Wet Nuns “Why You So Cold?” music video launches! (I made that!)

The music video for the new Wet Nuns single “Why You So Cold?” is being released this week as an NME exclusive video – I’m very excited as this is the project I have been working on for over a year!

The video is a stop frame animation, capturing the process of developing an embroidered image a few stitches at a time. I use a traditional embroidery technique known as Blackwork – where black threads are worked onto white cloth to create geometric patterns to fill design areas.

In this post I’ve included photos of the final embroideries – some of which are for sale (please contact me via email for details).

 I also have a limited number of jewellery items that contain pieces of embroidery used in the video – please visit http://folksy.com/shops/Tonibuckby   (there you can also order yourself a nice twee embroidered profanity)

PS. A note for the art school people…

I’m always delighted when a project fits so nicely with my thinking – my art practice is surprisingly theoretical for the process driven, craft based work I enjoy producing… and when you are sat hand stitching for 10 hours a day you have a lot of time to ponder – so I thought I’d share a short note on the concept behind the work.

The aim of the project for me was to document the process of making without my body and the actions it is performing being recorded, echoing  the lack of self-awareness associated with being in a state of, what is described by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as, ‘flow’, and, even more fundamentally, conveying the anonymity of the craftsman.