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About the Artist:
In Flow, Cecilia Lusven builds motion out of remnants. Scrap leather and bicycle inner tube—materials made for friction, wear, and mileage—are cut into narrow segments and hand stitched onto canvas until they become a concentrated current. The tondo format intensifies the sensation: everything turns, gathers, releases. What could read as pattern from afar becomes, up close, a field of individual decisions—each strip placed at a slight angle, each overlap creating a new shadow line.
The palette stays within blacks, but the surface is anything but flat. Leather grain, rubber matte, and occasional metallic sheen catch light in different ways, so the work changes as you move—like water, like wind, like a system you can feel but can’t hold still. The spiral isn’t purely decorative; it functions like a map of momentum: the push and pull between control and surrender, order and turbulence. Flow ultimately asks the viewer to slow down and look longer—until repetition becomes rhythm, and the discarded becomes charged with new life.