Dear viewer,
Oil and wool thread on canvas
Thread is a body of work in which painting and textile physically intersect. Each canvas begins as a realist oil painting — a carefully constructed image of the human figure, often poised in a moment of tension, memory, or transformation. Onto this painted surface, dimensional wool threads are stitched by hand.
The thread is not an embellishment.
It is an intervention.
Soft, voluminous, slightly untamed, the wool disrupts the illusionistic depth of oil painting. It pierces the surface, crosses it, restructures it. What appears as image becomes object.
Throughout the series, the human body stands at the center — vulnerable yet composed. The figures often inhabit suspended states: before movement, within tension, at the edge of becoming. Around or across them, geometric or linear thread structures emerge. These stitched elements function as invisible forces made visible — memory, thought, emotional architecture, inner pressure.
Thread carries layered meaning. It is connection and restriction. It is continuity and repair. It binds, outlines, interrupts, and protects. In this series, thread becomes both metaphor and material — a physical line that records the act of transformation.
The works oscillate between realism and abstraction, softness and structure, surface and depth. The tactile presence of wool challenges the traditional flatness of painting, introducing a sculptural dimension and reinforcing the idea that identity is constructed, stitched, and constantly reconfigured.
Thread is a meditation on how we hold ourselves together —
how memory is woven into the body,
how tension shapes posture,
how transformation begins as a barely visible line.
