Well it isn’t exactly Tracey Emin and my bed is not the title ,but if have finally partly put together part of my installation of embroideries titles’The worst Journey in the world ‘which was a phase coined by Whinston Chirc
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hill when he described the ordeal of the Arctic Convoys.There is three pieces of embroidery in this work,a blanket, a jacket and an army shirt.The jacket is the main piece which I have photographed and spoke of quite a lot in this blog, the shirt which I have folded neatly in the old suitcase.This shirt I have stitched the countries where he visited during the war apart from the town of St Helens where he was born and grew up,the town where he was destined to stay there ,live and work in either the coal mines or the glassworks.Where the jacket tells in general the whole story and the stories he told us about the war ,the blanket tells of nightmares,and thinks he didn’t talk of much at all also blank space where experiences went unsaid.This piece of work is quint personal to me and my family but to the viewer I hope that they can take their own stories from the work and enjoy the visual and intricate work on the jacket.
