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by BuuQu9hu 3170 days ago
The cross-stitch/counted-thread samplers look exactly like old-style pixel art, aside from the "fonts" and the subject matter. Plus ça change.
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It's kind of fun, speculating about the interaction between medium and style. Like, that there's something about human minds and a grid of squares that leads to certain things that ~work~ and feel good, regardless of whether that grid was created by the warp and weft of woven cloth or an electronic bitmap.