Abstract inner landscapes

Esoterika Topia means inner landscapes in Greek. This ongoing series of abstract embroidered landscapes is introducing a new technique in my textile artwork.

I created this embroideries collection, having in mind the high level footprint of artworks in general.
I regularly use several pieces of textile stitched together as a base for my embroideries, instead of cutting out another piece of fabric at the needed mesures.

For this artworks I used draping fabric leftovers from my own textile studio, small pieces of luxury fabrics that I had carefully saved since I left my job in a luxury womenswear house many years ago, and scraps from fabrics that I recently found in Le Couvent’s attic, the artists center where my workshop is settled in Marseille.
I intuitively arranged small abstract lanscapes, associating various pieces of colorful rich textiles to the “poor” offwhite cotton draping fabric, connecting all of them together with a few stitches.

Each arrangement is reflecting the emotions I had while doing this work. The various pieces symbolize the different parts I am made of.

This series enabled me to come back to colors, and to introduce some mouvements and relief in my embroidery artpieces.