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Lana Khayat’s work is rooted in repetition, care, and deep material engagement. Her practice unfolds slowly, shaped by long studio hours and a tactile relationship with thread, silk, and linen. Each piece reflects not only what is made, but how it is made, through patience, presence, and the quiet rigor of process.
For Lana Khayat, the canvas is not a place to arrive at an image. It is a field for questioning, wandering, undoing. It is where she plays, struggles, stitches, erases, and begins again. In her work, process is not preparation. It is presence. The final result is not about polish or control, but about truth, the truth of having felt something deeply and made it visible through gesture, thread, and time.
To leave the process exposed is an act of refusal. It resists the expectation that art must be resolved, perfected, framed neatly into meaning. Khayat allows the underlayers to breathe, the seams to show. Thread becomes a voice, sometimes fragile, sometimes insistent. It holds things together, but it also disrupts. In her hands, it becomes a form of rebellion. Against silence. Against erasure. Against the idea that beauty must always be contained.
There is freedom in this vulnerability. Freedom in letting the process stay open, unfinished, human. Khayat’s work invites us to rethink how we define completion. To see not the product, but the practice. Not the outcome, but the becoming. In this space, thread is not just a material. It is a line between the visible and the felt, between control and release, resistance and grace.
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