Surnames and Siblings by defiantsquid Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Procreate Dimensions: 5760 x 7680 px Year: 2025 Price: $500.00 USD Status: available To be part of a family is to be both the thread and the needle. Some threads bind more tightly than others. I created this piece after reading about the early lives of Vanessa and Virginia Stephens - incredibly talented sisters who are now more commonly known by their married names: Bell and Woolf. Why collect this work?With no image supplied, the title and description provide the evidence: the work frames family identity as something made through both inherited connection and changing names. The artist reports creating the piece after reading about the early lives of sisters Vanessa and Virginia, later known by their married surnames, Bell and Woolf. This historical prompt accords with their stated research-based approach.The title pairs “surnames” with “siblings,” setting social naming beside kinship. In the accompanying thread-and-needle metaphor, each family member is both material and agent, bound to others while also participating in that binding.Catalogued as a 5760 by 7680 pixel Procreate work, it was made within a digital painting environment that may enable repeated revision and precise control of forms. These measurements specify pixel dimensions, not physical size.The work can anchor discussion of how marriage-based naming conventions affect cultural memory, especially when two sisters’ shared beginnings become less apparent in the names under which their work is remembered. About the Artistdefiantsquid defiantsquid is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Digital Painting and Animation. Based in Norwich, United Kingdom. Nationality: British Pixel painter and nostalgia enthusiast | He/Him
