Lina Alnadi

Broken Parts

A sort of creative reset has happened to me over the last year and I got back to things I simply enjoyed doing without the pressure of shareable or monetary results. I remembered how much I enjoy drawing, painting and hand drawn animation. With time, I added embroidery to the list, weaving delicious figs, leaves, flowers and anything else that caught my eye. The latest lovechild of all my endeavours has become tapestry on canvas. For a few good days I walked around thinking I’ve invented tapestry, except, I called it “fabric painting” utterly surprised that no one came up with the idea before me. I envisioned shattered blue, going into green, surrounding a face falling apart into nature, and yet composed from it. As an homage to summer memories, which in a way define the child in me, I embroidered my left eye and my boyfriend's right eye and put them together. That’s what I do. I put things together. My day job in film and production, my self work, my deep dives into self help books and the things I make, all aimed at emphasising conflict, irony, paradox and how it all always, eventually, comes together to make its own sense.