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In this beaded text wall art by California desert artist Panda Landa, bold charcoal capitals spell THIS TIME WILL BE …
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In this beaded text wall art by California desert artist Panda Landa, bold charcoal capitals spell THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT in two blocky lines on a ground of clear and pearly white beads that catch the light with a faint iridescent shimmer. The lettering is chunky and slightly uneven, with the stagger of the rows visible along the bottom edge. The hopeful, slightly wry sentence has a diary-like honesty. Panda Landa's practice is rooted in improvisation and play, and the plainness of the phrase and its pixel-like letters give it a quiet wink. The beaded panel sits against natural linen in a white box frame, and the white-on-white setting makes the dark words stand out.
A crisp, wide piece for a desk wall, a hallway, a kitchen or a bedroom. The pearl white and charcoal suit minimalist and Scandinavian rooms, white shelving, pale wood and matte black fixtures, and read clearly from across a room. Hang it above a desk, over a bench, or alongside other small works on a gallery wall.
Beads, 15 x 7 x 1.75 in (38.1 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm). Framed in white, mounted against natural linen.
These panels are made of tiny beads built up in tight horizontal rows, with each letter formed by changing the bead color from row to row. The finished rectangle is slightly irregular at its edges, a soft, handmade shape rather than a rigid one, and it is mounted against natural linen inside a white box frame. The wording is short and personal, set in blocky, grid-like lettering that echoes pixels, stitches and early screen type.
Panda Landa (b. 1982) is a queer, non-binary visual artist and filmmaker raised in the Nevada desert and now based in Joshua Tree, California. Self-taught, they work through instinct and improvisation, making mixed-media textile pieces from second-hand fabrics that are dyed by hand, stitched and stretched over frames. Sustainability is central to the practice, and every cloth arrives with its own history.
Their ongoing series, including PORTAL, ALTAR, ECLIPSE, VESSEL and RITUAL, touch on queerness, identity, ancestral narrative, healing and transformation, and more recent beaded panels carry short, tender phrases in color. Landa made the 2022 film In the Middle of Everywhere and has offered a workshop on giving new life to clothes at the Joshua Tree Music Festival.
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