These are by Inge Jacobsen, I found them during my knitting project but they only managed to make it into my bibliography. You can look at more of her amazing things here. Jacobsen's work is a response the image saturation present in the world today. She uses high fashion, porn, and news paper imagery, along with embroidery, cutting, and weaving. In her artist statement Jacobsen says it takes about 50 hours to finish each Vogue cover. It makes disposable things such as magazines into one of a kind artworks, and makes obvious the object nature of images (object as in a thing to be held rather than as in objective, in case there's any confusion). Jacobsen draws a parallel here between the object-ness of the photographs and objectification of the women within them. On top of this is the status of cross stitch and embroidery as women's crafts. In conclusion, Jacobsen makes really intriguing pieces that I could look at for a very long time, which at the same time are heavily loaded with meaning and connections.
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