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    • HOME
    • about
    • WORK
      • Paradise Series
      • Misplaced Installations
      • Misplaced Photos
      • Misplaced Fiber works
      • Dear Mind Series
      • Mental Narratives Photos
      • Mental Narratives Books
      • Mental Narratives Linen
      • Mental Narratives Thread
      • Mental Narratives Paint
      • Mental Narratives Collage
      • Quilt Series
      • Painting Series
      • I am an Immigrant Series
      • Stitched Series
      • Small works - paper
    • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
      • Diary of the Recent Past
      • HOPEMASK
    • Dot Art Studio
      • Young Artist Summer Camp
    • Contact

laura villarreal

laura villarreallaura villarreallaura villarreal
  • HOME
  • about
  • WORK
    • Paradise Series
    • Misplaced Installations
    • Misplaced Photos
    • Misplaced Fiber works
    • Dear Mind Series
    • Mental Narratives Photos
    • Mental Narratives Books
    • Mental Narratives Linen
    • Mental Narratives Thread
    • Mental Narratives Paint
    • Mental Narratives Collage
    • Quilt Series
    • Painting Series
    • I am an Immigrant Series
    • Stitched Series
    • Small works - paper
  • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
    • Diary of the Recent Past
    • HOPEMASK
  • Dot Art Studio
    • Young Artist Summer Camp
  • Contact

mental narratives series: photos

  

The Mental Narratives: photograph series is an exploration of memory, a part of the mental process, through the use of thread, textiles, and photography. In this series, I contrast the feelings of yearning for a long and lost childhood with my need to reframe the initial beliefs taught then. By paying homage to the gone humans that live in these photographs, all while creating a barrier that impedes our ability to see them fully, I intend to blur the memories and reconstruct new ones. Using traditional Mayan embroidery techniques, later transformed into my own, I aim to rewrite memory in a way that serves me better now.

embroidered photographs

              Mental Narratives #66 / Embroidery on photographic postcard / 7x5"(18x13cm) / 2019




 

Mental Narratives #10 / Embroidery on photographic postcard, brass / 9x32"(23x81cm) / 2019



         Mental Narratives #68 / Embroidery on photographic postcard / 5x7" (13x18cm) / 2019



             Mental Narratives #69 / Embroidery on photographic postcard / 7x5"(18x13cm) / 2019





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