Research into archeological traces of weaving in Norway and Egypt. The two projects fused into the making of several pieces. The research into ancient Egyptian textiles at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is combined with a study of Scandinavian weaving fragments during an artist’s residency in Norway. The resulting pieces are an entanglement of the ancient Egyptian ritual of shrouding the dead and the discovery at archeological digs of two rows of evenly shaped stones. Weaving stones signified the place where once a loom stood.
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Stitch Your Brain
Stitch Your Brain study+book+travelling collection
The empirical study links 118 works of the Amsterdam Brain Collection to articles, statistics and personal stories about the effects of creative making on learning, health and well-being.
Richly illustrated book_publisher JapSam _ graphic design by award winning Studio JoostGrootens
Supported by Creative Industries, Stichting Stokroos, DVvV, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
The intelligence of the hand #colour#texture#Iceland
Research into the perception of colour #Weeflab
Two warps for my second residency at Textílmiðstöð - fine linnen and pre-mordanted wool. No design, no failures, just new, unexpected forms.
Slow process, play and serendipity. Shibori weaving + Glit technique_Icelandic wool + dusty, vintage linnen_finely woven traditional pattern + shimmering, sagging threads.
The hand is the interface, the weaver is the protagonist of our time, especially in the experience of time itself.
