Two techniques share a single bag. Philip Karto hand-paints one side of the authentic vintage foundation and embroiders the other, stitching the motif into the surface by hand until it can be felt as well as seen. Paint and thread answer each other across the piece. What is embroidered is fixed; it cannot be taken back. Measured in hours rather than minutes, it rewards a closer look and a hand drawn across the surface, where time becomes the material and craft becomes permanence.
