For Tokyo-based textile artist Mana Morimoto, aka MNMRMT, thread is therapy. Her first attempt at embroidery on paper was on one of her friend’s artworks, and she hasn’t turned back since.
Morimoto’s fiber art is mostly geometrical, and always colorful and quirky. She sews directly on digitally printed photographs, ticket stubs, and the odd record sleeve.
Having found that black and white photographs make for more vivid compositions, she converts images into monochrome before printing them out on thick paper. Her embroidery patterns are inspired by her daydreams and crazy imagination.
The artist has been experimenting with using a loom to create more complicated compositions, and has turned some of her scanned art pieces into wacky GIFs that she uploads onto her Tumblr page, along with the rest of her fascinating compositions.
“I always have hard time describing my work; I simply love making thread beams come out of people’s eyes (laugh)! I would say that my work is pretty weird; it can be creepy and funny at the same time,” she said in an interview with Artchipel.
[via Mana Morimoto and Artchipel]