Embroidered Texts-Naturescapes (2011)
Engraved texts create “natural written landscapes” in space. The written word becomes a continuation and product of nature. The pattern of written words is an image, a tissue; it is the form of verbal speech. The drawings of words, letters, texts constitute natural landscapes and an extension of nature itself. The text is deliberately rendered unreadable. The only thing remaining is the tissue of the text, the pattern, the embroidered text-landscape. The word, hidden within the embroidered written pattern, no longer composes the universally established hymn to Mother Nature or to the Goddess of Fertility.
The script-engraving/the engraving script has become my own personal medium of expression. It transports small everyday worries, memories, and desires. It is a mute, unreadable attempt to connect my present and past with a script-thread, and look ahead. Thus, the “body” of word becomes a natural landscape, relieved from signification and meanings. It speaks of everyday trivia, private memories and experiences.
Through the “body” of verbal speech I engrave the mute embroidered text, without any reference to formal hymns-myths, but using my own experience. A dialogue between nature and language begins. The wish is to restore the lost cohesion of nature and word, body, language. It is however a natural embroidered landscape mute and decorative handcraft! An allusion to the feminine word, which may now be uttered freely, but still remains powerless and decorative. But is the feminine word-work hopelessly destined to decorate the present? Or could it possibly be the engraved line-thread that embroiders patiently, so as to connect, today, the future with the past?
The reference to embroidery as a clearly feminine pastime occupation is explicit as it is deliberate. Indeed it’s called “needlework” and not a “work of art”. Yet it incorporates the mute feminine word, in order to seduce, embellish our lives, decorate our table. What is a work of art and what is merely “needlework”? Where does the border between the two lie? How is it abolished?