TAPESTRY

First of all I work with tapestries and textiles. Often, my tapestries are kept in the weavingframe of steel and placed freestanding on the floor when exhibited, this to point out the workprocess and history that lies behind the work. Tapestries have a history of storytelling made up by sequences, such as comics are built up today. Tapestry is also sequentially through the weaving technique, where weft thread goes in one direction and is built sequence by sequence.

For me tapestry is linked to the 1970`s and the fight for equal rights for men and women. This has been important in my choosing of the tapestry as my medium. I love the way I can get several layers of meaning in my works because of this, and also by using the popular culture we are surrounded by as motifs. The fast becomes slow in the tapestry- because of the time it took to build it up.

I try to focus  on gender, aftermaths of trauma, and relational balances of power in my works. Now, 2021, I am working on a large project on women in literature, in the voice of some favourite male authors.

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At Tøyen Deichman, I did this  workshop in weaving, for children, in cartoonlike colors and shapes:

SKRIBENT/ LYRICS/ helpful LYRICS

I got my first book to write in from my grandma Randi when I was nine. I wrote and drew my whole youth through. Somewhere on the road from there I became a secret writer. The place I was this, a gerilja-writer, was in Trøndelag where I grew up. My family moved there when I was five years old, we lived for many years with this: a pottery. I made small busts of clay, loved to sew, draw faces, and wrote alot- also letters around the world:). This place where I grew up was surrounded by sea, open fields, and open doors.

So I have been writing under pseudonyms/alters or anonymously from I was very young. On the two photoes above: I have them here because I want to show I wrote with love for places and the people in them.

From I was thirteen I have had a passion for music and songlyrics.  There too I have had my secret ways of bringing them to life. Six-teen was my age the first time my lyrics were in use. Back then being creative was something mostly embraced. 

I still write. My texts vary from song/poplyrics and scripts to textcollages. I include my lyrics in my artproject. Some of my writings and thoughts are published on this website under lyrics, as this page was my online publishing-project: u.t.t.e.r.a.n.c.e.s : e.g my short texts, pamflets and lyrics on life events and aftermaths. This year, 2022, I still write poems, but I dont publish them often- and I dont want them be in use, but I would if you let me be with my name in your project.

I also write about love, pets and nature, and sometimes people that stand out by their choices.

I like the small and strange and melancollic,  in lyrics, music and in life.

Though randomly writing and sending and still being a textninja, I dont send(email..) lyrics away anymore, as I once did. 

On the use of pseudonyms Id not recommend that to anyone, though doing this would leave you without much fuzz, but anonymity   could give people the oppurtunity to exploit you. Its sad but true.