Dreams in Transition
Dreams in Transition is a reflection and response focused on the dilemmas young immigrant women face in a cultural transition to a new society. The…
Category: Textile Design
The Rest Will Be Familiar To You
A knitted fabric is not unlike a body. I make knitted situations, material poems. I think of the body engaging in craft and how it…
”RÅ – RAW”
Creatures are created to animate the forest, because our anthropocentric worldview has greater respect for a human figure that expresses emotions, than for the trees…
The Icelandic Foreign Legion
The Icelandic Foreign Legion started as a conceptual project. First thoughts included ideas about what unites a non-uniform group of foreigners in a country like…
Sun-powered Textiles
Photo by Linda Lehtovirta and Emilia Pennanen, Aalto University, Copyright, (2021) The Sun-powered Textiles project combined expertise from the Department of Applied Physics and the…
The Everyday Performing Textiles
Living as a human being in the 21st century is a more or less constant three-dimensional textile experience. Textiles have continuous proximity to our bodies…
The Final Cut
My degree project explores the possibilities of shaping space with lightweight textile-based elements. The focus is on transforming surface geometries into 3D patterns, using laser…
Within Cells Intertwined
Technology has already taken humans to uncharted territory. Changes and possibilities within regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, and cell culture are evolving beyond our understanding. Within…
Þráðhyggja
Deconstruction The term is obsolete Distrust Empty words “sustainability” “eco-friendly” “reuse” I take them apart Analyze them Clothes become pieces Pieces become threads Threads become…what?…
Höft
The thoughts want out, but I am unable to express them. Stuck inside and can’t find their way. Try to sneak out but rush…
