Vegetable Vision
The exhibition Vegetable Vision draws inspiration from the artistic practice of American artist Emma Roulette. Although she works as an illustrator for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and others, she is in fact a professional zoologist and entomologist. Her experience in this strictly scientific field has helped her to develop her own concept of nature as an object of art – nature as a collection of equal and equally important elements, which is both vital and impersonal. Nature in which no one species is more significant than another.
The works I present in this exhibition were created especially for the occasion and are part of the StenoGrams series – visual messages inscribed in the fabric of time. I work with the technique of eco-printing, where plants leave their natural pigments directly onto textile. These imprints become the beginning of a visual language – each form and hue carrying memory, presence, and life.
Over these imprints, I build additional imagery through freehand embroidery – a delicate, almost ritual gesture in which the thread becomes a voice. In this way, nature and the human hand enter into dialogue, creating subtle, multilayered narratives.
I dedicate these works to my grandmother Maria – a master of handmade lace, born and raised in Dobrudzha, with ancestral roots in the village of Bosnek. She was my father’s mother and a bearer of a feminine thread that now continues through me.
Today, life has brought me back to these lands, and I have the chance to listen and feel the messages of the past – through nature, through material, through the gestures of the hands.
“Veretabe Vision” is, for me, a vision beyond the visible – a world where sensation, memory, and silence speak a common language.
