Textile lyrics, material stories;
the imagerial and the intangible

Through hand tufted tapestries, I present an imagerial space about the creation of the body, the end of its physical existence and a possible continued infinity for the lines of human existence past the borders of human physical life on Earth.

The imagerial is a word I have created deriving from the Swedish word and concept of bildvärld which means a world of imagery. I have not been able to find an equivalent word in English that not only describes an image but in addition captures the intangible information concerning an extensive space created by an artist that spans beyond the borders of their presented images. That said work is in reality fragments drawn from a larger space, albeit imagined or perceived. I refer to examples of artists that I believe encompasses the imagerial, i.e. Nina Bondeson, Björk and Italo Calvino. The word imagerial holds the notion that in my practice I draw my imagery from an extensive (in my case, imagined) space when I create my work to tell stories. 

I look to other artists' ways of storytelling in order to enhance my own. Visual storytelling as in imagery, audial storytelling as in music and material storytelling. Tufting is for me a forceful technique that is generous with its painting-like possibilities. A finished tufted tapestry also has a bodily aspect of heaviness that is built up by hundreds of innumerable strands of yarn, as cells make the body. This is my way of shaping my storytelling and making through Textile lyrics, material stories; the imagerial and the intangible.