Everything will get better...

I Examined the feeling of being trapped in bed due to illness or life circumstances. I Considered the restricted lives of queens and princesses and the women of high society of times gone by, While Exploring the meaning behind The Princess and the Pea, a tale which focuses on a woman's physical comfort.

I Created a Princess and the Pea style four poster bed with layers of luxurious mattresses. Each mattress represents a different aspect of pain. I Used a mixture of hand embroidery, machine and free machine embroidery. I Incorporated a rich palette of colour that signifies royalty and luxury while exploring the different aspects of the body with Chronic Pain.

Accompanying immersive audio experience.

What do you think about when you see a four poster bed? Kings and Queens? Luxury? Fairy tales? Maybe even the Princess and the Pea? A little girl that even though she was lying on layers and layers of luxurious mattresses, still was in pain. There is a lot of people lying in bed in pain. Their bed becomes everything. Where they eat, where they work. Where they laugh, where they cry…

Pick up each mattress, examine it and then carefully lay it back in its resting place. But don't forget to look up, look up for the hope, look for the stars in the sky

Everything will get better…