/heartstrings/: one’s deepest feelings of love or compassion.

Heartstrings – Giclée Thread Sketch

The heart symbol is my favourite abstraction. It celebrates a formless energy and acts as a pointer to something beyond our understanding. It effortlessly evokes feelings and stirs emotions; spreading its magic in the world. It bridges language, culture, race, religion, gender and status, representing a unified whole around a single concept that connects, changes and inspires us. Love.

The Heartstrings thread sketch is a merge of hand, machine and digital craft.
My process involves mixing yarn on my palette and exploring the shades and natural movement of cotton threads. I then incorporate it with freeform hand and machine sewing techniques, allowing the piece to create itself. Reimagining the handcrafted tapestry in digital format, I create a play between two seemingly opposing worlds. Making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is not.
Imagining a world where dualistic aspects, like hand and digital craft, can live together as one.

“Nothing can spoil love, for all things are dissolved in it – the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. It is the only thing that is its own eternity.” – Krishnamurti