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Grains

In this wall-mounted hand embroidery, Richard McVetis rendered over 40,000 seed stitches with black cotton thread on cream wool, forming a sphere that alludes to the celestial and cellular. The stitches mark his hand’s rhythm, a performance the artisan refers to as "obsessive intricacy."
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Richard McVetis
London, United Kingdom
Richard McVetis earned a degree in embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University and a postgraduate degree in constructed textiles at the Royal Col ...
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