i wish i could sink, i want to be consumed
a series of embroidered illustrations that dives into the overwhelming and isolating feelings of girlhood. The dainty medium of embroidery, historically dismissed as a woman’s craft, embodies that delicateness of what girlhood is perceived to be. While the heavy theme hides the weighty truth of growing up a young girl. Sadie Rose du Vigneaud grew up as a young girl on the materializing internet sphere. This exploration of a new world has greatly shaped the artist and her explorations of girlhood. The overwhelming battle of adolescence with the emergence of the digital age of glamorized girlhood online. How does one become the perfect girl at thirteen? Perfectionism, calorie country, shaving raw, skin tight suits and a sport demanding artistic performance and excessive endurance. du Vigneaud, a former competitive swimmer, plays on the parallels between the bare and chilly world of a swimmer in water in comparison to the barebones display of a girl hiding in the depths online. I just want to sink.
Honorable mention in Society of Illustrators' 2023 Student Scholarship Competition and 3x3 International Illustration Show.
Honorable mention in Society of Illustrators' 2023 Student Scholarship Competition and 3x3 International Illustration Show.
lonely women
An exploration of Collette's "The Vagabond" and the archetypes of lonely women presented in the novel. The Wife, The Opportunist, The Fool, and The Vagabond. The novel and series are both interested in the ways women are in this perpetual state of loneliness and tragedy living in a patriarchal world. In the final piece, “The Vagabond”, a woman stands proudly alone looking onward and holding a book. This is representational of Renee in the novel. She has traveled through the each of the other archetypes and arrived back at The Vagabond more secure in her path. She is much more comfortable being unsettled and what is a t surface level, perceived to be the lonely woman, but in reality a much more free woman.