about me.

hello, my name is benjamin. i was raised outside of seattle, and received a couple of undergraduate art degrees from the university of washington. i moved to chicago in 2004, where i live with a girl and a couple cats. i have a studio in my apartment where i do my embroidery and other artwork.

i began my embroidering on a 3 month, 17 city adventure through europe in the summer and autumn of 2005. trying to find a creative outlet that was small and easy to move, embroidery was a perfect and fun project. i made a couple t-shirts from patterns in europe and continued working from patterns when i returned to chicago. after making many shirts for myself, i went out on a limb and began designing the images that i would embroider and making the shirts you see on this website.

my embroidery is all done by hand, using the back stitch technique. all of the designs on the shirts that you see are original, making these shirts one-of-a-kind pieces. they take quite a bit of time to make but i enjoy the process and seeing a drawing come to life and be a piece of wearable artwork.