Sensual meeting with the plant Woad – Isatis tinctoria
Woad, or Glastum – Isatis tinctora – this powerful plant, its colour and fragrance in transformation with me “I see plants and their colour and fragrancy surrounded by an emotional atmosphere that I try in different ways to visualize and define. The colours and fragrances from plants are for me dualities of our coexistence in […]
Whose water are you? The colour and communication in nature!
Whose Water are you? The Colour and Communication in nature! Whose Water Are You? / Vems Vatten är du? (2011–ongoing) Whose Water Are You? is a long-term, place-specific research artistic research project initiated by me in 2011. A process investigating water, colour and ecology through biochemical colour processes, scientific analysis, human experience and place specific […]
Infinity, Sense and Reasen – Blue threads in Ocean water
Infinity, Sense and Reason – Blue threads in the Ocean and Other Waters Different sorts of coloured threads are dyed in slow Indigo fermentation. I have then researched how the coloured threads and fibre of blue moved in different sorts of waters of lakes and as well in the ocean. Photography 2015 Exhibited […]
Eco poetry in Fashion The Godess of Ice and Water
I was invited as a VIP designer at the International Symposium and Exhibition on Natural Dyes (ISEND) & World Eco-Fiber and Textile Forum (WEFT)– Toward an Eco Culture. I presented this more of an art collection and my questions was; How much do we need to dye? Can Blue from dyed in a slow organic fermentation process – […]
The Beauty of a Dead Language
THE BEAUTY OF A DEAD LANGUAGE – PHOTOGRAPHY (Alkali bacterium indicireducens sp. blue mould and dead ice) This project ‘The Beauty of a Dead Language’ initiates from my interest in biology and understanding of the molecular process in the creation of indigo, a biological colour. The material, light and my body perform together as part […]
Ageless Water, Eternal Colour – Blue and Sister Spinning the Thread
Ageless water, eternal color – BLUE and sister spinning the thread Ageless water, Eternal colour BLUE – an exhibition, a colour lab and a vision of life as colour and of us humans as part of a world of microbes and water. Sisters spin the thread – in the physical movement we become particles, […]
Artistic research and Performance with Indigo and Woad in Material realism
Researching Indigo and Woad – BLUE and fermentation processes I have Artistically researched Indigo and Woad fermentation processes. This is ongoing research work, started in 2007. I have deeply researched its history and the broad colour spectrum that exists in these processes, that connects the earth and the sea with the sky and beyond […]
“Spinning Time” Österlens Museum Sweden – Fibre Art Sweden
“Learning to adapt to invisible histories requires slowing down and attuning to different visual and temporal registers – and looking for how the past saturates the present”. The blood from pregnant lice – cochineal and other small insects, came from all corners of the world and Madder were cultivated in the open landscape. Red stood […]
“Learn the flower go Light”. Once upon a time in the future. Gibca Extended 2023
“Learn the Flower Go Light” is my part in the exhibition “Once Upon a Time in the Future” at Rum44, part of Gibca Extended 2023 During my installation time, I lived in my tent worked with its space and place and let the words come to me. “Stones touching each other, the sound calling. Mist of small […]
“REEBOT FASHION” Textilmuseet Borås Sweden
Textile Museum in Borås bought two of my works to show in their new permanent sustainability exhibition “REEBOAT FASHION ” which opens Saturday, May 25. “REBOOT FAHION” is about how we can approach a circular textile future with new production methods, and how you as an individual can be involved and influenced! “Everything has its […]