Michele Landel

Happiness Is This (Mimosas), 2022

Photography, textile, thread, pastels

75 x 90 cm 

About the artist:

Michele Landel creates beautifully eerie patchwork paintings using photographs, fabric, paper, and thread. Whether draped or flattened, her embroidered bedsheets are about engaging the need and desire to look and the inherent power struggle between the one looking and the one being looked at. She stitches over figures, cut flowers, and domesticated spaces to evoke symbols of power, loss, and memory. Mirroring and shadows are also often repeated to show self-awareness and internal worlds. Drawing on the intimacy associated with stained and mended secondhand bedsheets and the machine embroidery connected with craft, her artwork references the domestic while also deliberately distancing itself from traditional fiber arts.

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