Brittle Dried Leaves Brought Back to Life with Colorful Embroidered Bouquets

Artist Solange Nunes thinks out­side the hoop by embroi­der­ing on a pre­car­i­ous material—dried leaves. Tak­ing on their brit­tle and del­i­cate sur­face, she stitch­es col­or­ful bou­quets on the brown back­grounds. The jux­ta­po­si­tion she’s cre­at­ed is excit­ing in more ways that one. Visu­al­ly, the bright hues cause the leaves to pop, but the con­cept is what makes them tru­ly allur­ing; the embroi­dery depicts liv­ing blooms on some­thing dead and acts like a memo­r­i­al for the col­or­ful life the leaf once lived.

Solange sells a selec­tion of her work on Elo7.

Solange Nunes brings brittle nature back to life with embroidery on leaves.