FIBER ART

NET OF MEMORIES PT. 1

The theme in these pieces is remembrance of loved ones. I fondly remember my grandparents, spending a lot of time in their home as a child. My grandfather worked with seaman’s crafts, and the smell of tar from the ropes will always make me homesick. My grandmother also always had a craft project going, knitting or embroidery most of the time, although, most of her time went towards taking care of me, my grandfather and their home. She came from a fisherman’s family, which also inspired the first net. A tar hemp rope, knotted into a net with fishnet knots.

The action of knotting, smelling the tar, and tactile memory of working with rope, is a kind of meditation on the people in my memory.

NET OF MEMORIES PT. 2

As I felt the first net mostly reminded me of my grandfather, I continued working on a more feminine interpretation, the female memories and experiences. I cut strips of fabrics out of womens clothing and old bed linens, hand dyed them, handsew and knotted them all together into a large net. These knots, pearl knots, are the same kind you use to finish a tapestry, in the southern parts of Sweden.

VOLCANOES

Textile sculptures, a meditation in materials.

INSTALLATIONS

CONTAINER

A reaction on a phenomenon in our society that really bothers me. “Container” revolves around the unfair and extreme differences in conditions which people live in but also the most basic interpretation of the word home.

This work started with visiting dwellings under a bridge in Stockholm, Sweden. The people living there had made makeshift homes out of cardboard, pallets, blankets and other fabric scraps.

To build a home, to organize, patch together. I started working with these pieces made of indigo dyed linen fabric.