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I was doing a lot of new, stressful processes, so I didn’t take as many progress pictures as I wish I had - but here’s what I’ve got! As always, here’s my disclaimer that for these photos I don’t carefully control the lighting, camera angles, and backgrounds the way I do for the final images. You can click into any of them to page through in a lightbox!
Between Worlds:
Sower’s Shadow:
Woven Thresholds:
Surveillance:
A companion to Surveillance, this work casts black-headed gulls as drones above a sea built from lace- and felt-placemat stencils and stamps. To evoke the stark visual language of USSR propaganda, the composition relies on a limited color palette and flat, simplified forms. The painted red laser beams begin as perfokaart stencils and then scale progressively toward the panel's edges. The substrate is a crochet base panel used for bags and accessories; ironically, the perforations in the panel are laser cut. Through its use of domestic textile imagery and substrate, the piece serves as a bridge between my Soviet occupation series and my ongoing explorations of Estonian craft traditions.
The title of this piece comes directly from a USSR propaganda poster from 1953.
This is Vigilance Is Our Weapon, acrylic, lace and perfokaart stenciling, and felt stamping on crochet base panel, 11.8x11.8x.125”, 2026.
Shelby Prindaville's gulls-as-drones painting on crochet base panel.
