PAN

A toy gun from another era — the kind that made noise but never hurt anyone. Pink fabric, red thread, a comic-book bang frozen mid-air. The weapon is softened, ribboned, almost tender.
PAN. The French onomatopoeia for a gunshot — borrowed from childhood, from cartoons, from a time when danger was still make-believe. Here it becomes something else: a statement, a punctuation mark, a small act of defiance dressed in colour.
This piece continues an ongoing inquiry into the words and objects that shaped us before we had the language to question them — and what happens when we embroider them back, slowly, with full intention.

Hand-drawn and hand-embroidered illustration and typography.
Embroidery, 21 × 38cm — DMC threads
2026