Artist Turns Your Favorite Clichés Into Embroidered Keepsakes
There’s no doubt that visiting Jilly Cooper aka Lisa Bowen’s charming Tumblr of framed cross-stitched clichés will evoke a smile. The mixed media artist created her lovely series, ‘How to String a Sentence Together’ last year after coming across a copy of The Penguin Book of Clichés. Pondering these commonly used expressions, she realized how often they appeared in daily conversation. She then began collecting these phrases, and in her own delightful words says, “it’s like i’m catching cliche-butterflies, and stitching them down before they get lost!”
Bowen sells her framed work on Saatchi Online and can be found tweeting your favorite clichés, continuing her daily ritual as a proud user of “hackneyed and trite expressions.”
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