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"The Seamstress" by Larysa Myers features a monochromatic palette, employing soft pencil shades to create a dreamlike setting. The composition highlights a faceless female figure engaged in sewing, surrounded by flowing floral patterns, symbolizing domesticity and creativity. Myers uses minimalist lines and repetitive patterns to evoke a sense of rhythm and introspection. The style is reflective of her exploration of femininity and identity's cyclical nature. This piece delves into the dualities of the feminine experience, blending personal narrative with universal themes. ...
Larysa Myers fuses personal history with universal myths, conjuring images where the cyclical rhythms of life and identity unfold in haunting, dreamlike scenes. Her work reflects on motherhood, femininity, and their inherent dualities, often reducing the body to silhouetted female archetypes that are manipulated and transformed. Her settings vary from domestic and mundane to wild and fantastical, each opening into different facets of psyche and identity. Drawing from imagination influenced by memory, emotion, symbolism, and nature, Myers’ practice unfolds nocturnally—invoking subconscious dreams and night scenes. Repetitive patterns and lines characterize her mark-making, fostering a slow, reflective state that infuses her drawings and paintings with poetic depth. This rhythmical approach invites contemplation of identity, vulnerability, and the passage of time. Through layered imagery and symbolic gestures, Myers creates intimate, evocative works that navigate the complex interplay between the personal and the archetypal, the visible and the hidden. ...