Recent works

Monument (2012)

I´m sorry that so much time has elapsed since my latest post! Well, this is a slow blog, but... I do want to post more often.

I here show a few of my recent works. I actually departed from my usual fields of images or textile crafts (in my case wearable items/fashion) to create something else. Fiber art?

This, I call "Monument" and I of course use my own images (printed on transparent paper from Antalis). I used organic yarns from Ateljé Huskroken, my favourite store, to tie the images to a large branch that I found by accident when I was out with my son.

I got this idea that a monument doesn´t necessarily be of a hard, eternal material, but could be evanescent and brittle, like life itself, and eventually return back to the earth.

Detail of slow creations Monument (2012)

slow creations (2012)

This image I took with my mobile camera. I like the bad technical quality of it... I printed on transparent paper and adorned it with yarns and cosmetics such as lipstick, eye-shadow and nail lacquer. The colours are a bit vulgar, I think. I will get back to the topic of pink (and my relation to it) in a later post...

Dan Svensson of Format made the rear side.

slow creations Now  (2012)

This piece (Now) is crocheted and sewn togehter with different fibers such as silk, linen and cotton. The outer rim is of paper yarn. I put it up using white pins.

slow creations (2012)

In this case I took a picture in my neighboorhood and printed on thick paper with additions af fibers (mostly linen). Dan Svensson of Format made the rear side.

Of these four works, the tree somehow connects to tree as a phenomena. I have a deep connection to the symbol of trees but nevertheless was a bit surprised it showed so distinctly.

Recently, concerning the topic to proceed artistically, I started to learn the basics of digital textile printing at a  fantastic course run by ultra-creative artist and designer Joanna Bodzek. I find digital textile printing very creative and a bit demanding, and I am curious how things will evolve in this field were I have so much to learn!

Inspiration and fascination...

Tata Christiane Couture. Check out his hairdo, too... 

Intriguing fashion/art and fiber projects like the label Tata Christiane Couture by Julie Bourgeois and Hanrigabriel (Berlin) caught my attention in a new post at Wearable Art Blog. This blog usally features nice stuff, some of it is organic/sustainably made or re-using materials.

The label often features crochet and patchwork like in this one:


Tata Christiane Couture: leather patchwork and crochet

 For me, this seems to be a new turn on the age-old crochet technique, a funny and exciting design that surprise us in its material combinations and colours. The designers work with serial and unique pieces, costume design and cooperations in art performances, film, photography and music. Not very surprisingly, they showed in Tokyo this recent summer.

The label says it is "a vision of the street costume, it proposes an absurd and disturbing vision of beauty, with decline, maladjustment, extravagance and immoderation. It plays with the borders of elegance and bad taste, digging up our old memories, recycling the waste of our civilisation, and becoming a monomania, a machination and a monstruous and sublime unique piece." Wow!
Ambiguity is the word.




Abigail Doan´s work-in-progress



Colours! Nice in autumn and always. Not so wearable, but always fascinating and very creative recent work by Abigail Doan features work-in-progress for Vogue in a post in one of her blogs. Also, often check her very active blog ecco*eco!

slow creations goes English...or Swe-nglish

Neck piece (knitting, crochet) from late spring 2011. Linen, buttons from an old loved 60s cardigan from my mother

Yes, my intention is that my blog from now on will be in English (eh...Swe-nglish, I am Swedish). I took this, for me, big decision after having realized that, after all, Swedish is not the biggest language on earth...and as a tribute to my English-speaking readers. I have found that I seem to have some of them/you.

Wrist piece (crochet), summer 2011. Organic cotton, linen and buttons from my grand mother´s old button box

Anyway, some future posts may continue to be in Swedish, if I feel that it is needed. I have the ambition to gradually translate parts of old posts or at least old tags. I hope that my readers will have some patience with me... And any ideas or comments on how to translate certain words are highly appreciated as is, of course, any feed-back!

I will most probably continue to do "slow blogging", e.g. post when I have the time and wish to do so. Ideas are many, time is scarce. Besides working with textile design (much of it eco/organic yarns and fabrics) my time is devoted to taking pictures (and... working, etc...)



From my "Skies" project



My last words today is that some of you may have seen that my favourite yarn shop and creative place Ateljé Huskroken of course also has info in English.




Neck piece (knitted). Organic wool from Ateljé Huskroken, Gotland.
T-shirt by Camilla Norrback, bought at DEM collective, Gothenburg

See you in Autumn! I long for the darkness that is approaching up here in the North...