$795.00
Press Defence is all contact and tension. Two men, bodies close, hands on skin, the push and pull of competition rendered in warm terracotta, burnt orange, cream, and cool pool blue. It’s athletic and intimate in equal measure. The kind of moment that lasts a split second in real life but deserves to be permanent.
The cropped composition does the heavy lifting. No context, no backstory, just the press of one body against another, the blue water cutting in at the edge, and hundreds of hand-placed stitches capturing the heat of the moment in thread. The title nods to the basketball term for aggressive, chest-to-chest defence. Make of that what you will.
Warm skin tones against the cool chlorine blue give Press Defence a colour tension that’s as charged as its subject matter. It’s sport. It’s the male body. It’s textile art that doesn’t apologise for what it finds interesting.
Dimensions: Diameter 10.16 cm, Height 10.16 cm
One moment. Stitched forever.