Jon Fosse

Published 5. januar 2022

2022 TexNet2

First: Happy New Year to everyone! Let us make the best of 2022, Corvid or not!

In 2018 I was invited by Juliette Eckel to become part of the Texnet 2 group.We are an international group of 20 textile artists from Europe, Canada, Australia and USA. For more than 2 years we have been working together on a project, a «textile calendar», communicating on Facebook and getting to know each other better through our work. The result is an extraordinary exhibition with 365 artworks of the sizes 15 x 15, 32 x 15 and 32 x 32. Additionally a second calendar was created by 12 of the artists who did large pieces of 90 x 150 cm for the twelve months. We chose dates and our own theme. My works are all, in one way or another, based on the words of Jon Fosse.

We first exhibited our fabulous project at EPM France, @ European Patchwork &Textile Tour Alasace France in September 2021. In May 2022 our exhibition will be shown at the Nadelwelt in Karlsruhe.

Throughout the year I will present my contribution, first January :

January 7th. «Nothing», 15×15 cm.

Is about a big and white nothing, see nothing hear nothing.

and January 23rd: «The snow that was», 32×32 cm.

About standing under a lamp post watching the snow fall.

It is impossible for me to translate Jon Fosse’s poetry so I will present what triggered my inspiration.

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Published 4. desember 2014

For Galskapen heng i det grøne, og Eplet er raudt utan synd

We have just had another challenge finished with Latitude Quilts. Our theme this time was LETTERING. When the challenge came, I thought this was just my thing. I love letters and writing, and often try to incorporate it in my work. So I looked through my sketchbooks for inspiration, and at once found my quote. It is from a poem by the Norwegian author Jon Fosse and in Norwegian it goes: «For galskapen heng i det grøne, og eplet er raudt utan synd». Translated to English it says something like: «For the madness is hanging in the green, and the apple is red without sinn». I had already a rough idea of how to interpret it, and for a long time, I had wanted to try to embroider lettering in the style of Lorina Bulwer. I had found somewhere on the internet a tutorial of how tom make letters like hers easy, and decided to use it this time.

What colours to use were easy to pick, I needle-turn appliqued the apple, machine quilted the piece simple with free straight lines before I embroidered the lettering and finished it all with some simple hand-stitches. And framed it all with the colour of the apple.

Because the quote is Norwegian, as my native language is, I decided to keep both the text in the quilt and the title in Norwegian.