THEME: Shadows, Echoes, Memories, Traces, Fragments, Journeys.
INSPIRATION: Boro – Japanese patchwork textiles made from cotton, primarily shades of indigo blue, also browns, blacks and greys – but a very limited palette. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, cotton was expensive in Northern Japan. The rural people in the north could not afford to buy it, and the climate was too cold to grow it. Instead, they took the used cotton items from the more affluent south when they were recycled. The cotton fabrics were reconstructed into patchwork quilts and coats and passed down from generation to generation, often added to by the next family member – new patches as the previous ones wore out. The resulting textile pieces became a journey through time and place, embodying the fabric of life.
Memories – Even paper holds a memory. “When you fold a piece of paper, the plant fibres along the crease will be pushed permanently into the plastic region of their integrity and will reach a fracture point at the actual angle of the fold. The fold becomes a structural failure, and cannot be reversed, as the fibres cannot regain their original integrity. As a result of this structural failure, the paper will remember this fold forever, no matter how hard you try to flatten it back out”.
NOTE: The hand-made paper is made from denim jeans in accordance with the concept of recycling that created Japanese Boro
“Memories are the key, not to the past, but to the future.”
Corrie Ten Boom
“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
“We weave our lives out of opportunity
And stitches of chances
Nobody wants a future full of holes.”
Alice Feeney – Rock, Paper, Scissors
