/ embroidered comic on the dress/

2012
hand embroidery_digital print

Along the skirt is embroidered a comics, which can be viewed by the child when the mother is busy with some important work. So, mother shouldn’t be worry that her child could be lost anywhere, because it’s attention will be focused on pictures on the skirt. And at the same time the child can learn something looking over the comic. Children at 3-4years becoming interesting of the question, how did they come to being?

Slavs often compared a woman with the fertile mother-Earth. Even the skirt resembles the shape of the hill and plays the role of feminine energy storehouse.

Zhenokol / FeminatuRe is an embroidered figurative comic strip on a dress, where the first and last pictures are the same. Therefore, it’s called ‘Zhenokol’ — a woman in a circle. This is a cycle about how a woman is born. Pictograms depict a woman trying to climb a man’s hill. She tricks him by preparing him a magic potion. He falls in love, and together they ascend the man’s hill. A frozen lake is discovered there, and the woman dances and awakens the dormant energy. After the blessing, she runs to the hill-skirt, completes it with the shape of her own body, takes the sun, and places it in her bosom.