A collaboration with Frederica Vieira Campos and Henrik Ferrara
I wanted to create a sound book in collaboration with Frederica Vieira Campos harpist whom I met at the Royal College of Art during my time there. She was a student at the Royal College of Music at the time. Things have changed since and we have both moved from London but we intend to meet in Porto, Portugal and have an exhibition in the summer of 2025. The sound book that I envision will have one original hardcopy and will be published online. I wanted to weave the North Atlantic Ocean and the landscape on Iceland as it seams to me that the thread that binds us is Nature as we both draw from ecological perspectives in our artistic practises underlying our creative language and expression. During my residency on Iceland in the summer of 2025 the Icelandic Textile Centre is in an old woman’s college overlooking the North Atlantic Ocean where I will take one photograph every day of the landscape with a total of 90 photographs. The relationship between colour and music is not a calculated mathematical equation. Music and colour intertwine by pure intuition. As a painter may intuitively know how to paint music in its translation something is left on the spiritual dimension to its own mystery. The mystery is left unspoken yet a clear thread bind music and colour together through bridges. This book does not intend to give you a mathematical definition of the harp instrument as such yet weaving and music both delve deep into mathematics but the outcome a sensory experience. The colours that we intend to translate into musical scores are colours found in Nature from spices, medicinal plants, berries, leafs, nuts, vegetables, flowers and wine with the following plates;
The 90 plates in this book will be woven on a harness analogue jacquard loom of the North Atlantic Ocean and the lands bordering the sea photographed on Iceland. The musical drawings of the North Atlantic Ocean are laced with silver plated conductive thread which is conductive making it possible to cross-pollinate music, textiles and computational arts. The physical computing is supported and executed by Henrik Ferrara.