Methana

Artist Anna Pakosz confronts creative block with blindfolded needlework, stitching dialogues with nature in Greece

Over a month spent in Methana in Greece, London-based Hungarian artist Anna Pakosz entered a daily ritual of meditative craft, experimenting with intuition and touch to overcome a creative block that hindered her painting practice. Undertaking a large-scale needlework project, entirely blindfolded, she let her hands guide needle and thread across canvas, creating without a clear vision of the outcome – exhibiting the final embroidery in 2023 at DOXA Project Space in Budapest.

Embracing chaos and uncertainty, surrounded by nature, Pakosz invited her friend Viktoria Popper to document the ritual. Sharing the footage with Pakosz’s partner and Kinopravda director

Danila Kostil, this close observation of her experimental practice was transformed into short art film Methana.

Liberated by the rawness and vulnerability of working blindfolded, Pakosz finds clarity by surrendering control and withholding expectations. In a dialogue with nature and shaped by her environment, the threads become entwined with the film itself, as Pakosz’s practice and Kostil’s directorial vision merge.