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Four short lines of charcoal capitals, THIS IS, EVERY, THING and TO ME, stack down a panel of opaque cream …
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Four short lines of charcoal capitals, THIS IS, EVERY, THING and TO ME, stack down a panel of opaque cream beads, the letters blocky and grid-like, the ground soft as porcelain or milk glass. The word EVERYTHING is split across two lines, so the size of the feeling seems to spill over the line. The beads are dense and matte, and the edges of the panel are slightly wavy. Panda Landa makes things by instinct and improvisation, and the break in the word has the ease of a decision made on the spot. A white box frame and natural linen surround the beads, and the square measures ten inches.
A clean square for a bedroom, an entry, a kitchen or a home office. The ivory and charcoal fit white walls, pale wood, black metal and gray textiles, and the stacked lettering reads quickly from across a room. Hang it alone, beside a mirror or in a gallery wall of small frames, where its plain statement balances more colorful works.
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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