22 | ARTIST PROFILES | EMESSEL
Emessel
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Emission Nebula IC 1805, 2014, Embroidery on silk organza, 41 x 51 cm
nspired by ideas of the infinite and vast astronomical imagery, Emessel’s work takes an entire star-filled cosmos and shrinks it down to a microcosm, painstakingly embroidering solar systems and patterns found in the night sky bead by bead, with each small piece taking weeks or even months to complete.
to minutiae became a source of inspiration and motivation for creating new works and developing her technique.
Emessel’s Parisian training at Lesage in haute couture embroidery affords her work a luxury quality, although the gradual and deliberate nature of this process presented a challenge at first. Eventually the repetitive nature of the work and the attention
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‘For me, slowness allows reflection on the infinite’, explains Emessel, who sees her process as a way to ‘help fill the unknown’.