Monica C. LoCascio

 

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Cops 👏🏻 do 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 belong 👏🏻 near 👏🏻children 👏🏻 #defundthepolice #elijahmcclain
White silence = Violence. See you tonight #wien
Posting on this platform doesn’t mean anything if it’s not backed up by a real, hard look at and acknowledgment of one‘s own internalized racist socialization and a commitment to anti-racism action. Posting only during a news cycle
It’s not broken thank goodness just a bone bruise from a silly bike fall right at the new moon and right when I felt a huge wave of new work surging. Now I have to slow down.... read and write (not Type) and plan 🌀 #studioportraitlighting #cac
“So Much Surface Area for Hubris (Skin)”, Hand-embroidered cotton thread on cotton Aida, plastic hoop, 24.5 x 24.5 cm, 2019 . . . . . .. ... ..... #art #geometry #design #geometric #textile #fabric #surfacetexture #artandnature #subconsci
I’ve started *another* new style of stitch on this piece, which I lovingly like to call the “what was I thinking” stitch, aka the “this takes forever” or “I should have tested this first”. Whatever you want t
Just LOOK at these beauties drying in the sun. #SCOBY embroidery fabric tests # 2 + 3. I couldn’t be happier with these results. Next test is going to be big enough to stretch on the oblong hoops I had cut 🤞 . . . . . .. ... ..... #art #design
I always read a lot of #books at one time. This bunch is particularly magically real and dark and perfectly singing together. #einsteinsdreams written by Alan LIGHTman is one of my favorite books of all #time. #100yearsofsolitude is intoxicating for
Starting small with my first #scoby fabric test. I love the weirdness of the growth patterns and how its skin-ness which is the whole point. I grew it (#kombucha) and stretched it, and am now hoping it will dry well so I can stitch on it. This one is
I spent my birthday weekend reinstalling The Great Wall, a piece created from astronomical data of the BOSS Great Wall that showed at the Natural History Museum in Vienna for 6 months in 2018, in its forever home in some of my best friends‘ epi
When I was 9 years old I cut off all my hair. We kept it. That haircut seems to me now like a moment that marks a real transition from child to teenager. The strands hold all the records of the physiological changes I experienced moving from Saudi to
Trying ALL THE NEW THINGS AT ONCE. #shitsgettingweirdandilikeit #newcreationmythologies . . . . . .. ... ..... #art #geometry #design #geometric #textile #fabric #surfacetexture #artandnature #subconscious #somaticart #carljung #texture #artandscienc