by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan) released in 2016 which had held at the time its role as a banner of scandal..