I look for meaning in processes without knowing the end result and for significance embedded within the materials that I work with. My practice expands to botanical dyeing, different techniques of fabric making, painting, drawing, ceramics. My installations are sorts of ecosystems where natural materials, processes and objects come together at different stages of interventions: roots, organic matter, unspun yarn, paintings, woven pieces, ceramics, and raw, dyed or felted wool.

 

Over the past year, I have researched local sources for wool, using waste from farmers and learning how to wash, card, spin and felt. This is a way of connecting to soil and staying in a circle with materials and landscape. What changes if I spin my own thread? What stories will these threads tell about landscapes, humans and other-than-humans, and their knowledge? 

 

I see the making of colours as a relational medium that carries histories and narratives. Foraging, gardening and dyeing processes mean loving and bonding, they are a way of “making home”, relating again and again to a place and its multiple beings throughout time. Being aware that colourfast botanical pigments are only a few and well known, I am interested in working with different kinds of landscapes.