French impressionist Edgar Degas once said: "art is not what you see, but what you make others see." In the case of Mexican artist Victoria Villasana, her now renowned style of colorful interventions started off as an exploration, a spark that led her to try out the use of yarn as a form of expression.
She started creating patterns, geometric figures, bright colors. She began to embroider black and white newspaper pictures, famous portraits of influential and historic figures. She took her yarn to the streets and created murals across London, the city she called home for more than a decade. She didn't overthink, she just channeled it all, an exercise in letting lose something that laid dormant inside of her, something she couldn't quite put into words.
