Single people want relationships, settled people wonder if they’re missing out on something, traveling types miss stability, stable ones are restless, old friends want new friends, new friends miss old friends, and basically almost everyone my age has some dangling worry trailing around after them everywhere that they’re somehow not doing everything, that what they’re doing is not altogether the right thing, that they are missing out. … Do not be ashamed. The doubt is natural, and everyone you know – yes, even that person – carries it sometimes too. Allow yourself to be peaceful. Allow yourself satisfaction in what you have. If you really don’t like it, allow yourself permission to make changes.
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Embroidered Landscapes and Plants Overflow Through the Frames by Ana Teresa Barboza
Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza has mastered the art of embroidery and crocheting through the meticulous manual work in the composition of unconventional representation of landscape sceneries.
Beautifully emulating the texture of nature, Barboza’s sculptures burst through the frame into abstract forms. What seems to begin as a conventional piece of embroidery art ends in an explosion of color, movement, and at times gravity-defying suspensions of messy threads.
Emotive and passionate, Baboza links the mechanics and psyche of the human body, particularly, of the fingertips and our need to be connected to nature.
She composes a wide range of landscapes, which depict the violent and unpredictable movement of the water, the uncontrollable growth of life seen in greenery, and the rocky terrain of the mountains. She seamlessly navigates through different color strands, while reconstructing the image of nature we have embedded into our mind. She demands us to view nature and its architecture from a different perspective. Baboza’s work blurs the line between contemporary sculpture and tapestry-making.
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Psychological Embroidered Landscapes Explore Unspoken Thoughts by Michelle Kingdom
LA-based artist Michelle Kingdom paints the landscape of her whims, tainted by scenes and characters across genres such as mythology and pagan rituals. Her subjects are constantly engaged in an undefined activity. They are poised in mid-action; fused together from references across history, literature, myth and memory. To depict her obscure figures, she embroiders them on a stitched canvas.
Kingdom’s silent subjects portray unspoken words. Her thoughts focus on moments contextualized in relationships, domesticity and self-perception. Instead of taking a traditional approach in embroidery work, where vibrant colors are used, Kingdom uses pastel and pale earthy tones to demonstrate the intellectual meaning of her work.
She continuously uses the female gender to express a psychological evaluation. They are often portrayed as lethargic figures, which are never really seen or spoken. They are devoid of color and emotion. Her female subjects are often accompanied by nature. They are given natural metaphors, which portray the acts of blooming, flying away freely, or being constricted.
Overall, each piece contains hidden meanings, which are left to be interpreted by the audience and their psyche.
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