Larysa Bernhardt is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Larysa Bernhardt was born in Ukraine and moved to United States in her thirties. Her skill of textile smithing was passed down through the generations on the maternal side of her family, which she honed by years of working in the fashion industry. Disappointed by “disposable fashion” trends – and having huge respect for the incredible amount of work and resources that goes into creating beautiful fabrics made with organic materials – she resigned herself from the fashion industry and set on the path of creating textile sculptures and wall hangings showcasing vintage and antique tapestries and velvet’s, often embellished with her hand embroidery and beading.
She taps into the ancient techniques of stumpwork and appliqué for her unique vision of textile storytelling, which delves into the way she perceives the world and the feminine presence in it.
Larysa Bernhardt has been collecting vintage and antique textiles for decades, checking them for moths obsessively. It made her think – what is the moth’s tireless search for the light in dark places but the perfect allegory for humanity? Human life is short but human stories persist. At the end we will all become stories – I think Margaret Atwood said this.
In her work Larysa attempts to weave silky threads of the ephemeral into the eternal, webbing together stories already told and the ones that still needing telling. Creating a dream within a dream, her personal universe where time isn’t linear and everything happens simultaneously – past, present, and future.
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