Returning to Embroidery After Seventeen Years
Ganesh Yantra - completed 2025 - 3" Last fall I retrieved my embroidery supplies after they had been in storage for about seventeen years. I had missed the craft, though photography had filled that creative space in the meantime. The threads, fabrics, and tools filled an entire suitcase. Kali Yantra - completed 2025 - 3" My goal is simple: use everything up, and only then decide whether this is something I want to return to more seriously. In the past I embroidered many mandalas and yantras. Those earlier pieces are my inspiration now. This time I chose to work smaller. My first creations after picking up the needle again were Ganesh, Kali, and Shiva, each around three inches. Shiva Yantra - completed 2025 - 3" There is a quiet connection between the two practices. The same attention that draws me to the spiraling tendrils in the garden, the slow looking, the pleasure in living geometry, also finds expression in the needle. Once I began stitching, I remembered how much I...
