Textile and Colour as a sensual and poetic Resilience.

Colour and fibre from plants are deeply intertwined with human life and culture and colour vibrates with our perceptions and senses and our well-being, with our longing for a sense of place and connection.

The project is an artistic research into the textile cultural history, plants and their colour and the river Viskan, the myths and people with the place and time in Borås and the Sjuhäradsbygden, but expanding to Gothenburg and the world as people traveled extensive. (The time is mainly from 1400s till middle of 1900s).

I am deeply emerging in to the arkivs and my research bringing me to delve in to exiting plants, organism and tradings that I didn’t even thought had existed in the place of Borås and Sjuhäradsbygden from the 1500s to the middle of 1900s when synthetical oil based aniline colour took over. The stories of other knowledge that has come to surface is very exiting.

I am working with reconnecting the sensual contact with the elements and the living textile material that covers our earth and our collective memory of colour and fibres. Colours from plants are deeply interwoven with human life, culture and textiles. 

“Floating plants and underwater forest, some with roots into the underworld. I lick the humidity and the fragrance from the bog myrtle of my skin, we share a secret. Sweet gale, lingonberry, blueberry and white anemone. Phragmites australis some and different sort of grass, some plants are more talkative than others”. Thank you!  (Part of this text used in the exhibition Luotaamaton Alue -The Unsurveyed area, Raumo, Finland 2020 and 2023)

I was born in Borås, with many of my ancestors of my mothers and grandmothers mother working within Textile. 

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2023 Supported by T G Wärenstam and Estrid Ericsson