Where
memory
becomes
surface.
Embroidered fine art.
Each work begins in feeling —
not in documentation.
BANGKOK — EST. 2022
"Not a record of what was seen —
a reconstruction of what remains."
Ray & Nia works with industrial embroidery machines to create one-of-one artworks. Each piece begins from a feeling, passes through manual digitizing, and emerges in layers of thread that shift under light.
Washington Series
The first body of work
01
Spokane
QUIET MEMORY
A landscape in still air. The space opens gradually, with subtle transitions between ground, trees, and sky. The scene holds a calm, almost suspended quality. Rendered through soft layering and restrained movement.
Approx. 620,000 stitches · One of One
02
Mount Rainier
DISTANT MEMORY
A landscape held at a distance. The mountain sits beyond layers of terrain, softened by space and atmosphere. Detail recedes, leaving a quiet sense of scale. Translated through gradual layering and restrained contrast.
Approx. 620,000 stitches · One of One
03
Pike Place
RECALLED
A place remembered through detail. Architecture and movement are layered together, forming a textured surface that holds both structure and activity. The scene feels lived-in, but softened by memory. Built through repeated, hand-digitized variation.
Approx. 620,000 stitches · One of One
Design note: Each location exists in multiple emotional states
ONE PLACE. DIFFERENT STATES OF MEMORY.
The red boat as held memory. Then afterimage. Then distilled into something that holds more feeling than fact.
THE RED BOAT — HELD MEMORY
THE RED BOAT — AFTERIMAGE
FROM WALL TO TABLE
The same language,
carried into everyday life.
The textile collection is not a product line extended from the artwork. It is the same practice — the same attention to stitch, light, and surface — expressed in objects designed to be used.
THE PROCESS
From feeling
to thread.
The process is never mechanical.
Even when the machine runs, every decision before it — and some within it — is made by hand.
I
Memory & feeling
Each work begins not with a photograph but with a feeling — the emotional residue of a place after time has worked on it. What remains is not what was seen but what stayed.
II
Image development
The feeling is developed into an image — not a documentation of reality, but a reconstruction shaped by time, emotion, and the decisions made in the studio.
III
Manual digitizing
Each image is manually digitized — a labour-intensive translation that determines how thread will behave: its direction, density, and tension. Every decision here shapes the final surface.
IV
Layered embroidery
Industrial machines run — but are guided by hand through hundreds of thousands of stitches. Tension, repetition, and variation accumulate into a surface that reveals itself differently under different light.
ABOUT THE STUDIO
Bangkok-based.
Process-driven.
Ray & Nia repurposes industrial embroidery — a medium built for mass production — to create works that can only exist once. The studio operates between fine art and textile practice, finding in both the same underlying language: texture, memory, and the surface that holds them.
Designed in dreams.
Digitized by hand.
Delicately crafted with passion.
