Embroidery (2021) Sculptuur door Larisa Ruy

"Embroidery", Larisa Ruy
100×100 cm, bas-relief, gold leaf, author’s technique

"It looks like an embroidery no one ever wore.
It wasn’t made to be worn — it was made to be understood,"
said a Viennese gallerist at a private preview, when the piece still had no name.

The name remained — not because it was obvious,
but because it was exact.

Some artworks decorate space.
Others define it.

“Embroidery” is not a narrative painting. It’s a symbolic structure — a matrix woven from silence, symmetry, and elemental power.

The composition is rooted in sacred geometry. Every detail has its weight:

🔴 Poppy — not just a flower, but a silence point. In Europe, it’s a symbol of remembrance. Here, it’s a sign of silence louder than any scream.
🌾 Wheat — more than fertility. It represents the force that matures underground before rising.
🧬 Ornamental lines — not decoration, but orientation.

This is not embroidery in the textile sense.
It’s memory — imprinted, not sewn.

In times of rupture, a new aesthetic emerges: minimalist, grounded, unbreakable.
Symmetry + relief + gold vibration — not for beauty’s sake, but for presence.

This work was created in a country at war — but it is not about war.
It is about what holds, what withstands, what quietly restores order in a torn world.

This is not an escape into ornament —
it’s the architecture of inner resilience.
A system, not a scene.
An axis, not a decoration.

This is not a piece to merely look at —
it’s a piece to live with.

It’s not purchased for its story —
but for the state of being it brings.

Verwante thema's

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