BEGINNING MIDDLE AND

• Main Author: Samuelsson, Kajsa
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Konstfack, Textil 2019
• Subjects: Craft; Fold; Incompleteness; Modularity; Pattern; Resist dyeing; Soft; Textile; Färgning; Konsthantverk; Mjuk; Modul; Mönster; Ofärdigt; Textil; Veck; Design; Visual Arts; Bildkonst
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6897

BEGINNING MIDDLE AND is a project that takes a textile approach to explore repeated pattern and the ongoing. This paper, being a part of this project, is describing and discussing the potentiality of using notions such as softness, folds and ongoingness to widen the views on what a craft practice can be and do. This raises questions about the relevancy of ideas such as finished and the one piece, in a craft context. Based on the properties of a resist dyeing technique, the paper puts the fold in relation to pattern and modularity. It wants to discuss what a fold is and how ideas of folding and unfolding could engage with process based artistic work. Constantly shifting between perspectives and looking for overlaps, the text then touches upon paradoxes and dilemmas found when unfolding the systems and the unruliness that together form the work. Looking at acts of unfinishing, it tries to understand the fascination and the fear that is triggered by incompleteness. The beginning is a wish to enhance the complexity of my craft practice, and to expand the understanding of it. But realizing the difficulties in doing so, the reasoning eventually ends up at the challenging task to break free from your own habits, trying to find a new beginning.