Claudia Apaid, a Haitian artist whose designs are inspired by her works of service, spirituality and nature, interweaves a variety of mixed media creations in handmade embroideries and metal works, often alongside artisans from around the globe.
Apaid uses hand-stitched embroidery and techniques with sequins, crystals, glass beads, precious stones and metal to create her unique pieces.
Described as vibrational pieces, her works of art are charged with Reiki energy while handcrafted with precise attention to detail. Complex patterns and cellular structures, both of which represent the universe, are weaved in a way creating a personal connection to all matter. With a focus of the repetitions and patterns found in nature and the spiritual worlds, Apaid explores and documents the very nature of life itself and our relationship with it.
Artist Statement
There is an unseen force that fuels all creation and its process. It connects us to the universe in all of its immensity. Its vibration incites and fuels our being. This activated life force energy creates a complex design which serves both, as a harness to the dwelling place of the self and as a doorway to the hidden fields that connect us to the all.
My creations are an exploration of this space, a metaphor of how the macro and the micro come whole together so preciously and cohesively into a tapestry of wholeness.