It takes about 0.125 seconds to press the shutter. 

It takes about 3 hours to develop, stop, fix, wash, and dry the bnw film.

It takes about a day to do testing on the loom.

It takes about a week to weave a tapestry.

It takes a lifetime to store our memories. 

Farewell is a family photo series that’s being woven into textiles. The photos were taken on the last family trip before I came to Norway. As my father lit up his cigarette and my grandma walked away in a tunnel, the back of my mind sensed that they were already far away, even though at the moment we were not apart. Photography captures fleeting moments, while threads allow those memories back in my hands, remaining intimate. 

We are narrative selves, creating meaning in our lives through narration. Narrative discourse connects heavily with textile metaphors: we ‘weave stories’, ‘spin yarns’, and ‘embroider the truth’. Words and threads, Text and textile, the etymological roots become evidence of how we generate metaphorical concepts through automatic responses to everyday bodily experiences and interactions with textiles. The tacit narrative property makes textiles an embodied carrier for storytelling, therefore ‘pictures and words, imagery and narrativity…interwoven in one and the same semiotic fabric of meaning.' The manifold layers of the cultural fabric that weaves together individuals, groups, and society.

The work discusses the intimate relationship between fabric and personal memories, the artist believes, that the tactile experience and the narrative nature that the textile carries gives the storytelling imagery a sense of belonging.