Anatomy of a Bloom
Disciplines
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Lana Khayat’s work is rooted in a deep and evolving relationship with nature. Her series Anatomy of a Bloom reflects a turning point in this journey, a movement from observing the natural world to allowing it to live within the work itself. These paintings are not simply inspired by nature; they are made with its rhythm, its stillness, and its quiet complexity.
The earliest works in this trajectory began as quiet studies of natural forms — petals, leaves, stems, the curve of a branch or the soft collapse of a bloom. What first drew Lana Khayat was not the image of the flower, but its structure. She became fascinated with how nature builds itself, how it grows in patterns, how it decays with grace. Her process began to mirror this rhythm, moving slowly, in layers, allowing each work to unfold like something alive.
Over time, the relationship deepened. Nature was no longer just a reference, it became an active presence in the studio. Threads stitched across linen like veins or roots. Pigments followed the logic of soil and light. Linen itself became the field, the ground where gesture and memory could meet. The works in Anatomy of a Bloom are not botanical illustrations. They are intimate landscapes, places where the anatomy of feeling meets the structure of the organic.
This shift, from looking at nature to embodying it, marks a quiet transformation in Khayat’s practice. Nature is no longer on the outside. It is embedded in the process, in the palette, in the breath of each piece. Anatomy of a Bloom is a reflection of that ongoing dialogue. A space where form, memory, and the natural world converge, not to be explained, but to be felt.
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