Jeanette Schäring
Interdisciplinary Textile Artist
Working with Ecology
About
I am intrigued by the eco-poetic sensory state of Colour entanglement that fluctuates between light, plants, fragrance, sensuality, human and more-than-human, microbial life – colour processes, fibres, water and our collective memory, extended mind, embodiment, and how we are all intertwined in the ecosphere. I am interested in how we will consume colour in the future and for care and empathy. Interdisciplinary is essential for the creation of imagination, ecological wisdom and change and so are experimentalism, poetry, morphology and phenomenology, all towards biodiversity and interconnectedness of life.
Sensory Colour systems integrate experiences of our existential encounter with the world, bringing us the truth and the magic of the breath and the wilderness of our hearts.
News
The colours from plants can enhance our sensory perception, and deepen our psyche of intricacy, substance, beauty and fragility. The light gives changeabilities in the colours, reminding us of nature’s time, schedules and the dynamics of life in nature.
My work
In my artistic research work, which is an in-depth research about plants, colour and water. I engage with a sensually interconnected eco-poetic methodology that analyses the intricate interplay between the human and the more-than-human world, particularly focusing on elements such as light, plants, colour, fibre, water, and microbial life, which is an approach that delves into the Colour sensory aspects of this entanglement. The focal point of my artistic endeavours centres on the eco-philosophical and aesthetic exploration of Colour and material, biology and the intricate dynamics of our delicate ecosystem, which include the colonial colour and textile history with an ecological understanding of our future for change. I am working with the colour embodiment and and life-strengthen the function of the body, and increase our resilience to be present with the earth.
