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LAILA GRAINAWI

interdisciplinary artist
  • about
  • shop
  • textiles
    • surface filling paintings
    • ply away home - knitwear fall collection
    • crystal expanse - knitwear winter collection
    • quilts
  • photography
    • photography I
    • photography II
  • client work
    • Stop Motions for Cocktail Courier
    • Cardigan Design for Anthropologie
    • Displays for West Elm
  • blog

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new work
about 12 months ago
summer air / summer skin
about a year ago
momentum
about a year ago
a series of stitchings
about a year ago
from the studio: branding + design
about 2 years ago

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dear friends, i love you all but i’m unplugging from social media for a month. being bored is essential for the creative process and i’ve been feeling this way for a long time. as much as i love taking photos and sharing i’m losing my own sense of self by being absorbed in phone-based, internet-based nonsense. i’ll be around in real life instead! see ya 👋🏽
dear friends, i love you all but i’m unplugging from social media for a month. being bored is essential for the creative process and i’ve been feeling this way for a long time. as much as i love taking photos and sharing i’m losing my own sense of self by being absorbed in phone-based, internet-based nonsense. i’ll be around in real life instead! see ya 👋🏽
a beautiful day exploring with my mister yesterday. brunch, antiques, and hikes... a day full of wonderful.
a beautiful day exploring with my mister yesterday. brunch, antiques, and hikes... a day full of wonderful.
our eggplants are late bloomers 🌸 let's go little buddies
our eggplants are late bloomers 🌸 let's go little buddies
elotes game on point / also... some thoughts on social media: i go to a lot of restaurants. i take a fair amt of photos (partly bc my memory is terrible and i want to remember what i had and when, partly to share). i often forget or don't care to share and post them. because instagram feels like a dumb popularity contest (i went there, did you? kind of vibes) and what about the rest of your life that happens that isn't hashtag instagram worthy?? can it not still be beautiful? is it more beautiful because you didn't post a photo and it's a private fleeting memory? or is beautiful because you captured that moment in time and when you're wasting time on your phone you look back at it, and relive it 1000x more than the stored memories of our minds. we don't scroll through them like a timeline. are we losing our stored memories because we rely on digital ones to preserve them for us??? ...just some early morning thoughts while i look at the thousands of photos on my phone i thought were not quite composed, or shot perfect enough to share. this one- gary's phone in the corner. a slight spatter of water on the bar. isn't it more important that we have a date night ritual that makes us both happy than 5 perfect photos of the food we ate? but if you didn't document it- did it even happen? ;) quandaries of life in the digital age!
elotes game on point / also... some thoughts on social media: i go to a lot of restaurants. i take a fair amt of photos (partly bc my memory is terrible and i want to remember what i had and when, partly to share). i often forget or don't care to share and post them. because instagram feels like a dumb popularity contest (i went there, did you? kind of vibes) and what about the rest of your life that happens that isn't hashtag instagram worthy?? can it not still be beautiful? is it more beautiful because you didn't post a photo and it's a private fleeting memory? or is beautiful because you captured that moment in time and when you're wasting time on your phone you look back at it, and relive it 1000x more than the stored memories of our minds. we don't scroll through them like a timeline. are we losing our stored memories because we rely on digital ones to preserve them for us??? ...just some early morning thoughts while i look at the thousands of photos on my phone i thought were not quite composed, or shot perfect enough to share. this one- gary's phone in the corner. a slight spatter of water on the bar. isn't it more important that we have a date night ritual that makes us both happy than 5 perfect photos of the food we ate? but if you didn't document it- did it even happen? ;) quandaries of life in the digital age!
eating homemade pizza outside in our roof garden... lots to be grateful for... ❤️ (but mostly cheese, 🙏🏽)
eating homemade pizza outside in our roof garden... lots to be grateful for... ❤️ (but mostly cheese, 🙏🏽)
quiet coffee moment at cafe mj
quiet coffee moment at cafe mj
really delicious drinks, really gorgeous space.
really delicious drinks, really gorgeous space.
when your bff just GETS you. happiness is a well made bowl (and a book about it)! thanks ever so much @iamnotaphotographr 👌🏽
when your bff just GETS you. happiness is a well made bowl (and a book about it)! thanks ever so much @iamnotaphotographr 👌🏽
when you're just casually walking around the sidewalks and spot this epic door on a gate. wonder what's inside?
when you're just casually walking around the sidewalks and spot this epic door on a gate. wonder what's inside?
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  • laila grainawi
    in the middle of hand lettering skillshare lecture and bf says "aren't you already a pro?" #backwardscursive? #yeahiguessso! #alwayslearning
    about 3 years ago

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