Look Twice
WHAT DO YOU GET when you combine cross-stitching and graffiti? These fantastic murals. Portuguese artist Ana Martins witnessed her grandmother cross-stitching and realised that both her graphic designs and Grandma’s tablecloth were based on pixels. Now the young artist’s work can be seen on the streets of Portugal. The one pictured is on the wall of a kindergarten in Apelação near Lisbon and is titled No Glass to Hold Me Back. This amazing work is 7.5 x 5 metres and uses ten kilometres of wool and 15,000 screws.