If you still haven’t fallen in love with the magical world of embroidery, Rana Balca will help you change your ways in the blink of an eye. She’s exploring the magnetic power that hides behind our eyes through her embroidery hoops, which perfectly capture the magic of the human gaze.
Balca is an embroidery artist from Istanbul, Turkey, with a background in fashion design. She graduated from the Department of Fashion and Textile Design at Yeditepe University in 2016 and decided to turn her attention to a craft that’s often been dismissed as old-fashioned by many of her peers – the magical world of embroidery.
Like most embroidery artists, Balca kicked things off by stitching together pretty flowers, but a different subject eventually caught her eye. She kicked off a new era of her journey as an embroidery artist when she decided to focus on stitching together human eyes, using her skills with needle and thread to capture the magnetic power of our gaze.
They say that “eyes are windows to the soul,” and Balca’s body of work proves there’s truth to these words. She mastered the art of capturing the diverse beauty of the human gaze, and her embroidery hoops are truly a sight for sore eyes.
