Embellish series
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The Embellish series truly began three years ago — with fragments of old canvases and geometric pieces from my larger calligraphic works, stitched together on an industrial sewing machine. The results were fine, nothing extraordinary — but they opened a small window, a wrinkle in my process that I couldn’t stop thinking about. After creating those first five pieces, I set them aside and eventually forgot about them.

In 2024, due to personal circumstances, I had to close my studio and embark on a nomadic existence that proved far more challenging than I had imagined. Between Europe and South America, our family moved nine times in ten months. Deprived of a stable physical workspace, my practice entered a new, mental phase, one where imagination replaced structure.

It was during this period that the Embellish series evolved and expanded — first within my mind, then through sketches in my notebooks, and finally into tangible form once again. I am not a spiritual person, but this work carried me forward as if it already knew what it wanted to become. My role was simply to execute it. These are the first eight pieces of a much larger revival yet to come.