an embroidered sculpture of a venus fly trap, but with an eye where the fly trap would be

Tzipporah Johnston

Tzipporah is a textile and mixed media artist based in Edinburgh. Her practice combines embroidery with installation and archival art. A central theme in her work is the theory of monotropism – the idea that the central characteristic of autism is the tendency to focus deeply on one thing at a time – and its potential to offer a theory of autism that doesn’t foreground distress or deficit.

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