Monday, September 28, 2009

Sewing as a Fetish

I guess sewing different parts of your body including your lips shut is a fetish. I never knew that. How does that really fit into Sewing as Media? I think that it does, even though I haven't really come up with the answer of what message that is sending. The bolivian women had a striaght forward reason, but the sewing body parts thing is really different and masochistic so that is probably why I don't really understand it. It is too far removed from what I do. I think it can look kind of cool on art posters but the actual pictures of what it really looks like I don't know. I found all of these crazy sights about how people felt like it was this deep kind of meditation not to be able to speak for 7 hours until they cut the threads off. I kind of get that because I think sewing is a kind of a meditative thing, as is not speaking. A friend of a friend went and took a vow of silence for the summer and lived with a bunch of monks and I guess the experience was really peaceful. The idea of pain making you feel alive and expressing it through sewing does send a message. Especially, if you run around all night all sewn up for everyone to see. Anyway, I am sure if anyone ever reads this that does actually sew themselves, they will probably think I have it all wrong but that's o.k. This person published a story all about sewing themselves. It's not super graphic. http://www.bme.com/ritual/A70202/ritaneed.html
Some Pictures of what that looks like
http://images.google.com/images?q=lips+sewn+shut&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&rlz=1I7ADFA_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=hn7FSr_5OsXR8Abmt51G&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1

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