My artwork expresses the circle and cycles of life. This idea came to me as I thought about women’s and nature’s cycles. I started my research about the feminine in 2013. The motivation behind my art is how there is more than the physical world, which leads me to reconnecting women with nature and, therefore, their own essence.
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I explore 3 foundational media: ceramic, embroidery and photography. The issues that permeate my work emerge from the underlying meaning of these 3 media. Embroidery as artistic language just came about to me recently, even though weaving is an old practice of mine, passed on from generation to generation in my family. On the other hand, my passion for analog photography came from my grandfather.
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I am currently working on a few series. One of them depicts the image of women’s bodies as elements of nature. I use pictures I took of various women in photo shoots done in my own apartment. I embroider all kinds of natural elements on these pictures: such as trees, roots, the rain, the wind and fire. Another series has my female ancestry on my mother’s side as subject - great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, aunt, etc. I embroider on unusual surfaces: leaves, recycled paper, different types of fabric and objects, and pictures of these women interlaced with embroidery and crochet. The result is a multilayered art piece, as seen in some of my sculptures made of resin.
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This creative process was born after my mom passed away in 2013. I realized that my grief was softened by experiencing natural phenomena. About two years ago, memories from my childhood and adolescence gracefully came back to mind: scenes of me knitting with my mother and learning from her everything about flosses, yarns and the embroidery process. My current research and artwork reflects old family tales, which I see as my deeper “Roots building Roofs”.