Artist Statment
2025
I am a sculptural embroidery artist. In my travels around the world, I have learned from different cultures about ways of life, worldviews, and the role of crafts. I have came to understand that embroidery and nature are timeless threads that connect us all. I embroider elements from nature; it is my primary vocabulary.
I paint with stitches using a sewing machine, and explore boundaries in my medium. From a two-dimensional form, I create a three-dimensional object, focusing on textures, shades, and details.
I engage with philosophical and emotional questions, expressing the paradoxes of life, the passage of time, and the beauty of imperfection. I examine the tension between realism and illusion, and crisis and hope.
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This artwork is inspired by the olive branch as a universal symbol of peace and by Kintsugi (golden repair), the traditional Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. This technique and its underlying philosophy view breakage and repair as an integral part of an object's history rather than a flaw to be hidden.
Despite all the difficulties involved in joining so many broken pieces, the process of repair and rejoining is possible and can result in something even more beautiful and special than the original.
Polyester thread and gold in a box frame
54 x 74 x 4 cm | 21 x 29 x 1.5 inch (frame)
Itamar Yehiel's "Volcanic Pebble" has been selected as a finalist for the Creative Crafts State Prize Berlin 2022 and was featured in an exhibition "Vier Elemente" at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, 2023.
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin 2023
