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Bhoomika Prasad
Textiles MFA

Parsons School of Design

Graduates: 2025

Specialisms: Textiles / Textiles - Weave / Textiles - Print/Embroidery

My location: New York, United States

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Parsons School of Design

Bhoomika Prasad

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First Name: Bhoomika

Last Name: Prasad

University / College: Parsons School of Design

Course / Program: Textiles MFA

Graduates: 2025

Specialisms: Textiles / Textiles - Weave / Textiles - Print/Embroidery

My Location: New York, United States

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About

Drawing inspiration from nature's patterns, mythological narratives, and literary worlds, I use weaving and embroidery as my primary techniques. These approaches allow me to investigate materials on my loom and give me experimental freedom. Working with the constraints of these materials brings meaning to my practice and fosters creative growth, resulting in simultaneously structured and organic textiles. In my work, I let the material live as it wants to; I simply provide it with a new means to exist.The core of my work lies in a multisensory approach that extends beyond the visual. I create vibrant, interactive pieces that invite tactile engagement with the textiles. These textiles are meant to be touched, moved through, and experienced dimensionally. This tactile dialogue between viewer and material reveals textiles' unique capacity to communicate complex ideas through direct sensory experience.I work with large-scale projects, primarily using copper wire and optic-fibers. Each material brings its own story to my practice, which leads to extensive research and testing of its limits and capabilities. I gravitate toward large-scale works because they allow me to engulf and absorb my viewers; as a short person, this reflects how I see the world, and presents my perspective.

woven identity

Specialisms:

Textiles Textiles - Weave

"The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality" - Carl Jung Multifaceted and ever-evolving, the concept of self captivates me as a lived, shifting experience. Inspired by Jung's idea of self as "completest expression of individuality," my work embraces our contradictions: light and shadow, familiar and mysterious, comforting and uncomfortable. These dualities coexist, forming constantly fluctuating wholeness. Through woven sculptures and embroidered mazes, I translate this layered journey into tactile form. Each piece reflects life phases that shaped me, family's grounding influence, outside world's challenges and lessons, quiet introspection of memory and imagination. The totality of self is coincidental oppositorum, bright and dark, yet neither. My practice invites viewers to explore their own evolving identities, encouraging connection through shared pursuit of self-understanding, embracing differentiation and integration of our multiple components and personalities.