Parvati is a magnificent embroidery on linen inspired by an eighteenth-century screen covered with wallpaper, displaying a decoration of branches and birds in subtle, luminous colours. The lineage is pleasingly layered — paper, screen, now stitch — and embroidery suits the subject best of all: branches gain relief, birds gain body, and the linen ground plays the air between them. It is also available as a wallpaper, completing the circle.
