Alysha Lai (BRDD 2028, Undeclared)
Vessel for Dried Flower Buds, 2023
Embroidery, Floral Fabric, Glass Beads
This piece relates to themes of intimacy, touch, sentimentality, and nostalgia as it's a vessel for the memory of when I was a flower girl at weddings. In its materiality, the vessel for dried flower buds is rawness, patience, time, and process as the whole piece is hand embroidered and beaded. This bag is delicate, textural but purposeful. The memories are distant, the flowers are now dried - the beauty of the flowers is encapsulated in this bag.
Vessel for Dried Flower Buds, 2023
Embroidery, Floral Fabric, Glass Beads
This piece relates to themes of intimacy, touch, sentimentality, and nostalgia as it's a vessel for the memory of when I was a flower girl at weddings. In its materiality, the vessel for dried flower buds is rawness, patience, time, and process as the whole piece is hand embroidered and beaded. This bag is delicate, textural but purposeful. The memories are distant, the flowers are now dried - the beauty of the flowers is encapsulated in this bag.
from While the Sap Flows, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, January 20-February 25, 2024
