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Dark charcoal capitals spell MAY THIS SOFTEN ME across translucent silver-gray beads in this beaded text wall art by California …
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Dark charcoal capitals spell MAY THIS SOFTEN ME across translucent silver-gray beads in this beaded text wall art by California desert artist Panda Landa, its irregular edge like a stretch of ribbon cut by hand. The beads are cool and slightly frosted, with the letters standing out as dense dark blocks, which gives the prayer-like phrase a weight that is gentle rather than hard. The wording is a wish, an invitation to be changed. Panda Landa's work involves healing and transformation, and this is a direct, quiet version of that theme. The beaded panel is mounted against natural linen in a white box frame, ten inches square.
A calm, neutral square for a bedroom, a meditation corner, a bathroom or a study. The silver-gray and charcoal suit white walls, pale gray linen, light oak and matte black accents, and work as a reminder on a nightstand wall or beside a mirror. Hang it alone or with a pair of small works in a quiet gallery wall.
Beads, 10 x 10 x 1.75 in (25.4 x 25.4 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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