The
idea of telling my life story in the style of the Bayeux
tapestry came to me when Steph and I
visited Bayeux whilst staying in Honfleur in September 2012.
The famous tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066
combines figurative images (the events depicted), symbolic images (around the
borders), and written text (the Latin commentary), all mediated via a popular
representational technology of the time -- embroidery. I copied this
section of it from a postcard, and found it fun and challenging to draw and
also intriguing as a story-telling form that can carry all sorts of intuited
visual and textual messages as well as its surface narrative.Just what I needed
for a retirement project, except I don’t embroider. Well, I thought, Grayson Perry probably doesn’t embroider either but he’s still done tapestries so what
the hell I’ll just draw them.
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