There seems to be a shift from the tactile towards the visual experience. Digitalization speeds up processes. Visual information seems to be faster than tactile information. What will get priority in our experience of the world ? Weaving is a very slow process, even on a computerized loom.There is a tension between making this slow work and the fast world around me. I weave time.
Panels: Timewarp golden, Penelope, Immigrants and Brainscape
Stitch Your Brain publication about the 10 year empirical study combining statistics, academic articles and personal stories on crafting and it's effects on learning, health and well-being.
The installation of 118 stitched works is a travelling exhibition with the book as a catalogue .
Weaving, taken out of its traditional context is a contemporary artform. Weaving has an intellectual and a manual side, a combination of the material knowledge of hands, imagination and digital technology. The hand is the interface and in this way the weaver is a protagonist of our times, especially in the experience of time itself. Go to: Weeflab , Amsterdam.
