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Artist weaves badass women taking nude selfies to explore female sexuality online

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(Picture: Erin Riley)

Brooklyn based artist, Erin Riley, is trying to reclaim female sexuality by weaving tapestries of women taking nude selfies.

It’s an unusual contrast of a very traditional medium conveying a totally modern phenomenon, but it works incredibly well.

Riley got her first sewing machine when she was eight, starting her life-long fascination for textiles and all things cloth.

In 2009 she began this series on nude women.

She told Metro.co.uk: ‘I was inspired by how women were starting to live their lives online in a sexual manner and the backlash or support that was given.’

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