“The process is an important part of my projects and the craft behind means everything.”
I work from everywhere. Here I’m in Sweden starting up the loom to work on Dark Matter. Working on the loom. Knitting in Christian’s chair. Small knitted pieces that I am going to mix with other woven pieces. It takes a lot of samples to do a project. …and it takes a lot of mistakes too… Sometimes I use the backside. Embroidering for Dark Matter. Dyeing thread for the loom. The loom. Slowly putting the pieces together at The Danish Art Workshops. This gobelin is 400 x 250 cm. The dog belongs to Cathrine Raben Davidsen. My husband Christian is building frames for Dark Matter. He is working in the basement of our house. Same frame but in different sizes. The big frame for Mørkt Stof needs to be made in our Living Room – the basement is too small. Finishing Mørkt Stof on the floor. Adding some final pieces at Horsens Art Museum. Mørkt Stof from Dark Matter at Horsens Art Museum 2019. Fitting with Birgitte. A lot of samples in the making. In my cave at the 3rd floor of our house. I love using leftovers. Building up shape. The paper patterns for The Queen of No Man’s Land. Preparing fabrics. It is cotton. “Come and cut with me” – workshop. Workshop and beers. Mini fringes in different color. Adding fringes one by one. I love my machine. This is my fur machine. The inside without lining. The lining. Sketch of Anubis masks. Profile. Clay model in progress. Clay model for paper mâché masks. The early start with the paper mâché. My man! The shape is almost there. Now painting. Everytime the sun is shining we strike to work outside. Hello! Painting the Anubis body. Body parts. The Queen of No Man’s Land at Maison du Danemark, 2014. Sketching on a new project. The selected sketch for Only Angels Have Wings and Björk dress. Björk has seen this dress from Only Angels Have Wings and want one for her Vulnicura Tour, 2015. Björk’s body, 2015. The dummy is ready for draping. Paper patterns for Björk dress. The dress is made of recycled fur. Here Thea from Saga is opening a vintage coat. The backside of the dress. Printing foil on fur. Mink with foil. Sewing fur pieces on silk. Handmade labels. It’s done. Finished Björk dress before shipping. Dress for Emmelie de Forest, Eurovision, 2014. Always remember to have a good working position! Gluing small pieces of plastic straw on the mannequin body. Blooming. Finished backs. Detail. Only Angels Have Wings from at Shapes of Fashion, Textilmuseet Borås, 2016. Only Angels Have Wings at Martin Asbæk Gallery, 2014. Only Angels Have Wings from at Shapes of Fashion, Textilmuseet Borås, 2016. I want to make a dress with same look at the children. It needs to be flexible. In progress. Lace of painted and printed silk is cut by hand. More mink with printed foil. I am going to make a dress of rivets. Shoes! No prefabrication here. Straw shoes. Lace shoes. Always a lot of body parts here. I am going to make androids for the dresses, but they need new feet to fit the shoes. I want to give them flexible joints. Still need to fix the heads. Now I’m painting all the body parts. The androids without the dresses. Going to Maison du Danemark, 2015. Only Angels Have Wings at Horsens Art Museum, 2014. Only Angels Have Wings at Martin Asbæk Gallery, 2014. The white straw android is a part of the permanent exhibition, Danish Design Now at Designmuseum Danmark. The first time I worked with straws was in Sukker, Øksnehallen, 2008. Photo by Nicky de Silva, Schön! #5, 2010. In 2011 I am invited by Designmuseum Danmark to make a modern interpretation of rococo. It is the first time I am working with straws for dresses. All straws are cut and sewn on one by one. The straw dress from The Dance of the Deaf and Dumb Eye. Here going to Maison du Danemark in Paris, 2015. The mannequin is without wig during transportation. The dolls are going to wear big wigs with chimpanzees inside. Hands and feet in paper mâché. See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil. Painting. Heads for wigs when they are not on the dolls. Sewing the wigs. Photo by Alastair Philip Wiper. The Dance of the Deaf and Dumb Eye at Sven-Harry’s Konstmuseum, Stockholm 2020. Photo by Pelle Bergström. In the warehouse. In 2011 I am at The Danish Art Workshops working on Stone of Man from Slowly Seeping Through My Hands. Some of the mannequins. With Stone of Man I am making my interpretation of the Sisyphus rock and is making a skeleton for it. The center of the skeleton. Going to Horsens Art Museum, 2011. The skeleton. Still some bodies to be added and some paint to be painted. Stone of Man from Slowly Seeping Through My Hands, Horsens Art Museum, 2011.
