Blue – Woad – Color from plants as Intelligence in Art and Science collaboration

WOAD Art and Science

💙 Blue – Color from plants as Intelligence in Art and Science collaboration Woad, Vejde (Isatis tinctoria) is not just a pigment—it reveals, transforms, remembers—an ancient medicinal plant, once sacred, giving blue and carrying a long history. In an art and science collaboration with Professor Jonas Bergquist at Uppsala University, I explored the plant Woad […]

Allotropy and some other older work

Allotropy

More information is coming   Material: silk fermented in the natural dye for many months, vax, thin metal thread and silk embroideries.  

The Sky is not Blue

Installation. Swedish raw linnen dyed in organic woad and Indigo. On the floor wool dip-dyed in organic slow indigo and woad vat.

I am intrigued by fibres and their properties and how they absorb Colour and Light For this work, I have used Swedish raw linen and dyed it with an organic fermentation process to dye blue.  The work has expanded and in the installation in Ronneby Kulturcentrum, I had over 200 of these blue spinning works. […]

Who am I to define Consciousness

Who am I to define Consciousness Nervcell Installation

Artistic research work 2014 – ongoing  I am using my own ¨MRA scan in this work for digital printing and projecting Nerve cells are dyed with Woad (Isatis tinctoria) Some of this work has been done in collaboration with Professor Jonas Bergquist Uppsala Univ. and sound   Exhibited for example at: Part of it at the […]

HOST (biology)

Artist MRA Scan, digital printing on Silk. Intruder

Host (biology) It’s a work where I have used my own MRA scan for digital printing on silk. This work has taken many forms! Still in work and progress Sometimes there is a relationship between two organisms of different species in which one is a parasite and the other is a host.  ‘I am intrigued by […]

Colour Appetite Matters and Colour Me Naturally.

Performance and comunication about plant culture, food and its link to textile and health. Gallery 54 Gothenburg Sweden

 Performance Fläcken på duken (“The stain on the cloth”) Colour Appetite Matters and Colour Me Naturally.     Colour from plants is deeply intertwined with human life and culture, and the colour vibrates with our senses perceptions and our well-being. Plants, herbs, fruits and other sources of food, give colour both as frequencies in the […]

“The Sacred Room of Blue and Unknown Water” Sollentuna

Welcome to the exhibition “The Sacred Room of Blue and Unknown Water” Edsvik, Stallbacken, Sollentuna Opening Saturday 9 mars klockan 13.00 Edsvik, Stallbacken Kultur  Plants have the ability to enhance our sensory perception and deepen our understanding of complexity, substance, beauty and fragility through its colour and fibers. This is an Eco-Poetic exhibition around PLANTS […]

Matter in Motion, State of Matter – colour and Water – Whose Water are you?

MATTER IN MOTION, STATE OF MATTER – COLOUR AND WATER – VEMS VATTEN ÄR DU? “Our bodies are largely composed of living organisms on which our lives depend; micro and macro; life as an open flow where it is impossible to separate individual parts. As humans and more than humans and bodies, we interact in an […]

Performance and Researching fibre and its relationship

Communication between the element, fibre and body movement. conciseness and interconnectedness.. Raises awareness to time and space before me

Researching plants and their fibre and our relationships and transformation to a Symbiotic life Ongoing work in progress 2022 — communication in-between time and space before me, communication, braiding and the making of new words and narratives Some of the photos are printed and have been shown in exhibition in Sweden at Gallery 54, Gothenburg 2022,  Textile Museum Borås, 2022, Gibca […]

Colour is the force of Matter

Colour is the force of Matter. Horsehair

   I repeated myself in fascination to see how the same moment in eternity can build forms and expressions of the universe’s unique colour that creates within these thousands of horsehair moving in the air. Thousands of Horsehairs I have threaded through a very old cotton handmade sheet, and I have made a small knot […]