LABOUR OF LOVE

Let’s go to the beach carpet was supposed to be send in to an international carpet award. It got cancelled, after the submission was done, due to the pandemic. Hours of work cancelled.

So is the effort of being not accepted and every time you receive a no. One can’t take it personal, as many apply and few make the cut in curated shows. It is an art keeping a strong mind and keeping emotions out of it as it is simply a working routine in an artist life. The call for this campaign was a opportunity for me to give you an Insight into the work beyond. My work follows design principles (i am trained after the bauhaus design movement principles) and expressing myself in that language is as important for me as my work. It is connected. I feel a huge responsibility as a form giver, (maker, Gestalter, designer ) to be mindful about the materials, the energy and the resources used. I kind of expect an aware and responsible attitude towards those design shaping elements today in all we consume.

We are at a critical point in the age of mankind on this planet, climate crisis needs to be aknowledged, respected and implemented. Being aware is a good first step, and initiatives like this campain is a brilliant idea to Get to know the makers. We are behind the scenes, off the grid, independent, invisible, silent and ja, in our workshops. To put a price tag to our products is somewhat difficult as those price calculations will make that the end price is making us non competitive. Hours of work and the ethics of it, make it rather a labor of love.

Let`s got to the beach, is handwoven on a floor flatweave loom. The warp is a single ply wool yarn, as a weft I used locally sourced and manufactured wool rye yarn. To obtain a textured and tactile surface with therapeutic purpose, I added paper yarn. The colorfade use of colours, blue and wool offwhite, create the transition from ocean to beach, its shoreline. I as well used the dip dye technique to obtain different blue shades within the yarn, just like the ocean.