Stacey Page transforms discarded vintage photographs from banal to fantastic in her on-going series of embroidered portraits. Since 2008, she’s adorned men and women with bizarre headdresses, costumes, facial hair, and much more. This is both conceptually and visually interesting. I love that the stitching creates a “second skin” and a new narrative onto the old pictures. And, at the same time, it’s a great contrast between the smooth silver gelatin photos beneath the fuzzy threads.
