Weaving

The art of weaving has been an integral part of my artistic practice since years. After hoarding fabric scraps and pieces I finally found a way to "upcycle" them into an artistic, intuitive and wonderful organic mess.

Trashflow

The textile industry is one of the biggest polluters in the world. Recycling is often difficult or too expensive which leads to the waste ending up on landfill sites. The project “trashflow” is a 2.7 x 1.2 m big handwoven tapestry. It contains fabric scraps, cables, trashbags and other found objects that would have been thrown away.

Flow/Melt

Weaving feels organic and intutive. The strips and the yarn wind around each other like plants. Many pieces, just like Flow/Melt are inspired by nature. This tapestry shows different layers of growing and dead material at the same time. It addresses climate change, the melting of glaciers and how everything is intertwined.

100 x 80 cm

rudimentary paper

This project explores paper as an alternative material in woven pieces. The paper was hereby cut into slices and knotted/glued together and carefully woven into a warp system. One piece uses thin cotton warp threads, the other consists of a paper system. By transforming rudimentary (redundant) materials into a piece of textile that could eventually be integrated into a product, it elevates said material or waste and brings it back to function as something useful.