Spår - Människan och det textila skalet

Abstract

The textile body - the garment - is like an extension of the human being. Our garments hold stories, both personal and universal. They do this without our physical bodies being present, like a second layer of skin garments are textile shells –like physical memories that remain even when a person has left the room. Even when someone dies they remain present, as traces left behind. "Traces" is a hands-on processing of material, but most of all, an emotional processing of loss. Having to deal with the grief of missing people who have been lost with the passing of time is something that concerns us all. In every way possible we try tomark and capture time, as have I. With the use of stitches I have been marking fabric, linking garments together with thread. The stitches are like memories of the movements of the hand, traces of time that has gone by.