Dissonance | Chaotic Happy x NonCompliant Cyborg

~3.5" x 2.5" oval embroidered felt patch with iron on backing

This piece was created in collaboration with Chaotic Happy (@Chaotic_Happy) on IG and is part of a series of collab patches.

I'm drawn to Chaotic Happy's work because to me it has a sense of brevity without minimalism. Their embrace of bold color & chaos carried out in each piece through a focused collection of shapes created through repetition is both meditative and poetic.

Their designs also lend themselves incredibly well to creative embroidery. Finding ways to recreate the feel of a sketch was really fun, and I look forward to sharing the ways we have been incorporating texture and pattern into upcoming pieces.

Image Descriptions:

Image 1 - Black felt embroidered patch. It is shaped like an oval with repeated lines line a sketch. There are three upper bod outlined figures overlapping each other. The left is red, the right is green, and the center is white. The center figure gets one eye from each neighbor. The center figure is also appliqued in a way that gives it the appearance of being filled with smoke or vapor. The patch is suspended above a bunch of replica patches.

Image 2 - The sketch that inspired the patch below the words "The Inspo" next to the patch from the first image labelled "the patch". Below, it reads: Chaotic Happy X NonCompliant Cyborg