lia_pas

lia_pas, 8 days ago to mecfs

Catch the premiere of Opera Mariposa’s last online musical performance for #BAMonth2024 and #MEAwarenessMonth ! Join me NOW for a beautiful piano improvisation, and mark the close of an incredible May Awareness Month for #MECFS, #Fibromyalgia and other chronic neuro-immune diseases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ADrkevWNQ

lia_pas, 10 days ago to FiberArts

#WIPWednesday • I finished the burgundy roiling and added small black French knots to the abdomen area and am now extending the nerve endings of the diaphragm. This might be the last section of this #VagusNerve #embroidery! #SciArt #MastoArt

A close up of an embroidery focused on the abdominal vagus stitched in blue chain stitch in perlé thread on dark green cotton. There are many layers of crossing wavy lines. Spiralling around the very straight main vagus is single strand whipped back stitch in electric blue. Some roiling burgundy back stitch in burgundy perlé thread is between the blue. Sparse tiny black French knots are stitched in the gut area. The nerve endings in the diaphragm area are being lengthened with two strand whipped back stitch. A needle minder in the shape of an hourglass that reads, "This is taking forever," sits near the stitches holding a needle.

lia_pas, 24 days ago to FiberArts

#WIPWednesday • I actually managed a lot of #embroidery this week! I finished the burgundy in the left side of the abdomen and started on the right. #VagusNerve #SciArt

An image of an old engraving of a vagus nerve is embroidered on green cotton. The gut is in a large bamboo embroidery hoop. The embroidery of the main nerve lines is done in blue chain stitch in perlé cotton. The brain and some of the face is stitched in the same thread in backstitch. Details in the face are stitched in single strand floss. A bright red anatomical heart is stitched in red whipped back stitch. Around it a bright golden yellow halo in a vesica piscis shape is stitched in single strand thread. Three sets of ribs have are stitched in bright green/yellow stem stitch. There are some tiny details in different colours along some of the nerves. Burgundy roiling is stitched in the left gut area and started in the right. A needle minder in the shape of an hourglass that reads, "This is taking forever," sits near the stitches holding a needle.

lia_pas, 24 days ago to random

My writing from Week 6 of The Visceral Self: Heart is up with some older heart art!

https://open.substack.com/pub/theslowestthread/p/dark-red-nest?r=1mp91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

lia_pas, 25 days ago to random

A day of sweet wonders: A mutation of grey-cheeked thrushes hung out in our yard, and I found violets blooming in our front lawn.

lia_pas, 28 days ago to mecfs

It’s #MEAwarenessDay 💙 I got sick with a virus the summer of 2015 and had to quit everything. I’m grateful I was able to find ways to make art again, but I’m still very limited in what I can manage. Here’s some ways you can enjoy my art & help the #MECFS community

From: @lia_pas
https://vis.social/

lia_pas, 30 days ago to mecfs

I wrote a blog post on all the ways I'm participating in
Opera Mariposa's #MECFS benefit this year for #MEAwarenessMonth. There is art, music, and prizes to be won!

https://liapas.com/2024/05/10/opera-mariposa-benefit-2024/

lia_pas, 30 days ago to mecfs

An exclusive mix of The Hum is now live on Opera Mariposa’s YouTube channel! This is part of their benefit and awareness campaign for #MECFS. #MEAwarenessMonth https://youtu.be/TwimUTiW4qE?si=jrH-3mbZPbek7Eb3

lia_pas, 1 month ago to random

linen :: camp

My two poems from week 5 of The Visceral Self are up!

https://open.substack.com/pub/theslowestthread/p/linen-camp?r=1mp91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

lia_pas, 1 month ago to FiberArts

#WIPwednesday • A long wait at my GP’s yesterday meant I finished my autumnal mitosis #embroidery sampler except for signing. I’ll be writing a pattern for this one! #SciArt

lia_pas, 1 month ago to mecfs

'she breathed' (2018) 🫁
For #BAMonth2024, Opera Mariposa is showcasing this embroidery by me, a multidisciplinary artist with #MECFS. Check it out with exclusive insights and enter to win 'she breathed' art postcards til June 1! #SciArt #MastodonArt https://operamariposa.com/art-showcase/lia-pas/she-breathed/

lia_pas, 1 month ago to random

Someone in one of my mom’s social clubs brought Sharp Notions to talk about and asked, “Does anyone know this local artist Lia Pas?” 😂

lia_pas, 1 month ago to random

A stunning lineup of artists with ME/CFS, some new to me! I’m included as well, along with one of my ME/CFS symptomatology embroideries. #SciArt

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewgiffordphotography/p/people-making-creative-projects-about

lia_pas, 1 month ago to mecfs

I’m the featured artist over on Opera Mariposa’s Instagram today! I’ll be participating in their #MECFS Benefit starting May 1 https://www.instagram.com/p/C53_P2hxy4Q/

lia_pas, 1 month ago to random

A few weeks ago I released The Hum, my first recording since becoming disabled in 2015. You can hear a preview, read more about my process, and buy the mp3 over on ko-fi. #KoFiChallenge

A friend who has insomnia says the recording puts her to sleep which is the best compliment I could hope for with this ambient piece!

https://ko-fi.com/s/872acbb154

lia_pas, 1 month ago to FiberArts

#WIPwednesday • I’m getting close to finishing the left side of the freehand burgundy roiling in the gut area. I did some journaling on how to have more #embroidery time & it paid off! #SciArt #VagusNerve

A close up of an embroidery focused on the abdominal vagus stitched in blue chain stitch in perlé thread on dark green cotton. There are many layers of crossing wavy lines. Spiralling around the very straight main vagus is single strand whipped back stitch in electric blue. Some roiling burgundy back stitch in burgundy perlé thread is between the blue in the left side of the abdomen. A needle minder in the shape of an hourglass that reads, "This is taking forever," sits near the stitches holding a needle.

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

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.

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

#WIPwednesday • I’m still working on the freehand burgundy roiling in the gut area. I had a less #embroidery time this week bc I watched a bunch of writing webinars. #SciArt #VagusNerve

A close up of an embroidery focused on the abdominal vagus stitched in blue chain stitch in perlé thread on dark green cotton. There are many layers of crossing wavy lines. Spiralling around the very straight main vagus is single strand whipped back stitch in electric blue. Some roiling burgundy back stitch in burgundy perlé thread has been started in the left side of the abdomen.

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

#WIPwednesday • I’m continuing the freehand burgundy in the gut area in perlé thread. I had a bit more #embroidery time this week since I’m recovering from my shingles vaccine. #SciArt #VagusNerve

You get the full piece as well as the detail because people keep asking to see my current work in context!

A close up of an embroidery focused on the abdominal vagus stitched in blue chain stitch in perlé thread on dark green cotton. There are many layers of crossing wavy lines. Spiralling around the very straight main vagus is single strand whipped back stitch in electric blue. Some roiling burgundy back stitch in burgundy perlé thread has been started in the left side of the abdomen.

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Here’s a couple of my poems that have made it into my #SciArt #embroidery

Nave of Vibration (2017) An embroidery of an inner ear done in bone white thread on dark purple linen. The centre of the spiral is labeled “nave of vibration”, the body of the inner ear is labeled “plumes of sound”, and the tubes are labeled “windows open.”

lia_pas, 2 months ago to random

THIS is how you do disability and science advocacy in one fell swoop. Thank you, Ed Yong, for your compassion and integrity.

The Ed's Up - Birding for Long-Haulers • Buttondown https://buttondown.email/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-birding-for-long-haulers/

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

#WIPwednesday • I’ve finished the tiny electric blue whipped back stitch along the main vagus. Now for some freehand burgundy in the gut area in perlé thread. #SciArt #embroidery #VagusNerve

lia_pas, 2 months ago to mecfs

I have released The Hum, my first completed music recording since 2015. It's been a long slow road to get to this point, but I can now say I'm a composer again.

You can hear a sample and buy the entire 11 minute track on my Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/s/872acbb154

I also wrote about my process for creating this piece, including recovering enough from #MECFS -induced #hyperacusis to play music again. https://liapas.com/2024/03/15/the-hum/

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

I took a while to finish reading Sharp Notions bc I wanted to savour it. It is such a well crafted anthology & every piece gave me something to think about. Kudos to editors Marita Daschal and Nancy Lee for doing such a brilliant job!

Yes, that is my #embroidery on the cover.

lia_pas, 2 months ago to FiberArts

I took a while to finish reading Sharp Notions bc I wanted to savour it. It is such a well crafted anthology & every piece gave me something to think about. Kudos to editors Marita Daschal and Nancy Lee for doing such a brilliant job!

Yes, that is my #SciArt #embroidery on the cover. You can purchase the anthology here https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Sharp-Notions