Liz Kueneke is an artist who works with communities to help them understand their neighborhood through participatory embroidery. She recently became involved in a project in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Several people worked on this embroidered map, adding their own details and information to flesh it out, and this was the final result:
She has also worked with other communities in Los Angeles:
Bangalore:
And Manhattan:
This is a fantastic idea, as the participants add value to the embroidered maps with their own experiences. It provides a social history to the area that you wouldn’t get from municipal maps.
For more information on the Buskwick project, you can visit her Flickr photostream, or visit her gallery for pictures of the other communities she has worked with. Superb stuff.
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Amazing!!!
These look so awesome without the wonderful backstory that with the story they’re practically TOO awesome.
this is just incredible! love it
GAH! Two of my favorite things, needlework and maps! Can’t get any better than this.