mapping memories

felt, second-hand jumper
120 x 100 cm
2023

Do places hold memories? If so, can textiles enable me to access and hold onto them? These were the questions that led me to Blönduós, a small village in northern Iceland where I stayed as an artist-in-residence.

During the residency, I experimented with different techniques to try to “capture” the landscape and the memories held within it. I worked with locally sourced dyestuff and spent time weaving on the old looms in the attic, using patterns I found there. In the end I found that wool in its rawest form bears the strongest resemblance to the landscape, and I decided to make a piece of felted Icelandic wool, blended with fragments of the traditional lopapeysa, a knitted jumper.

Supported by Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds.
Read more (language: Dutch).

Photos of the felted piece laid out on the ground (top). Combined with photos taken in Blönduós during the residency (bottom).

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I am a textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. Through my work runs a tangible thread spun from questions about materials, patterns, hierarchies, histories and traditions.

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