Tales My Father Told Me

A dressmaker by trade, Rosita Johanson applied her natural ability to work with thread and fabric to creating colorful embroidered narratives full of people, animals, and activity. Drawing on childhood memories, her imagination, and some topical political and social issues, she would piece together compositions using appliqué, machine embroidery, and hand-stitching. Tales My Father Told Me is one such fantastical scene featuring figures among the clouds engaged in a variety of activities.