Textile artist Raven Dock (b. 1996) who resides in Orlando, FL has sewn over a million stitches that have manifested into realism styled portraits over the course of hundred-plus hours per sitting. Completely self-taught in embroidery and photography, she mixes the two mediums to meet in the middle to create miniature and large-scale textile portraits. Her works have shown in cities such as LA and most recently and notably, the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago. The themes of Raven’s portraits stem from places of hope, cynicism, abandonment, and curiosity. Her subjects are subsequently her family and friends who are willing participants in her character development process. Her portraits balance themselves in background-less spaces that force her audience to see the matter at hand with no additional distractions.