In what way can weaving techniques and principles be applied to or combined with materials other than thread, specifically negatives?
What does doing so reveal about the material properties of negatives and thread/textile?
How can I use weaving to gain a more expansive understanding of a material?
With these material experiments, I aim to deepen my relationship as a maker to the materials I use and interact with. For a long time, in my artistic practice, I‘ve been intrigued by combining different materials and mediums, such as writing and photography, images and embroidery, or images and punch-needled textile pieces. In the past, these combinations and my choice of materials were motivated by the subject matter of a project, and less by the material qualities themselves. Through this project, I want to turn this around: let the material define the project instead of letting the project define the material. What can this approach reveal about the material specificities of the media I use, namely, photography (in this case, negatives) and textile? How do they interact with each other, and what kind of relationship exists between the different materials? What is my relationship to them, and how do I change the relationship between the materials by working with/on them? What can I learn from my materials, and what can they learn from each other?