A collaboration with Frederica Vieira Campos and Henrik Ferrara.
Weaving The Airharp is a performative and interactive instrument which explores movement over time through colour and sound. It investigates how fleeting moments of colour through light inform music and sound and vice versa. The performative aspects of the installation is particularly exploring the relationship between colour derived from Nature, an integral aspect of textile practice and sound and music. Alongside tactility and touch the connection between woven textiles and the harp instrument are many including; movement and temporality, physical form, structure and mathematics.
The colours that me and Frederica intend to translate into musical scores to the sound of the harp instrument are colours shades and hues found in Nature from spices, medicinal plants, berries, leafs, nuts, vegetables, flowers and wine. Both me and Frederica have threads that bind us in Nature as we draw from ecological perspectives in our artistic practises underlying our creative language and expression. It seems more urgent than ever to derive colour from plants and waste from our kitchen, as the Textiles industry alone accounts for much of our pollution. Factories are using heavy toxins to fixate the dyes and heavy chemicals that flow into our seas, killing wildlife and damaging the Earth.
I am eager to travel to India where dyeing with artisans and master dyer's will take place later next year in Jaipur before my residency on Iceland. I would like to work by building bridges and relationships in collaboration with rural communities in and around Jaipur and around Rajashstan in natural dyeing processes