Return of the Weaver
Installation, Political / Social, Textile, 170x350x70cm
(Maincharacter in the installation - made in digital jacquardweaving technique).
Return of the Weaver is a collection of the knowledge I have gained so far. It started with doubts; What do I know, what can I do? From that point of departure I’ve built, embroidered, painted, and modified—but most of all, I have woven.
The weaving turned out to be a form of ”evidence”, and the evidence of that I actually knew something practical turned into a visual landscape with weaving as main ”language”.
I am the weaver and the title speaks of my return to weaving. My introduction to the craft was in hand weaving at a folkhögskola (in Sweden). I haven’t woven anything since then, until now.
The title is a nod both to the literary genre fantasy and the early video game LOOM. The young hero of the game, a weaver named Bobbin, lives on an island controlled by a weaver’s guild. Bobbin guards a loom, and the loom’s fabric holds the world together.
In front of the digital jacquard weave there is a couple of handmade stools in wood with handwoven cloth woven intuitionally without strong opinions about ”design” . I travelled from the digital computerized world of jacquardweaving back to the hands-on craft world.
Return of the Weaver is a collection of the knowledge I have gained so far. It started with doubts; What do I know, what can I do? From that point of departure I’ve built, embroidered, painted, and modified—but most of all, I have woven.
The weaving turned out to be a form of ”evidence”, and the evidence of that I actually knew something practical turned into a visual landscape with weaving as main ”language”.
I am the weaver and the title speaks of my return to weaving. My introduction to the craft was in hand weaving at a folkhögskola (in Sweden). I haven’t woven anything since then, until now.
The title is a nod both to the literary genre fantasy and the early video game LOOM. The young hero of the game, a weaver named Bobbin, lives on an island controlled by a weaver’s guild. Bobbin guards a loom, and the loom’s fabric holds the world together.
In front of the digital jacquard weave there is a couple of handmade stools in wood with handwoven cloth woven intuitionally without strong opinions about ”design” . I travelled from the digital computerized world of jacquardweaving back to the hands-on craft world.
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