Structures of a depiction which I no longer remember

• Main Author: Beckman, Katja
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Konstfack, Textil 2016
• Subjects: Tapestry; Textile; Craft; Yellow
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5724

I'll make a big, yellow tapestry. In the project I'll examine textures and surfaces in a monumental tapestry, and the translation of an image into a tapestry through reliefs and materials. I'm a tapestry weaver, and in this project I'll work with structures and the sculptural aspect of weaving in an abstract tapestry. My aim for my textiles in general is to give the viewer a sublime feeling when they meet my work. In an extended scene this is a textile version of a photography. When I look at something for a long amount of time, it'll turn into structures, then the image itself is not so important anymore but the memory of it. This is a tapestry where I have turned this memories into structures in textile material. This project is a research in many various woven structures and techniques, which is arranged intuitively. It doesn't have a specific message but to re-create the sense of many and complex feelings. The different structures portrays the process of memories, like solitude, fears, tenderness, abstraction/imagination and concrete reality. This tapestry is the result of many experiments with the form and structure.