diana yevtukh 'heals' scarred trees with intricate embroidered artworks

on artist and embroider diana yevtukh’s contemplative and long walks through nature, she began to think about the often overlooked empty spaces in the bark of the trees, which she noticed every day. those occasional spots, where the trunk is left bare, are formed from fallen bark that resulted from its growth process, insect damage, or disease. yevtukh started thinking about these spots as ‘scars’, and found these voids to be a place of emptiness within which to make an artistic statement. ‘I felt strongly that this gap on the trunk has to be filled with something,’ she says. ‘I started to reminisce a gaze, and it felt like if it was coming from the soul of the tree.’

remedying the wounded heart of nature

with the arrival of spring, yevtukh began thinking about giving life back to these forgotten spaces through her embroidered artwork. carefully stitching colorful blooms, floral formations, human eyes and hands, the artist canvassed the empty areas in the trees with vibrant and intricately-formed compositions. ‘kids and adults, animals and plants, we all are part of the nature in my understanding’, yevtukh continues, ‘the never-ending suffering wounds the heart and the soul of the nature. but our superpower, as humans, is that we can heal and cherish the life around us. this embroidery is a call to treat the living with love, and not cruelty, to heal the wounds and cease the violence.’

remedying the wounded heart of nature (detail) 

life is breaking out of the mysterious hideaways

life is breaking out of the mysterious hideaways (detail)

stitch by stitch cracked and forgotten wall blossoms with a new life

stitch by stitch cracked and forgotten wall blossoms with a new life

multitudes of life hidden in the plain sight

multitudes of life hidden in the plain sight (detail)