Jeanette Schäring

Jeanette Schäring

Interdisciplinary Textile Artist

Working with Ecology

Plant research and communication with plants and its possibilities and use, during my Artist in Residency at Textile Museum in Borås, Sweden

About

I am intrigued by the eco-poetic sensory state of Colour entanglement that fluctuates between light, plants, fragrance, water, sensuality, human and more-than-human, microbial life – colour processes, fibres and our collective memory, extended mind and how we are all intertwined in the ecosphere. 

I work with artistic research about botanical resources as an artistic material and not as a resource. In my work, I investigate and delve into depth around plants, water, methods, colonisation and rights related to holistic, medical, scientific and ancient knowledge. I try to understand complex processes beyond our current thinking, where I examine plants, and colours and how they communicate with us in a somatic and intelligent way. Water is a very important part in this work.

I delve into the plants, their medicinal properties and complex slow fermentation processes for colour, food, and fibre to approach a world of complexity. It is for me an intimate feedback to the ecological heritage, the rituals, the intricacies of cultivation, creating methods, colour, food and textiles, associations with care and healing. I rely on microorganisms, the weather, animals, and water and focus on human and non-human interconnections to bring out complex processes, which can reveal stories, with which to tell new stories for an ecological future. 

Sensory and somatic Colour systems integrate experiences of our existential encounter with the world, bringing us the truth and the magic of the breath and the wilderness of our hearts.

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The colours from plants can enhance our sensory perception, and deepen our psyche of intricacy, substance, beauty and fragility. The light gives us the prismatic shift of the colour blue in the ocean reminding us of nature’s time, schedules, the dynamics and interconnections of all life.

My work

In my artistic research work, which is an in-depth research about plants, colour and water. I engage with a sensually interconnected eco-poetic methodology that analyses the intricate interplay between the human and the more-than-human world, particularly focusing on elements such as light, plants, colour, fibre, water, and microbial life, which is an approach that delves into the Colour sensory aspects of this entanglement. The focal point of my artistic endeavours centres on the eco-philosophical and aesthetic exploration of Colour and material, biology and the intricate dynamics of our delicate ecosystem, which include the colonial colour and textile history with an ecological understanding of our future for change. I am working with the colour embodiment and and strengthen the function of the body, and increase our resilience to be present with the earth. m