Dorine Leenders

The idea for this piece came to Dorine after watching a documentary called ‘Seaspiracy’, in which people are attacking and hurting nature. Nature obviously fights back, trying to create a new balance for each of her children. Nature continues to love, therefore sacrificing parts of herself. Her waves wash away all the imbalances and create new life.

To design this new life on the bottom of Mother Mercury tail, Dorine used an early version of Midjourney, which she then translated to these final two pieces of embroidery through several techniques as thread painting, goldwork, turkey stitch, beading etc.

Mother Mercury’s waves show the sad events of the Faroe Islands. Her arm consists of patterned images of baby jellyfish, as seen under a microscope. The playful adult jellyfish are based on a deep sea picture. The fishtail pattern on her tail is inspired by art deco.