Steve Medwin
Passages Triptych, 2026
Embroidery thread 11.5 x 32 x 1.5 inches
This triptych follows shifting pathways through tension, complexity, and convergence. Dense embroidered lines weave through dark constraining forms before gradually opening into a calmer, more unified flow, suggesting journeys shaped by uncertainty, persistence, and connection.
Steve Medwin
Passages #1: Laminar Flow, 2026
Polyester embroidery thread 15 x 15 inches
Multiple paths enter a narrow channel and are forced into close alignment before dispersing again. The structure compresses movement, but does not stop it—each line maintains its direction, even as it adapts to the constraint.
Steve Medwin
Passages #2: Merging Flow – Reunion, 2026
Polyester embroidery thread 15 x 15 inches
Separated paths diverge, cross, and recombine within a shifting structure before emerging together again. The journey is less direct, shaped by turns and intersections, but ultimately resolves in a shared direction.
Steve Medwin
Passage #3: Turbulent Flow, 2026
Polyester embroidery thread 15 x 15 inches
One path moves with clarity from entry to exit, while others wander, loop, and struggle to find continuity. Not all passages resolve in the same way—some arrive, some falter, and some remain unfinished.
Steve Medwin
Organic Labyrinth #2: Choices, 2025
polyester embroidery thread te 15 x 15 inches
This work introduces multiple paths and milestones, emphasizing decision-making and personal agency. Each route offers a different sequence of experiences, suggesting that meaning is shaped not by a single correct path, but by the choices made along the way. The piece reflects the complexity of navigating life where many valid directions coexist.
Steve Medwin
Organic Labyrinth #1: Seeking, 2025
polyester embroidery thread 15 x 15 inches
This work reflects the experience of searching for direction without certainty of outcome. A single path moves deliberately yet ambiguously toward a focal point, suggesting persistence, curiosity, and the human need to orient oneself even when the destination is unclear. The work invites viewers to consider seeking as a meaningful act in itself, rather than merely a prelude to arrival.
Steve Medwin
No Victor, 2026
Machine embroidery and 3D printed elements (polyester thread, PETG) 15 x 15 inches
This work explores conflict as an ongoing system rather than a struggle toward resolution. Rigid, straight forms and fluid, curved lines coexist under opposing constraints, repeatedly interrupting one another without hierarchy or outcome. The work resists focal points and connections, reflecting a state of sustained tension in which difference persists without dominance or reconciliation.
Steve Medwin
The Journey, 2026
Polyester embroidery thread 16x20x3 inches
The Journey is a suspended landscape of digitally embroidered ecosystems that invites viewers to navigate a journey through interconnected environments.
Steve Medwin
Thread Sketch #1, 2026
Polyester embroidery thread 15.2 × 15.2 × 1.25 inches
Thread Sketch #1 explores the relationship between flowing black pathways and independent points of color, allowing connections and meanings to emerge without prescribing a single path.
Steve Medwin
Trajectories, 2026
Polyester embroidery thread and 3D printed PETG 12x36x2 inches
Trajectories uses freestanding digital embroidery and 3D-printed forms to explore paths that begin together but gradually diverge, intersect, and rise from the surface as they move independently through space.
