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“Bike,” cross-stitch embroidery, 24 x 48 inches. All images © Francine LeClercq, shared with permission

Analogous to pixels, the tight grid of cross-stitch serves as a fitting canvas for translating digital footage to a handcrafted form. New York City-based artist Francine LeClercq’s embroideries of surveillance imagery capture the tell-tale date and time stamps and grainy black-and-white pictures in intricately detailed, monochrome compositions.

Embroidery has long been linked to domesticity, usually created at home for the home as embellished handkerchiefs, tablecloths, wall decorations, or gifts. Cross-stitch is often associated with samplers, which makers—historically women—would create to demonstrate their needlework skill by stitching motifs like the alphabet, figures, their own names, and decorative borders.

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