LINKS: www.lizkueneke.com
@liz.kueneke

Description of Work:

This artwork honors Posidonia oceanica, an endangered seagrass vital to Ibiza, through traditional Spanish religious iconography. Hand-embroidered on a vintage pañuelo with gold halos, it reflects on loss, resilience, and Ibiza’s fading embroidery tradition. Using threads from an 85-year-old local woman, it fuses ecological and cultural heritage. The Latin phrase Spiritus Maris in Posidonia imbues it with a reverence, highlighting the seagrass’s sacred role and the urgency of its protection.

Since 2004, Liz has been using hand-embroidery as a tool for contemporary art. In recent years her work has focused more and more on water… both the importance of the earth’s bodies of water as well as the danger they are in environmentally. Born in Chicago, she received a dual degree in Fine Arts and French Literature in 1998 from Georgetown University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University (Los Angeles). She has lived in Spain since 2003, and in Ibiza since 2009.