Playing False by Sharon Boggon

This body of work was produced for an exhibition "Playing False" held at the ACT Craft Gallery, Canberra in September 1997. In this series of panels I explored how women are representing themselves on the World Wide Web and the connection between 'home making' and 'home page'. Embroidery is a culturally-loaded textile art often associated with gender, the domestic, and memory or nostalgia.

I use stitchery as seduction. The desire to touch a textile and the need to connect with the work in a physical sense is a metaphor for the internet's promise of community.

Each panel in the series was created as a result of visiting an individual's Home page. I visited each site, and with the owner's permission, took screen shots of each woman's site. These images I combined and manipulated in Photoshop. The manipulated images were then printed on cotton fabric using a Colour Style Writer 2400. To each print I then added embroidery using hand dyed threads.

Each image in this exhibition is associated with an individual's site. A link to this source is provided on the page. Some women have taken the opportunity to comment on building a home page and the internet and what the experience has meant to them. Click on the images for a closer look, explore the source sites and read the stories associated with them.................

Enjoy!