Stitching with no needle 1

Cross stitch ink drawing on paper

What I'm looking at

1. Huts. Always huts.

2. What I wish was huge forget-me-nots.

3. Sashiko/boro pieces.

4. Andrea Zittel's living units.

The year of Lupins

I have a distinct feeling they are growing more than ever this summer.

LGW inspirations of late

New year, new projects. 

Researching and collecting material for another follow-up to The Last Girl in the Woods, a project that comes into its third year this year. There's just so much more to do.

First of all came the bark boats, developing into an installation, later distilled in the pages of a zine.

Now, I'm looking forward to approaching LGW through working with costume, garments and such.

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Images:

1. Diapositive taken by my grandmother

2. Twig weaving

3. Versailles dress

4. Cave Collective: Kelp Triple Layer Wraparound

5. Sashiko stitching

6. Detail from my exam project

7. Forged iron crosses from Ekshärad, Värmland

8. 17th century Greek bed panel

9. Found on Pinterest

10. Kinfolk

11. Liv Ullman in Nybyggarna/The New Land (1972)

12. Buenaventura Marco

Tales from the Woods

A couple of weeks ago, I got involved in a new project. It's called "Tales from the Woods" - and what could suit me better?

“Tales from the woods” is a unique artist-in-residence project that gives you the opportunity of following the lives of five young artists (called The Art Flaneurs). Each Art Flaneur is a representative of a partner organisation from Estonia (Creative Center Carnation), Finland (Kronomagasinet), Sweden (ARNA and Not Quite) or Norway (Rogaland Art Center- L/R). During the project all of them will visit one of the partner organisations to experience a short term artist-in-residence programme. They will also work on a joined project that will be introduced to the public in April 2014 when all of them meet at a symposium in Tartu.

In addition, a small research is made about the affect of arist-in-residence projects to the local communities. All of the partner organisations are located more or less in smaller cities or some even in the real woods. The project is coordinated by Creative Center Carnation from Estonia.

So, in a few months time, I will be headed to my residency at Lukkeskåra/Rådlausjuvet in southern Norway. And then to Estonia! But my research starts now - I will share the process here on my blog.

Follow our project here, or through Facebook.

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The photos above are from my latest edition of my exam work installation "The Last Girl in the Woods". Staged in our barn in August.

Her again

There she goes again, the Last Girl in the Woods. A character I originally made up to be a more outrageous version of myself. But lately, she has been growing up to be her own person. She also goes by the name the Local Patriot. (Back then, it was about embroidery and bark boats.) I define her by words such as proud, exuberant and obstinate, and seeing the world through her eyes and hands renders everything slightly more illuminated and significant. 

I made her a room, a zine, and even a small fleet! Next up I think there will be clothing. The Last Girl in the Woods is the driving force behind most of my creative work nowadays.

The photos of the Pine Cone Bag above are taken by Elisabeth. The lupin photo is taken by my mum in 1982 (the year of the mittens) ♥