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From a series of hand embroidered photographs based on school photos from the 1970s. 2086px x 3000px @ 300 dpi 1/1 NFT In the class photographs, the faces of the students, or what would normally be the main focal points of the image, are obscured with cross-stitch embroidery made to resemble the digital pixel structure of the image. By obscuring what would typically be the most important parts of the image, body language and otherwise overlooked details are brought into focus revealing how, even at a young age, children were taught and instructed to pose in particular ways, often based on gender. I am interested in this time period not only because it is my own generation, but because it is the last generation to have a childhood unclouded by digital technology. These class pictures were taken before camera phones and digital cameras when having one’s class picture taken was a more formal occasion- something that has been lost due to the ubiquitous nature of digital photography.