Mother Earth
Disciplines
Private Collections
Lana Khayat’s work is rooted in a deep reverence for the natural world. Her canvases speak to the presence of Mother Earth not as a distant idea, but as a living, breathing force — one that shapes, guides, and holds. Through thread, pigment, and gesture, she channels the quiet intelligence of soil, roots, petals, and air. Her practice is an offering, a form of listening, and a way of remembering where we come from.
Nature is not a reference in Lana Khayat’s work. It is a collaborator. Her relationship with Mother Earth is personal and continuous, shaped by memory, emotion, and daily observation. She does not paint landscapes. Instead, she translates the pulse of a leaf, the silence of a stone, the breath of the horizon. Her materials reflect this connection: silk threads that echo veins, pigments layered like sediment, and linen that holds it all like soil.
The process is slow, embodied, and intuitive. Stitching becomes a ritual, one that honors cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Each mark is a form of grounding, each thread a reminder that the earth is not separate from us, but within us. Khayat’s work often carries the emotional weight of care, for nature, for memory, for the act of making. There is tenderness in the repetition, and strength in the softness of her materials.
In this body of work, Mother Earth is not idealized. She is layered, complex, and enduring. The surface of each canvas holds traces of the wild, the weathered, the remembered. Khayat does not impose her hand on nature. She follows it. She allows her practice to be shaped by the rhythms of the earth, slow, quiet, and powerful. Her works ask us to look again at what we often forget to see. To feel more deeply. To return.

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