In 2017 artist Susan Aldworth put out a call for other artists to take part in a project as part of her investigations into sleep. The brief was to embroider a given pillowcase using two colours of thread supplied by Aldworth. The embroidery should explore thoughts about sleeping or not sleeping.
As a tinnitus sufferer who finds the incessant noise most disturbing at night, I chose to embroider my pillowcase with words taken from a web forum for fellow tinnitus sufferers and used a combination of wool and stitch to superimpose the soundwaves of my particular tinnitus over the text.
The exhibition - One Thousand and One Nights - consisted of hundreds of embroidered pillowcases sewn by people from all over the UK – prisoners, schoolchildren, craft groups and students from the Royal School of Needlework as well as many members of the public hung in York St Mary's.
As a tinnitus sufferer who finds the incessant noise most disturbing at night, I chose to embroider my pillowcase with words taken from a web forum for fellow tinnitus sufferers and used a combination of wool and stitch to superimpose the soundwaves of my particular tinnitus over the text.
The exhibition - One Thousand and One Nights - consisted of hundreds of embroidered pillowcases sewn by people from all over the UK – prisoners, schoolchildren, craft groups and students from the Royal School of Needlework as well as many members of the public hung in York St Mary's.