Many of you may already know of the amazing work of Fiber artist Nava Lubleski. But just in case you don’t, prepare to be inspired.

I first saw Nava’s work at the ever inspiring Museum of Art and Design show Extreme Embroidery…and well I loved it.

Nava uses found linens allowing the stains, tears and remnants of the fabrics’ past- be her inspiration-embroidering and sculpting  the already present stains and holes.

She states:
My work explores the contradictions between the impulse to destroy and the compulsion to mend. I juxtapose rapid acts of destruction, such as spilling and cutting, with painstaking, restorative labor. Embroideries are hand-stitched over stains and rips, contrasting the accidental with the meticulous, constructing narrative from randomness and mistake…

I find the concept to be genius, simple, and poetic…perfect…and the resulting work is beyond lovely…

As an artist, I myself am very interested in the mundane in our everyday existence and the technique of embroidery – so the way that Nava’s work remains grounded in the everyday but becomes so abstract in the same moment is…   gorgeous.

What in your everyday can be inspiration?