lia_pas, 
It’s #PortfolioDay! I’m a Canadian multidisciplinary and #embroidery artist whose work focuses on #SciArt, especially #anatomy and #symptomatology.
For more information about my work check out my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lia_pas
Bleeding Vessel (2022). An embroidery of a uterus, including Fallopian tubes and ovaries, stitched in black thread on white linen textured like a woodcut. Inside the uterus, the endometrium is thickly stitched in bright red and burgundy. There is a large fibroid on the top of the uterus and a smaller fibroid on the right lower side, both beaded in red, pink, and cream beads. A cyst on the right ovary is beaded in clear, purple, and red beads, and a small section of dark red and purple beads is a polyp inside the uterus. Long burgundy strings hang from the bottom of the uterus with red beads on them that extend past the vaginal opening.
neuraesthenia (2017) An embroidery on a pale natural linen, there is the pale outline of a woman’s lower legs and feet, heels together, toes apart. From the soles of the feet, thick red/orange lines coil beneath. From the big toes moving upwards, thick blue and off-white lines rise up through the inner calves and branch off at the knees. These lines coil and intertwine in a brain-like shape, and then move back down in wavy lines like a wide skirt around the ankles.
she breathed (2018) An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.
