In Thoughts, Together (2022-2023)
Funded by The National Swedish Handicraft Council
In Thoughts, Together serves as the continuation of the project To Be and To Become, exploring the collective memory surrounding the heritage of the Hedared basket. Through a series of conversations with members of the Hedared Village Association, we together unveiled past roots, present-day realities, and future legacies of the village – explored craftsmanship, social progression, and personal destinies – all interconnected via the Hedared basket.
What does the collective remembrance of a local craft heritage look like? Do memories differ from family to family? Person to person? How does such a heritage inform the current self-image of a rural area?
Through this trust-led exchange, my aim was to act as an interpreter, observing and synthesising the conversations. The texts, documents, photographs, and transcripts gathered from each member, comprise a simple collection of stories. Each narrative was translated into imagery, linked to village artefacts, or integrated into my own woven work.
The woven outcomes were presented in the exhibit In Thoughts, Together, hosted by the Craft Association of Southern Sweden (2023), and has since been shown at the Textile Museum of Sweden and MalmöVÄV
The complete body of research will be found as part of the upcoming publication:
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